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Snowedin3
25 November 2024 12:20:03
Feel free to move this to the up in Arms 😅 but genuinely The met office have some serious explaining to do from a warning point of view, the handling for this weekend s storm has been really poor in my opinion, the local river has been the highest ever recorded, which has meant a lot of homes underwater, a month before Christmas too, I don’t think enough emphasis was put on the Nowcast situation, one family I know who have never flooded before would have made the necessary plans to limit damage but the water rose so fast it was I. The house before they could make a difference.

Anyway rant over

Dean


Dean Barnes

Finstock, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

160m ASL 525 Ft

Retron
25 November 2024 12:36:31
Yes, as I said the other day the warning situation was shockingly bad - and obviously so, too. I can only think the MetO were distracted by the snow rather than going by what the models were showing further south!

To only issue a wind warning at 7 o'clock yesterday morning down here was pants, frankly, especially considering all the disruption on Saturday due to trees coming down on railway lines and motorways, as well as the usual damage to fences, flying trampolines etc. Again, if an armchair weather-watcher like me could see it warranted a warning, why couldn't they?

I can't speak for the rain side of things, as that wasn't an issue here, but going by what happened further west it looks like they underperformed there as well.

I know there's a balance between "crying wolf" and leaving things too late, but this has to go down as a big fail. Hopefully they'll find a better balance next time.


Leysdown, north Kent
Steve
25 November 2024 15:17:17

Hopefully the police will track down this moron farmer and make him pay for the damage he caused

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg7w7xzrj3t?post=asset%3Afd25641b-0b8b-4bf7-8b91-96b2bd8ec266#post 

Roger Parsons
25 November 2024 16:17:09

Hopefully the police will track down this moron farmer and make him pay for the damage he caused

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg7w7xzrj3t?post=asset%3Afd25641b-0b8b-4bf7-8b91-96b2bd8ec266#post 

Originally Posted by: Steve 

Yes - I saw that clip earlier, Steve. Very bad driving and breathtakingly stupid.


RogerP

West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire

Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.

William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830

Snowedin3
25 November 2024 19:56:33
The rain situation was dire here it just didn’t stop the local area and river rose 1.5 meters in a few hours people didn’t have time to stop it
Dean Barnes

Finstock, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

160m ASL 525 Ft

Saint Snow
25 November 2024 20:33:35

Hopefully the police will track down this moron farmer and make him pay for the damage he caused

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg7w7xzrj3t?post=asset%3Afd25641b-0b8b-4bf7-8b91-96b2bd8ec266#post 

Originally Posted by: Steve 

Wasn't Clarkson, was it ?

😠


Martin

Home: St Helens (26m asl) Work: Manchester (75m asl)

A TWO addict since 14/12/01

"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."

Aneurin Bevan

25 November 2024 22:26:12
I was surprised how high the local stream looked on my dog walk earlier this evening. Could also hear water running in the ditches and it was flowing out of the field entrance next door. I didn't think we'd had that much rain here but I suppose it doesn't take much to saturate the ground given the very wet autumn and winter last year which carried on into spring. Summer was also distinctly lacking in modern era warm dry spells and September was exceptionally wet here too

Much colder outside again tonight than I thought was supposed to be


Jason

Salfords, Surrey

DEW
  • DEW
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26 November 2024 08:56:23
Floods cause 'major incident' in Northamptonshire

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c245jv3086yo 

The Billing Aquadrome residential caravan park (now there's some nominative determinism!) has been evacuated due to flooding. But hold on - this is the FOURTH time this site has been evacuated this year. (three in the link below and now a fourth)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvglpqx6qz4o 

Climate change? or unwise development by the owners and approved by the local council?


War is God's way of teaching Americans geography - Ambrose Bierce

Chichester 12m asl

Gandalf The White
26 November 2024 09:09:42

Floods cause 'major incident' in Northamptonshire

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c245jv3086yo 

The Billing Aquadrome residential caravan park (now there's some nominative determinism!) has been evacuated due to flooding. But hold on - this is the FOURTH time this site has been evacuated this year. (three in the link below and now a fourth)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvglpqx6qz4o 

Climate change? or unwise development by the owners and approved by the local council?

Originally Posted by: DEW 

Both.  Surely not even a dim group of councillors would approve development on a flood plain that is underwater for weeks on end?


Location: South Cambridgeshire

130 metres ASL

52.0N 0.1E



Roger Parsons
27 November 2024 15:36:46

Yes - I saw that clip earlier, Steve. Very bad driving and breathtakingly stupid.

Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons 

However.... Telegraph says:

"The farmer who was arrested after driving his tractor through a flooded street and sending a wave crashing into shops was on his way to help save a child, his friends have said.

The 57-year-old man is said to be “deeply sorry” for the damage he caused in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, during Storm Bert."

Tractor driver arrested over flood outrage was ‘racing to rescue child’

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/tractor-driver-arrested-over-flood-093026187.html 


RogerP

West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire

Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.

William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830

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