The Floods

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Poor sods having to go through that , in some cases 3rd time in less than a decade

Grim stuff 😫

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Poor sods having to go through that , in some cases 3rd time in less than a decade

Grim stuff ��

Terrible, but that street in Ponty is built on the river bank practically what a daft place to build a row of houses and expect them not to get flooded.

[lincoln blue]

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Terrible, but that street in Ponty is built on the river bank practically what a daft place to build a row of houses and expect them not to get flooded.

They used to dredge the river regularly in front of those houses and floods were very rare. Once in the early 60s but recently with all the storms there is not enough river bed capacity to deal with all the rain.
Dredge it, problem sorted, yesterday just a little more capacity would have averted the breach.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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[QUOTE=lincoln blue;5555699]They used to dredge the river regularly in front of those houses and floods were very rare. Once in the early 60s but recently with all the storms there is not enough river bed capacity to deal with all the rain.
Dredge it, problem sorted, yesterday just a little more capacity would have averted the breach.[/QUO

That makes sense but does the money come from, we are lucky if they pick up the bins on time and cut the grass and hedges more than three times a year.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Pontypridd is a catch area for a number of rivers and always gets it in the neck

[Alan Lung]

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I'd move. Makes no sense to keep living there.

[Forest Green Bluebird]

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I'd move. Makes no sense to keep living there.

I suspect that moving is not an affordable option for many who live there.

[MacAdder]

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The area was only on "Amber alert" apparently and the governing bodies are under investigation.

The weather forecast two days before looked horrendous and so it proved to be.

Locals reckon simple supplies of sandbags in time would have mitigated the destruction considerably.

What the hell do these people do all day ffs

[MacAdder]

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I'd move. Makes no sense to keep living there.

I suspect that moving is not an affordable option for many who live there.

Also once you've had a flood it is very difficult/expensive to get insurance and thus the property value suffers.

[splott parker]

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Anyone watching ‘Britain’s Killer Wave of 1607’ on Channel 5 at the moment? The story of the tsunami like surge that devastated both sides of the Bristol Channel. Still evidence of it around Peterstone & St Brides areas to this day.

[bobh]

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Anyone watching ‘Britain’s Killer Wave of 1607’ on Channel 5 at the moment? The story of the tsunami like surge that devastated both sides of the Bristol Channel. Still evidence of it around Peterstone & St Brides areas to this day.

Saw a bit, got recorded, not watched yet.
Scary. Did they give a reason?
Tidal surge of tsunami?
What could cause either? No radar then to spot a minor asteoid splashing into the Atlantic.


I live on flat land, so I got a bit nervous years ago when floods were reported all over the place, but over my back fence there's a footpath, the other side of the path is a reen that seems to be doing its job.
For the uninitiated, a reen (various spellings) is a bit like a canal, but more of a large drainage ditch.
Probably dug out decades ago to drain/irrigate the farmland this used to be.

[Alan Lung]

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Anyone watching ‘Britain’s Killer Wave of 1607’ on Channel 5 at the moment? The story of the tsunami like surge that devastated both sides of the Bristol Channel. Still evidence of it around Peterstone & St Brides areas to this day.

Meant to watch that, forgot about it. Does Channel 5 have an iPlayer thing to catch up?

[splott parker]

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Meant to watch that, forgot about it. Does Channel 5 have an iPlayer thing to catch up?

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