f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Exactly what I have been thinking recently. If I hear the term biblical used about the weather one more time I will sfream. It's a lot of rain and some high winds and yes there's some flooding, but of biblical proportions it is not!

The 1931 China floods or Typhoon Nina in 1975 or the cyclone in Bangladesh in 1991 where hundreds of thoiusands of people perished and hundreds of thousands more were left homeless could be described as biblical, but this is some bad weather made ten times worse by the cack handed handling of the situation by Cameron & Co.

Butkus

Blimey, why all the hatred? Isn't anyone on here from the South East?

RA Dunk

Nice find, The first five comments actually echo what we say in here regarding the South, so that gives a pretty good general opinion TBH.

2. Terry
10TH FEBRUARY 2014 - 18:14
Why the surprise, Paul? A cloudy day in London is always more serious than a biblical flood in the North.

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Comment number 3. David Daniels
10TH FEBRUARY 2014 - 18:40
Again, look at the number of minutes of news devoted to the floods 'down south' compared to the time given to floods affecting more people 'up north'.



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Comment number 4. ukpahonta
10TH FEBRUARY 2014 - 18:41
Unprecedented reporting, that's about to be updated with the Thames flooding....



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Comment number 5. albanaich
10TH FEBRUARY 2014 - 19:11
Perhaps more interesting is the unprecedented snowfall in the Scottish Highlands. . . . which has barely been reported.

The amount of snow it such that it may form a permanent snow cap this year, so while the rain drowns Southern England Scotland goes into glacier formation.

Thats the top of the buried Ski lift. . . . .

http://ski.visitscotland.com/conditions/nevis/



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Comment number 6. Leedschris
10TH FEBRUARY 2014 - 19:17
The media now always makes out that this or that flood is a 'record'. I recommend those with the patience to scan through the past volumes of 'British Rainfall', covering the years 1860-1991, that are now archived on the Met Office web-site. You can read the sheer number and volume of floods that have happened more or less every year somewhere in the country. It is also worth noting that even on the Met Office's figures January 1948 was (just) wetter over England and Wales as an average, with a rainfall of 177mm that month, compared to 174mm this last January. Moreover, if you look at January 1948 more than double the amount of normal rain was experienced over almost the whole of England and more than four times the normal was measured in the NE, so the high rainfall was even more widespread than this past month. As to the coastal storms the coverage of the storms at Aberystwyth and near Dawlish give the impression that they were unprecedented, but if you 'google' images of these areas you will see pictures of Aberystwyth on two occasions in the 1920s and 1930s with scenes of damage similar to what we have just seen. And at Dawlish the rail line has been cut by damaging seas on numerous occasions - even within a few years of it being completed the line was having to be rebuilt to replace sections damaged by high seas. The lesson is - we have seen it all before: even if the media make it sound as though 'abnormal' (sic) weather is a recent phenomenon.

Osimabu

iTrader: (2)

There were catastrophic floods in East Anglia in 1910 and 1912. Railway bridges were swept away, and there was a month's rainfall in 24 hours in the 1912 one. The centre of Norwich was flooded too. I'm sure that was far worse on a local level than the current situation.

I noticed that when Midsomer Murders country began to get damp this week, the politicians suddenly became far more interested in it all, but I thought perhaps I was imagining it. Clearly not.

It proves our 'senior' politicians don't give a toss about anywhere but the south-east, regardless of all their platitudes, but I think there are some local MPs who are going to come out of this looking very good as they clearly do care about the areas they represent.

ditchmyster

iTrader: (7)

Lies, all lies, it's because of global warming.

f1_fan

iTrader: (9)

Defnitely not, I noticed the very same thing!

Matteeboy

Hmmm....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...EU-policy.html

mickywrx

iTrader: (29)

One good thing could come of all this flooding down south.

If the temperature was to drop far enough for a couple of days, they'd have some ******* awesome ice rinks.

Suresh

If you live in a labour-supporting area up north, maybe, just maybe the Tories don't give a toss about you and your 50p house being flooded. And conversely, when labour are in power they find it essential to introduce clever new ways relieve Tory voters of their wealth.

RA Dunk

Heard on the news yesterday that all of the houses that have been flooded the occupants won't have to pay any council tax. I wonder how long that will last.