Have you battened down your hatches??

[classic33]

Everyone ready for Dennis?

 

[tyred]

The local radio station was making appeals not to travel without being properly prepared with a blanket, a spare coat, first aid kit, hot water bottle, snow shovel, snow chains, jump leads, a spare gallon of petrol, distress flares, thermos flask of tea, bottles of drinking water, emergency rations of food, a small axe and a Swiss Army knife.

I felt a right twit getting on the bus to go to work this morning.

 

[midlife]

Not a lot here in Cumwhinton near Carlisle , sort of damp and blustery. Local news full of floody stuff.

 

[ColinJ]

The TV news was today showing troops being deployed in Mytholmroyd to build temporary flood defences. If the river starts to overflow again and those defences hold then why wasn't that done 4 or 5 years ago and kept in place (where possible) while the permanent flood defences are being built?

 

[classic33]

Call me cynical, but that would be admitting they got it wrong from the start. The same defences failed late last year, near the fire station in Mytholmroyd.

Local council not happy, despite what has been said, at the army helping out.

 

[classic33]

The local radio station was making appeals not to travel without being properly prepared with a blanket, a spare coat, first aid kit, hot water bottle, snow shovel, snow chains, jump leads, a spare gallon of petrol, distress flares, thermos flask of tea, bottles of drinking water, emergency rations of food, a small axe and a Swiss Army knife.

I felt a right twit getting on the bus to go to work this morning.

You mean downsize, never!!

 

[ColinJ]

Call me cynical, but that would be admitting they got it wrong from the start. The same defences failed late last year, near the fire station in Mytholmroyd.

Local council not happy, despite what has been said, at the army helping out.

I just can't help thinking that if I had £30+ million pounds to spend on that flood defence work, that I could get a company to commit to completing it in (say) 2 years.

I have heard lots of local people muttering about how long it is taking and that there seems to be an awful lot of people standing around not looking very busy!

 

[classic33]

Any time I've gone past there's more doing not a lot than actually working. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

If memory serves me correct they have ten years to complete the work, from the start date.

2015 was seen and classed as a "once in a lifetime" event. I think it's the fourth time I've seen it happen, since '95.

The turning circle for Heptonstall has been under water before now.

 

[Blue Hills]

Call me cynical, but that would be admitting they got it wrong from the start. The same defences failed late last year, near the fire station in Mytholmroyd.

Local council not happy, despite what has been said, at the army helping out.

I thought i read that it was just 35 soldiers. Not what one tends to think of when they say, oo, THE ARMY.

 

[tom73]

I thought i read that it was just 35 soldiers. Not what one tends to think of when they say, oo, THE ARMY.

That's about the size of a regiment since cut backs

 

[tom73]

The big problem is the blame game everyone is blaming each other. With no one over seeing the whole thing and with the power to just get stuff done. Which is just like every other civil engineering project. If the victorians had been the same we'd have never got past the water wheel never mind everything else. Brunel would be so proud

 

[PeteXXX]

And for those who have ever crossed from Ardrossan to Arran......


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It wasn't like this on my LEJOG crossing

 

[Edwardoka]

And for those who have ever crossed from Ardrossan to Arran......


View: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2577936285773337&id=1432770883623222


It wasn't like this on my LEJOG crossing

It's pretty wild to see the ship I've spent so much time on bobbing like a cork.
Major kudos to the crew for docking successfully. If I were in charge it'd be like "ok passengers you all live aboard now"

 

[NorthernDave]

I just can't help thinking that if I had £30+ million pounds to spend on that flood defence work, that I could get a company to commit to completing it in (say) 2 years.

I have heard lots of local people muttering about how long it is taking and that there seems to be an awful lot of people standing around not looking very busy!

But isn't that the case with any public works now? Slightly off topic but Lee Bridge / Dean Clough in downtown Halifax is currently closed for ten weeks for "major gas works" - this is a major link route and it's causing traffic chaos in the surrounding area, yet these major works seem to involve a team of three workpeople, two of who appear to spend most of the working day sat in a van watching the other one wandering around.

Anyway, back on topic and there seems to have been even more industrial grade over egging of the situation. Watching BBC Breakfast they've been frantically going round their correspondents stood by riverside car parks that are partially under 3" water, or by hastily erected flood defences that haven't been needed...

 

[classic33]

But isn't that the case with any public works now? Slightly off topic but Lee Bridge / Dean Clough in downtown Halifax is currently closed for ten weeks for "major gas works" - this is a major link route and it's causing traffic chaos in the surrounding area, yet these major works seem to involve a team of three workpeople, two of who appear to spend most of the working day sat in a van watching the other one wandering around.

Anyway, back on topic and there seems to have been even more industrial grade over egging of the situation. Watching BBC Breakfast they've been frantically going round their correspondents stood by riverside car parks that are partially under 3" water, or by hastily erected flood defences that haven't been needed...

Lee Bridge is open, Dean Clough as far as Corporation Street(for now), from Lee Bridge.

Old Lane, at the Blue Ball Bridge is closed. This to allow water to be pumped off, and the bridge inspected.