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As one of the more deprived parts of the EU, Wales used to get quite a bit of European Regional Development funding which was used for this sort of thing, infrastructure etc.
That money of course dried up a few years ago and hasn't been replaced by Westminster. I always told my neighbors that they'd be kidding themselves if they thought that Westminster would put that level of funding in. But still the good people of Wales majority voted for Brexit, so yeah, now there's no money.
(Having been born in Cardiff I have the right to complain).
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Idk what I'd do now.
There’s a guy in Brixton who has a bitcoin server in his 2-story flat. Says he’s not making much coin anymore but he’s able to heat his house for free.
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Quite a lot more flooding, on the West Coast Main Line and in Northampton. As usual, the Standard focuses mainly on transport disruption (old habits die hard).
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BBC on the tractor incident:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c14ldgpvmd2o
This shows how quickly the flood arrived in Tenbury Wells after the wall collapsed:
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The watercourse that flooded the town isn't even the main river there, just a small tributary. The same pattern has been seen all over Europe (and no doubt elsewhere), often in fairly narrow valleys, of small streams becoming raging rivers.
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An interesting article about Tenbury Wells:
Sharman has been trading in the heart of Tenbury for about seven years, and became emotional as he said: “If we get flooded again I’ll walk away, and the landlords can sue us. I don’t care, I’ll go bankrupt. I’ve had enough.”
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Locals said they hope the headlines draw attention to the existential threat facing Tenbury – that, without help, it could become the first UK town centre abandoned due to flooding exacerbated by climate change.
“I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say it potentially could be abandoned,” said Dave Throup, a retired Environment Agency (EA) manager in the area and a flooding expert. “It sounds a dramatic claim, but people are already voting with their feet there.
“If you keep getting flooded once or twice a year and can’t get insurance, you just can’t keep going on. Without some kind of flood defences, the future looks very bleak indeed.”
I suppose you don't get 'insurance' against predictable events ...
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I suppose you don't get 'insurance' against predictable events ...
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Portentous sunset near me right now… duck and cover?
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Life insurance is also a thing.
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Life insurance is also a thing.
Sure, but trying to get flood protection on a shop on that street in Tenbury for a reasonable amount is like expecting to get Life Insurance for a 105 year old for a reasonable amount.
When £100k of cover costs you £50k/year then it becomes untenable.
FloodRE type schemes linked above try to mitigate these problems but eventually you reach the point where some things are just not viable in terms of insurance.
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It was all rather odd, I couldn’t work it out, was all so compressed on the horizon
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Absolute carnage in Manchester earlier.
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