The Thames barrier is intended to prevent central London from flooding. As our capital city such an occurance would be catastrophic.
The Thames barrier won't protect such developments as the 'Thames Gateway' or whatever the hell it's called, and indeed was never intended to.
I wholeheartedly agree thogh that building houses on flood plains is complete insanity. Also, people that get flooded who weren't adequately insured should expect no help from the Government.
Possibly related to the fact that the public sector organisation have extorted large amounts of tax out of the people, and the poeple would like to see something back?
After recouping their losses by increasing everyone's premiums, the insurance companies will still declare record profits next year. They'll work out how much they need to claw back and then add a substantial extra amount on top - just like they always have done.
To have even more council tax extorted - but surely it's up to the individual to take the necessary precautions to insure themselves against such problems and let the public organisations do the job they are paid for - the clearing up of the infastructure and NOT individual hel/?
I don't know about you folks in England, but here in N. Ireland the insurer asks "has there been a history of flooding within X distance from your house". I have never had to answer "yes" to that, but would/could they refuse to insure me if I did ?
Apropos the 1953 floods, it depends on whether you are quoting figures for those killed in the UK, or not. Officially, 1,835 people were killed in the Netherlands, 307 were killed in the United Kingdom, in the counties of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. 28 were killed in Belgium.
But they're going to be, helped by the Conservatives who propose just that. How does that grab you? They're not exactly the party of bleeding hearts. From that alone one could deduce that the proposal has some merit. But to the vast majority of people it does anyway. Fortunately not everybody is as petty and mean-minded as most on this thread, which contains a suspiciously large number of names who do not post to this group regularly, or at all. Go away, you dismal little creeps.
Possibly, but then ask yourself why they are waiting until a problem befalls them before squeaking about that, or more to the point, doing something about it.
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Probably the same here. It is certainly the case that if you or a near neighbour have suffered subsidence you are unlikely to get new cover on that aspect on terms that you can actually afford.
One can have a certain amount of sympathy for companies that are reluctant to insure against flooding where flooding is a regular feature as is the case in places like Shrewsbury and York. Bookmakers won't take bets on dead certs so why should their cousins in insurance take on business that is absolutely bound to be loss making for ever more.
It is only prudent to insure, if one can afford to, to cover losses that one cannot afford to replace oneself so I was more than a little surprised that the BBC news chose to highlight a Yorkshire woman who apparently didn't have insurance to cover her new £15000 kitchen. Anyone with sufficient funds to waste that amount on a kitchen should have ample left over to insure everything up to the hilt.
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I intended to quote the figures for the UK but my memory let me down. IIRC we had 8 drowned in my town alone. Our class was the last to return to our proper school (for some obsure reason I can't now recall) some 6 months after the flood. Some of the householders were out even longer.
ISTR that the UK total was near doubled by the loss of a ferry in the Irish Sea. A quick google picked up the figure of 130. I can't be sure whether that is included in the 307 but I rather think it was.
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