Have the floods affected you?

That doesn't surprise me...The guy went through a relationship break up earlier in the year and things like insurance renewals can get overlooked....He wouldn't have a claim against the site owner, who I also know, as I would think somewhere in the terms of his mooring contract will be a liability clause. There's another boat gone down on the same marina, but this one was on it's mooring...this, I suspect, is down to the boat owner not keeping an eye on his property. It's always been the same on this stretch of the Soar...rises quickly and floods easily. On the marina where we used to live there would be at least half a dozen small weekend boats sink every winter just because the owners couldn't be bothered to check on them.

 

I honestly don't know Alex. The long finger pontoons like the one Daydream was on rise op and down on big tubular pilings.

I guess if it got high enough then the pontoons would just float off and be held by the gangways. However by then I'd suggest the site would have been long since evacuated

 

how are you getting on,
back to normal..
rivers seemed to drop quick around here..






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are you in Nottingham yet ...

 

Haha. All good thanks Art.
The water has receded quickly and whilst still way above the 'norm' the car parks are accessible again.
The new norm maybe? Who knows.

Power is back on but the legacy this time is the realisation that some of the electric boxes are vulnerable and require resiting.

 

I live virtually next to the Thames and all I can say yer it’s burst it’s bank in certain parts, but as long as I can get to the pub in my defender I’ll be ok


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I'm off to the Lincolnshire coast tomorrow, can't get via Dunham Bridge as it's still closed due to the flooding. There are several alternative routes.

 

Yep the electrical one,
silver with a red stripe..

 

With regards to the why do people buy on a flood plain.

I design flood defences as part of my job. We are contracted to provide a certain level of protection - which is typically expressed in return periods. So you get your new house and legal paperwork and searches showing that you are at risk of flooding with a 1:100 year return period for example. The issue is that the average householder reads this as I have a chance of flooding once in one hundred years, doesn't seem that risky, I'll be moving in 10 years anyway, won't be an issue.

Two problems - a 1:100 year flood is just a water level that we might reasonably expect to see once every hundred years. But as with all statistics, there is nothing stopping us having 4 or 5 or even 20 1:100 year storm events in a row. Secondly there is the issue that storm events are getting bigger and more frequent, so what might have been historically a 1:100 year standard of protection may well now only be say 1:20.

 

Shock I expect, like little kids fall off their bikes and break a leg but more concerned with where their trainer went. Or same thing was reaction by a girl I was working with on a farm who fell out of un overturned trailer and cut through her thigh to the bone - where's my welly boot?

 

Hi
Thanks for sending the link , it did work by the way , crazy amount of water mate hope you escaped it , cheers