London floods

It comes down to money as always. Reactive is outweighing the proactive works for ALL water companies, and with the competition rules/open market coming into effective for big businesses next year it is only going to wrangle tighter and tighter. Lets hope there is progress coming 2022 when households are put on the open market, but it will be the same service just we pay a lower rate

Charlton Place in Islington:

Upper Street:

Camden Passage still has a few small traders, I hope they're insured.

Oh dear, you mean there's more privatisation coming? I missed that.

Well, next year its just large users but effectively they will chose whether they pay there bills to southern water instead of thames. So more monopoly which you wont say is the fault of the current water utilities after the mwb finished. 2022 is when we consumer can shop around like we do for our gas electric phone etc etc but i need to get more details.

Well lets hope. A 36 inch main. Loss adjusters are attending so hopefully the final costs is not too much as compared to the problems at Crayford and crushing car parks

Thanks, I don't like any of this. More undermining of public services.

More detail here, it all sounds pretty awful:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/islington-flood-causes-millions-of-pounds-of-damage-and-forces-distraught-residents-out-of-their-a3412476.html

Well, see it like this. Your current provider can not hold you down, but its still the same guys that will be doing the repairs etc. Just the billing element. We already have a system like these in London. New builds get supplied by another company. Where i live has been developed by Barratts, where about 450home from 923 (not exact figures) are supplied by SSE Water, who get their rate from TW.

Bloody hell.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/islington-flooding-dramatic-photos-show-widespread-destruction-after-streets-submerged-a3412681.html

One of the things that people admire most about Machu Picchu is its hydrological engineering, which is one of the factors that has ensured its good state of preservation. I have a feeling our cities will never draw that kind of acclaim.

Some awful damage, and, as above, I hope these people are insured. I fear some will not be.

Some awful damage, and, as above, I hope these people are insured. I fear some will not be.

I'd assume that if not insured (or even if you are) that it should be the water company paying the bill.

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Informal conversation yesterday with the guys behind the fence suggested "Wednesday" but the fences started coming down today so might be earlier

Wrote this poem last year, based on a wierd dream.

Higher Ground

When the floods came it was slow, at first.
The water crept over the Southbank,
and people began to get wet feet
coming out of the theatre.
On the third day every road
out of London was blocked,
by cars crammed with luggage,
bedding pressed against back windows,
nervous pets digging claws
into children's thighs.
It was cold for March.
We watched them abandon the cars
as the heaters ran the batteries down
and the waters rose.
We thought we were safe on our hill.
After a week they were kicking down the doors,
pale hands reaching through broken glass
while we stabbed at their fingers
with kitchen knives.

We had a significant Mains Water breach outside my project towards to top end of Avenue Road, NW8 back in July. The whole street was a river for the weekend assuming most of it ended up in Grand Union Canal. Loss Adjustors were kept busy because a lot of expensive cars in underground car parks were written off.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/36744001

The repair itself to the pipe 2 3 days. I would assume full cutout. Pipe is too fractured to repair as i would its been leaking for a while. 250ML lost in 3 hours.

But the damage to the road as the tarmac has been lifted and in a few other places apparently probably see 2 weeks

Not sure what kind of expert you are, that was way more than 250 millilitres of water though

Megalitres

I think I drank a megalitre the other night /csb

Hahaha
Walking through the area yesterday, it looked to me like they had done a pretty damn good job of cleaning up and some side streets were without power.

No, sadly not. Here in Herne Hill a few businesses closed for good after the flood due to no payout from the water co's...

I'm surprised by that, I wonder what the justification is? If they're responsible for the infrastructure then I'd have thought they'd be liable for damage caused by failure of said infrastructure.

Yes, I was thinking about Herne Hill, and also about the experience of a friend, who had a terrible time extracting compensation when his house was flooded. He had to wait for ages and jump through loads of hoops. Other people in his street who were insured had it much easier (although not all the insurance companies were as good as promised).

A20 reopened just now

Another burst main about half a mile from Lee High Road one on Lee Road up to Blackheath

Nightmare.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/blackheath-flooding-streets-submerged-as-severe-flood-wreaks-havoc-on-lee-road-a3417181.html

This looks terrible.