So I might lose my house...

[Matthew_T]

Got a call earlier this evening from the Environment Agency warning about flooding. Had a proper look online and found that the sea level from normal sea level is expected to be 5.67 metres and it is expected to be 3 metres higher than it should be at high tide.

The council website says that they will only provide sandbags when you are getting flooded. A fat lot of help that is! However, sandbags are £1.50 from Thorncliffe.

I have tried to explain to my mother who is going insane that the waves will have to be exceptionally high to breach our flood defences. However, 5.6 metres is very high.
To add to everything, it is my birthday tomorrow and I dont really want to loose my house.

We are going to sort out belongings and such tomorrow and prepare for the worst (we need to replace the downstairs carpet anyway).

I will also put my bikes in the back of my car and make sure they are more safe than anything.

 

[ColinJ]

Yikes - good luck!

I would be tempted to shift everything valuable upstairs, just in case.

 

[slowmotion]

I'll bet £10 that you will be just fine in the next couple of days. HMG gets hysterical these days. They are advised by "experts". It's in their interests to big-things-up, and cover their arses.
It won't happen to YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[mcshroom]

To be safe, move all the electrical items and valuables you can upstairs (or high up) and turn off the ground floor electrics at the fuse box. Hope you stay dry.

 

[slowmotion]

I would still move stuff upstairs. I wouldn't want to risk any conversation with a loss adjuster that included the question "you received the warning but thought it was just arse covering?"

Do you wear a helmet, Adrian? The insurance industry has a view on that too.

 

[Shaun]

Having had my own home flooded I wish you luck and hope you manage to escape it!!

 

[slowmotion]

Now I don't know quite how sure the warning is but it is specific for a limited time. If I had similar for riding, perhaps I would take the train rather than risk the broken arm or leg.

You ignore the advice of earnest experts about cycle helmets, but trust HMG on weather predictions. Where I was in the West Country over Christmas, their dire predictions were a bit of a damp squibb.

Don't get fooled again or something.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Don't put your bike in the car down on ground level, put it in your bedroom where it should live!

 

[slowmotion]

You miss the point, I don't necessarily trust those warnings and agree that they are probably overcautious. The risk is the double blow of dismissing the warning and being judged negligent for having done so.

By the insurance industry, absolutely. Next thing, I won't be able to get on a saddle without a bike helmet, or go down a snow slope without a helmet either. Little by little, tiny steps...

 

[Somewhere]

Prestayn is only a flood warning and that's from coastal flooding not river. The wind is blowing the wrong way and I can't see a 3m surge happening on a straight piece of coastline!

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Flood warnings here too. I'm right on the beach and its high tide I think ...the storm is lashing against my windows...tbh the day I've had it won't surprise me if I wake up in the English channel.

Hope you don't lose the house.

 

[slowmotion]

Flood warnings here too. I'm right on the beach and its high tide I think ...the storm is lashing against my windows...tbh the day I've had it won't surprise me if I wake up in the English channel.

Hope you don't lose the house.

If it's high tide, the storm is lashing, and you are still on CC, I guess you are entirely OK. You could send the dramatic trauma story to the Daily Mail. There might be a bit of a queue.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Have you told that nice Mr Cameron?

 

[Matthew_T]

Have you told that nice Mr Cameron?

Do you mean that pompus idiot who has much better things to do like earn money and wash the toilet than to actually care for the people of his country and come and help out?
I didnt see him help out when St Asaph flooded or when Rhyl and Kimnel Bay flooded. And yet my local MP Chris Ruane actually did help out. The St Asaph flood was a major catastrophe, not a local thing and he didnt even batter an eye lid.

All politicians have only money on the mind. I used to like the PM (Tony Blair) but I cant even follow who it is anymore.

The government has become very political now and doesnt really care about the people of the country.

 

[Matthew_T]

Having had my own home flooded I wish you luck and hope you manage to escape it!!

I live at the front of the estate the furthest away from the dunes, so I have a pretty direct and quick route out. If there is a flood, we probably wont get wet.