Flooding

Some of the recent builds in town just have the garage and futility room on the ground floor. Living accomodation above the 300year flood level.

I've regularly seen flooding on a flat and level road some 300ft above the nearest river, nowhere near any other water course and less than

Given the choice you'd automatically choose a house on the hill as being relatively immune to flooding, yet many of the problems seem to be with localised land drainage.

Indeed. Yo are OK on a local hill TOP, but halfway down is bad news..

I used to get water running down the drive off the road, but a deeper gravel drive, a higher house and french drains have fixed that.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "MuddyMike" saying something like:

Often, the flood water just comes up through the floor anyway.

Same here - the Severn is right down in the gorge and even the nearest stream is a long way downhill. The only bit of land above us is, near enough, the rather small back garden. There is higher ground not far away but there are saddles between, so water would (and does) shed that way.

Not convinced flood doors or a 1 storey mound would be all that useful against that either tbh

Interestingly, it's specifically mentioned on the solicitors standard disclosure documents for sale of a house, now.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember harry saying something like:

in a thousand years, just for effect is all.

chemists they raised it above the normal flood level, see