oh ye weather gods

[rynnor]

Pretty bad up in Scotland with all trains stopped and 20,000 people without power due to the storm. Worse could come tonight down south with the wind plus a high tide expected to produce a storm surge over 6 feet above normal - lots of flooding expected along Essex/Suffolk/Norfolk coast. 6500 without power in N Ireland.

 

[old.user4556]

I can confirm it's pretty bad up here, the wind is very strong indeed. Trees, satellite dishes, roofs blown off etc.

I've just had a BBC alert to my phone that a lorry has overturned onto two cards and killed the driver..... just up the road from my house!

 

[Aoami]

I am actually being kept awake by the wind. Hopefully the trains will be off tomorrow so I can work from home.

 

[Poag]

Drove into work this morning up near maidstone. Roads are completly flooded already. Brief look at the Medway looks fairly high, as do some of the smaller rivers around the area.

Gonna be a fun weekend!

 

[rynnor]

Drove into work this morning up near maidstone. Roads are completly flooded already. Brief look at the Medway looks fairly high, as do some of the smaller rivers around the area.

Gonna be a fun weekend!

Long range weather forecast shows this continuing for the next month so I wonder how bad it will get?

 

[Poag]

Long range weather forecast shows this continuing for the next month so I wonder how bad it will get?

Donno, grounds absolutely sodden already, its blowing a gale at work atm.

Someone spills a tea cup it'll run right into the river......

Fortunately i live on the side of a hill, the medway flood plain is however at the bottom of said hill

 

[Chilly]

At least the aquifers will get a decent feed.

 

[Raven]

Flood warnings for my village. It won't flood though, it hasn't flooded in living memory. The posh bit nearby where the cunts live will flood though because stupid people built houses on fields that flood when the river bursts its banks. My Grandad told them all about the floods they can expect when they were doing the consultation, it flooded the year after they built them and it will continue to flood, hilarious really.

 

[Chilly]

Flood warnings for my village. It won't flood though, it hasn't flooded in living memory. The posh bit nearby where the cunts live will flood though because stupid people built houses on fields that flood when the river bursts its banks. My Grandad told them all about the floods they can expect when they were doing the consultation, it flooded the year after they built them and it will continue to flood, hilarious really.

Councils are historically blind to flood warnings and just want the increase in council tax. Same story all over the Oxford flood plains. Best places to live are near the Churches, they are invariably on high ground with excellent foundations. The clergy back in the day had the power to pick all the best land to build on.

 

[Poag]

Just after we moved in we got a notice through the post about a new village they are going to build near the medway over the next 2 years. Right on the banks. The fields its going to be in are currently flooded.....


They are putting in a nice new road tho and a bridge which may shorten my journey to work from 25 mins to 5 mins

 

[Chilly]

The insurance companies tend to be the counterbalance to reckless building as they start charging fortunes to insure.

 

[Chilly]

Cos you wont get a mortgage on an uninsurable property. The developers know this and will do the bare minimum to satisfy the insurers, leaving people with properties that flood every few years and significantly every decade or two, which to most people would be outrageous.

 

[rynnor]

Cos you wont get a mortgage on an uninsurable property. The developers know this and will do the bare minimum to satisfy the insurers, leaving people with properties that flood every few years and significantly every decade or two, which to most people would be outrageous.

Greed and bungs to the planners is why we are where we are in regards to regularly flooded properties - its a little scandal bubbling away beneath the radar.

You still have to be stupid enough to buy one though - if nobody bought them they wouldn't keep building em.

 

[Chilly]

Greed and bungs to the planners is why we are where we are in regards to regularly flooded properties - its a little scandal bubbling away beneath the radar.

You still have to be stupid enough to buy one though - if nobody bought them they wouldn't keep building em.

Lack of supply means people are desperate for cheap homes. Buyers have SO little control these days it's disgusting. I'm dreading buying my first house. My plan is to get rich enough and just buy it for cash and not fuck around with any of the standard shite.

 

[DaGaffer]

Lack of supply means people are desperate for cheap homes. Buyers have SO little control these days it's disgusting. I'm dreading buying my first house. My plan is to get rich enough and just buy it for cash and not fuck around with any of the standard shite.

Heh, good luck with that.

 

[Bahumat]

Councils are historically blind to flood warnings and just want the increase in council tax. Same story all over the Oxford flood plains. Best places to live are near the Churches, they are invariably on high ground with excellent foundations. The clergy back in the day had the power to pick all the best land to build on.

Isn't there some sort of church renovation bullshit tax they can impose now. Something about the previous agreement expired so they can force you to pay for repairs

 

[Bahumat]

Oh this applies to people who live close to the church

 

[rynnor]

Glad I'm not in Canada or New York at the moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25592058

Record cold temperatures in parts of Canada - I'll stick with our warm but wet Jan thanks.

 

[Deebs]

Glad I'm not in Canada or New York at the moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25592058

Record cold temperatures in parts of Canada - I'll stick with our warm but wet Jan thanks.

Agree they are cold, they are used to this, last time temps hit this low was 20 years ago.

 

[DaGaffer]

Glad I'm not in Canada or New York at the moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25592058

Record cold temperatures in parts of Canada - I'll stick with our warm but wet Jan thanks.

I was working in Montreal for a month when it stayed at-20 the whole time. Fucking horrible but they're geared up for it. The UK would stop completely.

 

[TdC]

I was working in Montreal for a month when it stayed at-20 the whole time. Fucking horrible but they're geared up for it. The UK would stop completely.

indeed...there's a whole range of new clothing and stuff for those sustained low temps. you can even do things to your house/windows/etc that I'd never heard of until I visited some cold climes o_0

 

[rynnor]

I was working in Montreal for a month when it stayed at-20 the whole time. Fucking horrible but they're geared up for it. The UK would stop completely.

- 38 C in Quebec though I mean ouch! Presumably everyone gets into their car in their garage and drives everywhere?

 

[DaGaffer]

- 38 C in Quebec though I mean ouch! Presumably everyone gets into their car in their garage and drives everywhere?

In Montreal you can walk around a lot of downtown underground

 

[old.Tohtori]

-40C, in Finland for example, means you wear a hat and a scarf if you're chilly

 

[rynnor]

-40C, in Finland for example, means you wear a hat and a scarf if you're chilly

Apparently the record cold for Finnish Lapland is -37.9.

 

[TdC]

it's sunny as fuck and I have the windows in my living room open. does....not....compute

 

[caLLous]

We've had a very nice winter here tbh. Most of November was atrocious - wet and cold - but 2014 has been very mild (if still wet). February here is usually the trough where temperatures are concerned - single digits (plus or minus) and snow - but it was 15 or 16 today with a couple of showers. If this is our winter over and done with then I'm a very happy bunny.

 

[Aoami]

Fuck off callous.

 

[fettoken]

Around 15 degrees here in Stockholm, sunny, springtime weather. Almost feeling sorry for you UK peeps that got our winter this year. We had really mild until after December when some of it hit, but really mild until now, all snow is gone.

 

[Chilly]

Isn't there some sort of church renovation bullshit tax they can impose now. Something about the previous agreement expired so they can force you to pay for repairs

Yeah, certain properties near Churches have very old obligations to contribute to the "roof fund". Depends on the particular church and so on and at some point someone will take the CoE to court and get the whole fucking scam destroyed.