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You bet Brum would get into difficulty, too. :)
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Ha, yes, the mightly Beverley Brook, which probably hasn't been left with enough room to burst its banks. It's terrifying how in Germany usually placid, shallow streams suddenly became raging torrents.
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Just observations: the trend for off road parking has added to the additional strain being put on to Victorian drainage. The amount of soil / grass/ planted areas that has disappeared completely in some urban landscapes. The added hard standing areas that flow towards the drains rather than standing must be a huge additional add to capacity consttaints. Sometimes we sow and get what we deserve.
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They could've mentioned any of several "depave" projects in the UK and since they mention London, this guidance is decent and could do with being more widely known, and there's a huge street-greening project in Sheffield.
Perhaps they mean a more specific critique that a 'movement' is needed (rather than lots of individual community projects and some council-led), obviously I agree generally much more awareness of the issue is needed. It just comes across a bit "the US has a thing we need" rather than highlighting some of the good work being done here.
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i think i may have to have a word with my neighbour who told me at the weekend that they are planning to concrete the bottom of their garden as a base for a new shed / summer house and chicken shed.
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It's not over:
It comes as the Met Office has a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms covering vast swathes of the UK as forecasters expect more heavy rain and potential disruption.
It said up to 60mm of rain could fall inside three hours in some places as showers and thunderstorms develop into Wales and northern and central England.
A thunderstorm warning runs until 6am on Wednesday.
Ten flood alerts are still in place in England, six of them inside the M25.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-flash-flooding-climate-change-sadiq-khan-b947785.html
That sounds to me as if there'll be terrible floods in the places where there have been many before, like parts of Yorkshire.
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Could they put it on stilts?
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Wow, that's a lot of streets. Has the list been updated/extended/completed since?
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Some more brief reports and quotes from around London:
Oliver Road:
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And here's Khan calling for more action on climate chaos while pressing ahead with the deeply damaging Silvertown Tunnel, on which he is rightly called out here. His spokesperson again trots out the utter nonsense they've been spouting as the official line for some time now.
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How's it looking for everyone today? We've had a lot of continuous rain here in the North-east today, but I can't find any reports of flooding yet, so hopefully it's not too bad elsewhere?
Here's another article I thought was worth posting on the recent floods, about St Cuthbert's Church in Earl's Court:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/london-flooding-historic-108-year-21158937
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Simple things like that, definitely. But you then get the usual question of whether everyone would notice them, or be able to interpret the information quickly enough. As we have seen from videos taken at fords, many people don't even stop before ploughing through. I mean, I consider fords not to be a major problem, as local people tend to know about them, but in serious flood events, careless drivers could be swept away.