The floods

**InsaneApache** · 07-23-2007, 10:11

As you may be aware, there has been severe flooding in parts on the UK for a month now. Over the weekend the midlands and south west joined the 'soggy' club instituted by Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in late June.

Even though the government were warned about a disastrous flood, they did little to prepare and didn't appear to understand the gravity of the situation.

Over a third of a million people have no access to drinking water. Hundreds of thousands have been forced out of their homes. In Hull 30, 000 people still living in sports centers and temporary accommodation.

But wait! Action time has come at last. Why? Because now the water is moving towards our great metrolops, London.

It might come as a surprise to those who live south of Watford Gap, but we too have flushing lavatories and electricity, televisions and the internet. Even if we do talk like monkeys.

Shortly before 6am last Monday forecasters at the Met Office’s Exeter headquarters e-mailed the Environment Agency with the first warning that “a serious weather event” was likely to hit England on Friday.

With weeks of rain across the country leaving ground sodden and rivers at unseasonably high levels, whichever area bore the brunt of the storm brewing over the Atlantic was likely to face the most severe flooding.

By Wednesday morning the forecasters had narrowed down the expected location to the M4/M5 corridor in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2120927.ece

If Kensington and Chelsea had been under 6 ft. of water, you could bet your last penny more would have been done. Shameful inaction from the government.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 07-23-2007, 10:20

I'm rather ticked off about this as well. Us northern monkeys were flooded, and it was a week before anyone mentioned it down South. The only place were it got any real coverage was on the local news, Look North. Heck, at one point a dam was at risk of bursting, and did you hear about that being main news nationwide? No!

And now a few thousand fields are flooded and some poor Southerners go without water and the news channels won't shut up about it.

**English assassin** · 07-23-2007, 10:56

If Kensington and Chelsea had been under 6 ft. of water, you could bet your last penny more would have been done. Shameful inaction from the government.

What, you mean like building the Thames barrier, for instance? Point taken

And now a few thousand fields are flooded and some poor Southerners go without water and the news channels won't shut up about it

As it happens my brother lives in the worst affected bit of Worcestershire (which to my mind is not the south BTW). Its a bit more than a few fields being flooded.

Anyway, when Hull was flooded that was all over the news, and, come on, HULL !!!

**Husar** · 07-23-2007, 11:14

Well, you could celebrate the end of the nanny-state. I heard it's a bad thing.

**InsaneApache** · 07-23-2007, 11:34

Originally Posted by Husar

Well, you could celebrate the end of the nanny-state. I heard it's a bad thing.

Not quite the same as receiving a fortnightly giro though, is it?

The first duty of a government is the safety of it's population. Unless you live outside of London of course.