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[VectraMan]

Cockermouth Fellow: We're getting flooded
Timberwolf: That's because you live on a floodplain, dummy
CF: We're getting flooded much more than we used to
T: Yes, because of the flood plain
CF: I think the floodplain was there before the flooding got worse...

I have family in last year's disaster zone: Tewkesbury, and there they've been building on the flood plain with obvious effect. Though I think the people of Tewkesbury were somewhat bemused by all the media attention as it floods there every year and always has.

In 98 (I think) where I was living in Banbury was flooded. The pictures of the street even made the national news. But again there were a load of new houses built on what would have been a flood plain, and as it happened all the new houses were built raised about 6 feet higher and so escaped the flood..

[threaded]

I have family in last year's disaster zone: Tewkesbury, and there they've been building on the flood plain with obvious effect. Though I think the people of Tewkesbury were somewhat bemused by all the media attention as it floods there every year and always has.

In 98 (I think) where I was living in Banbury was flooded. The pictures of the street even made the national news. But again there were a load of new houses built on what would have been a flood plain, and as it happened all the new houses were built raised about 6 feet higher and so escaped the flood..

They've done that with a load of houses they built in a drained lake near me. Is quite amusing to see all these houses on their little hills, and when it rained it was like a chess board, quite pretty.

[OwlHoot]

Events like the cockermouth flooding are going to happen from time to time.
On one of the BBC blogs they showed the peak year on year rain fall for cockermouth. It was consistanly higher 100 years ago

The year on year rainfall may not be higher; but if freak events like a foot of water falling in a day or two become more common, that in itself indicates something about the climate is changing.

Also, cynics crowing about the supposed warming trend stopping and even going into reverse should bear in mind that the Sun is as quiet and subspot-free as it has been for decades, perhaps centuries. That means it blocks fewer cosmic rays, and the resulting increase in these triggers more rainfall.

[Sysman]

I have family in last year's disaster zone: Tewkesbury, and there they've been building on the flood plain with obvious effect. Though I think the people of Tewkesbury were somewhat bemused by all the media attention as it floods there every year and always has.

In 98 (I think) where I was living in Banbury was flooded. The pictures of the street even made the national news. But again there were a load of new houses built on what would have been a flood plain, and as it happened all the new houses were built raised about 6 feet higher and so escaped the flood..

I remember a chap describing that he'd visited an area suffering where houses had been built on a flood plain and were all under water. The exception was a Victorian house which had steps up to the front door. It's cellars were flooded but the main living area was intact. They should really look at what our ancestors built and ask why, and I'll add that that includes the building materials used in a given area.