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Oh my - you got lucky there and what a star of a Landlord .... Some extraordinary pictures of the mid November flooding in FIfe ..48 hours of torrential rain.
Yeah, your right, never seen so much rain dumped in such a short time, my own garden was also flooded and in hindsight maybe I should have checked the field however there was only a small burn running around 200 feet away and it was about 20 feet below the field so was not even on my mind, really lucky it never went any higher and both colonies appear to have survived, although I can only imagine what was going through their collective minds WTF! lol
I worked in Perth for a couple of years and the Tay regularly used to flood on the lower side of the town into South Inch Park ... but nothing like you see up there these days. Parts of Perth that have never seen flooding were under water in November ... despite millions being spent on flood defences. There's something amiss there ...
Definitely seeing more regular flooding events, likely an amalgamation of causes. Although I'm no expert but do feel the use of concrete and modern flood barriers miss the point and are trying to contain the cow after the gate left open. I would love to see us going back and managing the rivers up to source, allowing the correct plant growth and natural dams to slow down , hold and contain the flood waters givin time for the water to disperse rather than cascade down stream at a rate of knots during every heavy rain storm.
Good result, Camey.
The river Aire from Knottingly to the Yorkshire Ouse is like a series of dog's hind legs. Left to its own devices I think many of the loops would have eroded through to straighten it's course naturally and leave a number of Ox Bow lakes. (My school geography lessons of 60 years ago covered these in detail) Now we see the EA battling to keep it from flooding the surrounding area by "improving" the banks while the convoluted route remains. A long stretch of the A19 SW of Selby was closed for over a year following being washed out a couple of years ago. Urban development upstream has led to faster run off so increased flow in the downstream sections of many watercourse.
The only problem with the blue pallets is some of them belong to a company that is very protective of them to the point of insisting that you return them or pay some exorbitant fee for your continued possession of them. There is a white 'C' stencilled on the risers to help you identify them and commonly referred to as 'Cheps'.
Yes, I've heard that but never been challenged. In fact, it's obvous that the blues & reds I find on the street have been put out for passers-by. Two shops local to me - small supermarkets - provide regular pickings. I ask and they're always glad to get rid of them, but though blue they have no ID codes, so maybe some are owned and some not.
