Storm Ciaran : All OK

[Bike Breaker]

In Hull (yes I know what people think of the place) we've had more rain than usual over the last few weeks so the ground is squelchy. A few places have had local flooding but nothing like back 16 years ago. Regarding wind or gales, we're experiencing a mild breeze with gusts in the mid 20s mph.
Today, we have bright sunshine.

When mother in law lived near you (she's gone posh and moved to Beverley) the water was gently lapping at her door step 16 years ago

The same happened to me. In those days I used my little Noddy bike to travel the 5½ miles to work. The rain came down all day so I was riding home through flooded roads. I couldn't stop anywhere because my exhaust pipe, half my engine and my feet, were under water which I couldn't risk coming back up the pipes. Although it is water cooled, the poor little thing doesn't work too well when the water gets into the cylinders. People were pointing and laughing at me ( a common event anyway ) as I gently glided past, swan-like. Really, the boot should have been on the other foot, because I was still progressing while they were in cars that were stuck in the floods.
Talking of boots, that was the day I discovered that waterproof boots aren't waterproof when the depth of the water is greater then the height of the boot.
I rode down my street fearing the worst but, like your m-i-l, I was fortunate that the the level reached the doorstep but no higher. My garden was like a lake, though.

[Bike Breaker]

In Hull (yes I know what people think of the place) we've had more rain than usual over the last few weeks so the ground is squelchy. A few places have had local flooding but nothing like back 16 years ago. Regarding wind or gales, we're experiencing a mild breeze with gusts in the mid 20s mph.
Today, we have bright sunshine.

When mother in law lived near you (she's gone posh and moved to Beverley) the water was gently lapping at her door step 16 years ago

She packed up the truck and she moved to Beverley?

If you have any sense you'll brook no truck with a lass from Hull.

[Count Steer]

I was going to start a new thread but, since this is here....

Anyone live on a flood plain? It looks like UK insurers have decided it's going to get wetter in the UK. At the moment, compared with ie Oz or USA, flood risk insurance is pretty cheap because of our reinsurance market (simply put, the insurance companies take a little slice of everyone's home insurance and bung it with a reinsurer like Swiss Re to subsidise the costs of flood specific insurance. So the insurers take out insurance). They reckon that model is going to stop working so I guess the reinsurer won't take the risk.

In some places in the USA/Oz it costs as much as the mortgage for insurance so people don't pay/house prices in seriously threatened areas plummet/poor folk move in etc etc.

Don't panic! They're changing the 'rules' in 2039....just don't buy in a flood risk area if you expect to be around then or expect to sell in the run up to it.

Précis: Insurance industry thinks it's going to get wetter.

[Horse]

Sis-i-Law & husband bought the field next to their house. 5 acres, stream.

Actually a water meadow. Which they 'knew' but didn't understand until one morning after heavy rain.

[Count Steer]

Sis-i-Law & husband bought the field next to their house. 5 acres, stream.

Actually a water meadow. Which they 'knew' but didn't understand until one morning after heavy rain.

Ah well, at least they can use it to mitigate against the rising tide to protect their house.

[Horse]

Sis-i-Law & husband bought the field next to their house. 5 acres, stream.

Actually a water meadow. Which they 'knew' but didn't understand until one morning after heavy rain.

Ah well, at least they can use it to mitigate against the rising tide to protect their house.

It certainly affected subsequent house-hunting! Whether from traditional surface flooding or, after the 2013-14 winter, rising groundwater.

[Count Steer]

Sis-i-Law & husband bought the field next to their house. 5 acres, stream.

Actually a water meadow. Which they 'knew' but didn't understand until one morning after heavy rain.

Ah well, at least they can use it to mitigate against the rising tide to protect their house.

It certainly affected subsequent house-hunting! Whether from traditional surface flooding or, after the 2013-14 winter, rising groundwater.

Ah well, if the response on here is anything to go by, there's nothing to be done about it. It's the fault of China, India, USA, normal cycles etc. Nuffink to do wiv us guv.

[Cousin Jack]

Ah well, at least they can use it to mitigate against the rising tide to protect their house.

It certainly affected subsequent house-hunting! Whether from traditional surface flooding or, after the 2013-14 winter, rising groundwater.

Ah well, if the response on here is anything to go by, there's nothing to be done about it. It's the fault of China, India, USA, normal cycles etc. Nuffink to do wiv us guv.

Nuffink to do with anyone, except the prats in Planning Departments that allowed housebuilding on flood plains. If you asked you Grandad he would have told you that, back in the day, the water was 3 foot deep. Well woopee do, it is 3 foot deep again, except it is now in your lounge rather than just in the fields down by the river.

[Horse]

Nuffink to do with anyone, except the prats in Planning Departments that allowed housebuilding on flood plains.

Check the name of the housing estate.

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[Horse]

Nuffink to do with anyone, except the prats in Planning Departments that allowed housebuilding on flood plains.

Check the name of the housing estate.

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And guess where there's flooding ....