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The Valley to flood?

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  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,191
    You have spilt ribena on a map havent you
  • i think if you spit on the pitch it would flood with the lack of drainage
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,842
    Only if the Barrier is overtopped. If you live along the Thames going down towards the coast, by the Medway, or Kent coast, it'll be worth checking the latest news, as tonight and tomorrow look like it'll be pretty nasty on the Thames/Medway with the storm coming down the North Sea
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,379
    Why is that little arm of water reaching out across the Woolwich road to the Valley alone?

    I reckon the flood is all part of a cunning plan to make us leave the Valley for a ground upriver from the Thames Barrier

    : - )
  • We're right on the creek edge and the Swale is on red alert. Still at least the roof was mended in time for us to sit on it!
  • richie8
    richie8 Posts: 1,205
    Must be a spanner in the flood department as a bit of wishful thinking!
  • Growing up in Belvedere when the Barrier was being built always puzzled me - so the Barrier would protect central London, but where would all that water go? Back out to flood SE2 and Kent, surely...
  • I'll tell you on Saturday Weegie! Getting bombarded with flood alerts now, must get my Charlton scarves to higher ground.
  • Keep safe, SA, and anyone else affected...

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  • Growing up in Belvedere when the Barrier was being built always puzzled me - so the Barrier would protect central London, but where would all that water go? Back out to flood SE2 and Kent, surely...

    i presume a lot of that area is a flood plain.
    I never understand how they get planning permission, I noticed there are new blocks of flats (been there a couple of years now i guess) called the belvedere park on the road to Erith. cheap and affordable with a small deposit to get hold of one but they are smack bang in the middle of a flood plain.

    god knows what will happen to Thamesmead if it flooded.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,423

    Growing up in Belvedere when the Barrier was being built always puzzled me - so the Barrier would protect central London, but where would all that water go? Back out to flood SE2 and Kent, surely...

    i presume a lot of that area is a flood plain.
    I never understand how they get planning permission, I noticed there are new blocks of flats (been there a couple of years now i guess) called the belvedere park on the road to Erith. cheap and affordable with a small deposit to get hold of one but they are smack bang in the middle of a flood plain.

    god knows what will happen to Thamesmead if it flooded.
    Thamesmead would become a place of legend, like Atlantis .. and .. surely the valley is too high above river level to be in danger unless there is a tide of Tsunami proportions
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,336
    I must say I was quite shocked when I first saw theThames barrier. I automatically thought that it would be built along the South bank so the flood would go north.
  • F-Blocker
    F-Blocker Posts: 3,409

    Why is that little arm of water reaching out across the Woolwich road to the Valley alone?

    I reckon the flood is all part of a cunning plan to make us leave the Valley for a ground upriver from the Thames Barrier

    : - )

    That'll be because of the pathway & foot tunnel under the railway. The rest of the area is partly protected by the railway embankment.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,842
    You struggle to get planning permission for flats now, unless you build the car park on the ground floor and design it to flood
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,501
    Some high volume pumps being moved into Kent from other not affected Fire Services, so if it does come then hopefully it will get dealt with quickly.
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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,806
    My first thought was this is nosense, then I realised on that map that the flooding seems to have gone out of its way to find the Valley, which given our recent luck, suddenly makes it plausible.
  • Safe as houses at the moment ;-)

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  • Not a problem for The Valley, it has its own flood defence system.

    The potholes in the west stand car park.
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  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    If the worst happens, will the Donny squad come down to help with the clean up?
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,704
    I believe that the Toolbox is more likely to flood than The Valley, as Bermondsey is flatter and The Valley is at least a bit uphill.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,879
    edited December 2013
    Apparently this is what London would have looked like last week if the Thames barrier was never built.


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    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/09/london-flooding-thames-barrier-picture_n_4411086.html?utm_hp_ref=uk#comments
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,005
    Looks like Millwall, West Ham, Orient and the Olympic Stadium all wiped out. We need to brick up Ransom Walk.
  • Here's what it looked like just down our road because the Thames barrier was built.


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