Moorland - how unsympathetic am I allowed to be?

[Obnoxiousness]

I have a relative who keeps saying, "Never buy a house called 'River View', on a sunny day." It's an awful thing, being flooded, but I think that even though I personally live on a hill, over 160m above sea level, this natural disaster will also bring repercussions to me. The big question is how they can stop flooding happening... are the Tories prepared to create jobs building river and coastal defences? Will the Tories lose votes in places like Henley if they don't take action on a large scale?

 

[Belushi]

Living on a hill doesn't mean you can't get flooded.

 

[Obnoxiousness]

It is unlikely though. The land drops away dramatically on two sides so it would have to be a biblical flood.

 

[Belushi]

Depends whether you're right at the top or not. Half my ancestral village got washed away by a flash flood in the 19th century.

 

[JTG]

Depends whether you're right at the top or not. Half my ancestral village got washed away by a flash flood in the 19th century.

Yet you were in the half that survived

 

[Belushi]

Yet you were in the half that survived

Rather my great great grandparents were

It was one of those weird once in a thousand years things

 

[stowpirate]

DM Comic crusade to help rich flooded souls. Feeling a tad unsympathetic
with pictures of mansions followed by sign the petition
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ions-picturesque-banks-Thames-hit-deluge.html

 

[Leafster]

Living on a hill doesn't mean you can't get flooded.

There's a shop in our village which is on the hillside above the bit that's actually flooded. When it's rained recently the water runs down the hill through the back of the shop and out the front.

 

[Dogsauce]

Living on a hill doesn't mean you can't get flooded.

Definitely. I'm about 95m above ODN yet my cellar (used as a practice room for my band) flooded a couple of inches about seven years ago when drains backed up in a torrential rainstorm. Because it was combined sewer everything that got touched was supposed to get skipped (though they were pragmatic about a couple of nicer guitars that were barely touched by it, and it didn't stink of anything because rainwater had washed out or diluted anything too nasty). Big insurance claim, about five figures. A lot of stuff came back out of the skip though, and that which didn't disappeared pretty quickly!

 

[Pickman's model]

I have a relative who keeps saying, "Never buy a house called 'River View', on a sunny day." It's an awful thing, being flooded, but I think that even though I personally live on a hill, over 160m above sea level, this natural disaster will also bring repercussions to me. The big question is how they can stop flooding happening... are the Tories prepared to create jobs building river and coastal defences? Will the Tories lose votes in places like Henley if they don't take action on a large scale?

there won't be any such place as henley if they don't take action now.

 

[redcogs]

that would be a sad loss to the UK's demographic map.

 

[Pickman's model]

that would be a sad loss to the UK's demographic map.

it would add a certain immediacy and practicality to the final henley regatta

 

[T & P]

DM Comic crusade to help rich flooded souls. Feeling a tad unsympathetic
with pictures of mansions followed by sign the petition
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ions-picturesque-banks-Thames-hit-deluge.html

Even though it is hard to be shocked anymore by the Daily Mail's general vileness, I have been particularly sickened by their campaign to take money from foreign aid to give to flood victims. On the opening day of their campaign they were ranting about the "unimaginable horrors" the flood victims must be going through.

No, you fucking subhuman cunts. Being gang raped on a regular basis by militia men, or having your entire family hacked to death is unimaginable horror- not having your ground floor flooded.

 

[redcogs]

i believe George Arrison of the Ruttles used to own Henley, but i understand he passed some years ago.

He's probably living in a spiritual world now, and pleased to be avoiding the inclement stuff.

 

[ViolentPanda]

there won't be any such place as henley if they don't take action now.

There will be, it's just that the regatta will be held over Henley, not at Henley.

That thought pleases me immensely.

 

[pesh]

Even though it is hard to be shocked anymore by the Daily Mail's general vileness, I have been particularly sickened by their campaign to take money from foreign aid to give to flood victims. On the opening day of their campaign they were ranting about the "unimaginable horrors" the flood victims must be going through.

No, you fucking subhuman cunts. Being gang raped on a regular basis by militia men, or having your entire family hacked to death is unimaginable horror- not having your ground floor flooded.

+1

tax avoiders making noise about how the taxes they don't pay are used can fuck right off.

 

[Mr Moose]

Muslim Aid active in Somerset now which may present a dilemma to a racist in need of a warm meal and a canoe.

 

[stowpirate]

Royal clowns now doing a bit of PR work

http://news.sky.com/story/1211614/william-and-harry-help-with-flood-relief

 

[Obnoxiousness]

Here's something frightening...
http://flood.firetree.net/

If you crank up the upper left pulldown menu to just +5m, you will see that Cambridge and Peterborough become seaside resorts.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Even though it is hard to be shocked anymore by the Daily Mail's general vileness, I have been particularly sickened by their campaign to take money from foreign aid to give to flood victims. On the opening day of their campaign they were ranting about the "unimaginable horrors" the flood victims must be going through.

No, you fucking subhuman cunts. Being gang raped on a regular basis by militia men, or having your entire family hacked to death is unimaginable horror- not having your ground floor flooded.

On the plus side, a few years back Quentin Letts' house was flooded.

Every cloud...

 

[William of Walworth]

i believe George Arrison of the Ruttles used to own Henley, but i understand he passed some years ago.

Not sure how much property (if any?) George might have owned in Henley, but in fact his main mansion was at St Georges Hill, a little way away .... and not at river level.

 

[redcogs]

Are you certain William. i was sure that Friar Park of Henley on Thames was the mansion in question, once owned by Frank Crisp?

 

[William of Walworth]

Well there could very easily have been more than one, after all he was rich enough
But that Wiki link definitely says he once lived at Kenwood, St George's Hill

Irrelevant namedrop fact : Once spotted George H wandering around the general festival site at WOMAD, then at Reading, the year Ravi Shankar played (1997?). There was a discreet bodyguard type a few paces away but otherwise he acted almost like a normal punter -- even went into the beer tent for a pint (and of Brakspears, too <this CAMRA type approved> )

 

[redcogs]

Well there could very easily have been more than one, after all he was rich enough
But that Wiki link definitely says he once lived at Kenwood, St George's Hill

Irrelevant namedrop fact : Once spotted George H wandering around the general festival site at WOMAD, then at Reading, the year Ravi Shankar played (1997?). There was a discreet bodyguard type a few paces away but otherwise he acted almost like a normal punter -- even went into the beer tent for a pint (and of Brakspears, too <this CAMRA type approved> )

i was quite fond of Hari. i wonder if the bodyguard was a consequence of George being attacked by a mentally ill person that time? Deserves him right in a way, he was way too wealthy, and way too tight fisted. All that cash but he wrote this whining complaining song 'Taxman'.. in the mid 1960s (when tax rates were actually far more progressive than today, not that thats an excuse). my guess is that he didn't buy you a pint the tightwad.

 

[William of Walworth]

I think the attack was later than then ...

No, no pints bought. But then again I didn't even try to blag one off him

 

[redcogs]

William, i'd have stood you a Womad pint.