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Floods

Bexleyheath_Red
Bexleyheath_Red Posts: 547
edited July 2007 in Not Sports Related
My garage has 3 inches of water in it, Now trying to protect my house !!!!!

Anyone else being flooded as we speak ?
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  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,219
    Not me but a friend has 6 inches of water in her kitchen. very bad.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
    christ on a bike, not seen rain like this before !!

    just hope when i get home the roof has done what its paid to do....
  • Bexleyheath_Red
    Bexleyheath_Red Posts: 547
    It's because all these people have paving on their front gardens. I have mainly grass in mine.

    Anyone know if it's going to stop ?
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,219
    we are due heavy rain for 24 hours... sorry.

    what road do you live in?
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
    good luck mate, have visions of you cartoon-style doing windmills with buckets...
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,620
    edited July 2007
    just had a ridiculous downpour.road at the front is a stream at the moment. i have just benn running around the house like steptoe and son with pots and pans as our upstairs gutter decided the best way to get rid of the water was through the roof. anyone know a good builder?
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    edited July 2007
    [cite]Posted By: Bexleyheath_Red[/cite]I have mainly grass in mine

    You shouldnt have said that!! If you see a strange looking bearded ginger bloke hanging around the front, you'll know its MCS ;-)
  • Red Riding Hoodie
    Red Riding Hoodie Posts: 426
    Croydon and Wimbledon flooded apparently
  • Bexleyheath_Red
    Bexleyheath_Red Posts: 547
    I see white sky now. and some old ladie opposite me is going a bit mad, she must've bough a job lot of sand bag's and is offering everyone one.

    First Avenue, just off Bostall heath
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,103
    Our canteen, here in Welling...Flooded.
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  • Bexleyheath_Red
    Bexleyheath_Red Posts: 547
    Sun is now starting to come out, and rain is disappearing. Bucketed the water out of the garage.

    Comparing it to oop north it aint that bad i suppose.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Where the f**k is Noah?????
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    edited July 2007
    [cite]Posted By: Bexleyheath_Red[/cite]It's because all these people have paving on their front gardens.
    Quite a bit of truth in that.
    www.london.gov.uk/londoner/05nov/

    www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    yay!
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    edited July 2007
    Love the way they don't actually suggest alternatives (till you dig into the links) clear as mud!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    Rain has stopped in Bromley leaving deposits of sand and stones in the street and the end of my road blocked by about 6 inches of water
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    edited July 2007
    [cite]Posted By: razil[/cite]Love the way they don't actually suggest alternatives (till you dig into the links)
    Don't pave over gardens!

    I have gravel driveway - allows water to drain into the ground, looks nicer, sounds nicer and costs less. Plus lawn and garden, there is some paving in the back, but not much, mainly garden - very lush at the moment!.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    edited July 2007
    [cite]Posted By: Salad[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Bexleyheath_Red[/cite]It's because all these people have paving on their front gardens.
    Quite a bit of truth in that.
    www.london.gov.uk/londoner/05nov/

    www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml[/url

    What a load of bollox!
    So what about the 250k houses Gordon is going to build?
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,241
    Little bit of rain and the country goes to the dogs, blah, blah feckin blah.

    Lot's of overtime and weekend call outs for Mr Dicko. Bring it on is what I say.

    Orpington needs a good wash anyway ;-)

    Anyone know what it's like back round Lordswood/Walderslade... Ketters???
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    I'm thinking of gravel, these block ones are so common..
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  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    [cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]What a load of bollox!
    Err no, water has got to go somewhere and if it can't drain into gardens it runs off elsewhere increasing the risk (and magnitude) of flooding.
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    my garage is flooded - got the wife to take loads of pictures so those bastard insurance companies can't give it large and say it didn't rain that hard
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    hmm 22 hyde parks spread over the whole of London, and divided into tiny plots - I still don't think its a major contributor, its just freak weather and our drainage systems can't cope, oh and of course nothing to do with all the building on flood plains that has happened in recent years.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    [cite]Posted By: Salad[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]What a load of bollox!
    Err no, water has got to go somewhere and if it can't drain into gardens it runs off elsewhere increasing the risk (and magnitude) of flooding.
    Obviously, but to blame floods on a few pikey driveways is plain stupid and deflecting the fact that our Victorian drainage system needs updating.
  • Bexleyheath_Red
    Bexleyheath_Red Posts: 547
    Yeah all those industrial sites near thamesmead and erith marshes will sink one day.

    There own fault for building on marshes
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    [cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]Obviously, but to blame floods on a few pikey driveways is plain stupid and deflecting the fact that our Victorian drainage system needs updating.
    Not necessarily floods per se, but the risk and magnitude of the floods is obviously greater because of the ever increasing paving over of gardens.
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    [cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Salad[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: DJ Davey Dave[/cite]What a load of bollox!
    Err no, water has got to go somewhere and if it can't drain into gardens it runs off elsewhere increasing the risk (and magnitude) of flooding.
    Obviously, but to blame floods on a few pikey driveways is plain stupid and deflecting the fact that our Victorian drainage system needs updating.

    I think what they're saying is its a combination of the old drainage system, coupled with less grass to soak up the rain and that the increase in water being put into the drainage system is too much for an already antequated system to cope with
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,116
    Had to walk down to the barbers, got absolutely soaked, deffinately the wrong day to wear a light grey suit.
  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    [cite]Posted By: Stu of SE7[/cite]Had to walk down to the barbers, got absolutely soaked, deffinately the wrong day to wear a light grey suit.

    lol
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    nothing to do with overdevelopment either, building on every square inch of land, na lets blame it on driveways..

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