Flooding.

KERSPLAT! · 07-12-2015 03:15PM

kneemos wrote: »

He's always hard on me.
Or maybe he's hard on everyone.

I'd be very disappointed if it wasn't just me.

It's because he loves you

kneemos · 07-12-2015 03:25PM

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

It's because he loves you

Not

suuure.

Corpus Twisty · 07-12-2015 06:46PM

Kneemy - if there's an access AJ outside the home/premises - call it a manhole to be simple - and the water is over that AJ, and gets deeper than the level of your toilet etc...the waters coming in yer bog mate, and siliconing the door shut will only help keep the water in. Also sandbags are as much use as a chocolate fireguard, generally. Water goes through/around/over/inbetween....it might slow it down a bit, but unless you have a serious wall of them, you're getting wet...

GMSA · 07-12-2015 06:56PM

Corpus Twisty wrote: »

Kneemy - if there's an access AJ outside the home/premises - call it a manhole to be simple - and the water is over that AJ, and gets deeper than the level of your toilet etc...the waters coming in yer bog mate, and siliconing the door shut will only help keep the water in. Also sandbags are as much use as a chocolate fireguard, generally. Water goes through/around/over/inbetween....it might slow it down a bit, but unless you have a serious wall of them, you're getting wet...

To stop a flood with sandbags you'd need 2 walls of bags with a space between them and fill this with earth and pack it down. Or if outside a door close the door set up the sand bags away from the door and pack material between the door and the bags.

Sheep Lover · 07-12-2015 07:19PM

A bead of silicone will save you from rising water? May aswell jam your mickey in the keyhole to stop the water coming through it also.

BlibBlab · 07-12-2015 08:18PM

Just do like this man
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/02/07/article-2553998-1B45900700000578-936_964x571.jpg

wendell borton · 07-12-2015 08:45PM

PARlance wrote: »

You'll rarely if ever hear of flooding in Silicone Valley.

Well, we'll see about that.:cool: I'm off to buy some shares in Zorin industries.

kneemos · 07-12-2015 10:03PM

Corpus Twisty wrote: »

Kneemy - if there's an access AJ outside the home/premises - call it a manhole to be simple - and the water is over that AJ, and gets deeper than the level of your toilet etc...the waters coming in yer bog mate, and siliconing the door shut will only help keep the water in. Also sandbags are as much use as a chocolate fireguard, generally. Water goes through/around/over/inbetween....it might slow it down a bit, but unless you have a serious wall of them, you're getting wet...

Do you mean the toilet bowl,it rarely gets that high.
Can see how the sewer pipe could let water in,but that could be sealed with something...

Corpus Twisty · 07-12-2015 10:15PM

kneemos wrote: »

Do you mean the toilet bowl,it rarely gets that high.
Can see how the sewer pipe could let water in,but that could be sealed with something...

Silicone perhaps?

SteelyDanJalapeno · 07-12-2015 10:19PM

Why do people set up in low areas where it can flood?

Make a hill out of silicone and move up there, jeez, it's not rocket science.

Mahogany Gaspipe · 07-12-2015 10:26PM

Or.....

just smother yourself, your family and all your belonging in silicone and live wherever the fcuk you like.

darkpagandeath · 07-12-2015 10:28PM

Why are people in areas like floodplains and coastal regions looking for Government money ? If I hear in living memory or last 100 years I will do a gasket. 100 years in Environmental and geological terms is nothing. Rivers flood seas encroach in stormy weather.

Mahogany Gaspipe · 07-12-2015 10:39PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Why are people in areas like floodplains and coastal regions looking for Government money ? If I hear in living memory or last 100 years I will do a gasket. 100 years in Environmental and geological terms is nothing. Rivers flood seas encroach in stormy weather.

Great point.

Can we add to the list areas, I'm think the midlands and east, that receives severe ground frost. Fcuk that spending the tax intake on salting roads!

I too hear in living memory frost places exist.

darkpagandeath · 07-12-2015 10:50PM

Mahogany Gaspipe wrote: »

Great point.

Can we add to the list areas, I'm think the midlands and east, that receives severe ground frost. Fcuk that spending the tax intake on salting roads!

I too hear in living memory frost places exist.

Why does one think they cant get insurance in areas like floodplains and coastal regions ? If I build a house or buy a house next to an open lava flow and the house then gets destroyed is it the governments fault ? One should become immediately suspicious of estate agents saying last 100 years or living memory and look up basics stuff in the town records.

kneemos · 07-12-2015 11:04PM

Rather elaborate and substantial sandbag walls on the news,only problem the water was the same level on both sides.
Also heard complaints on the radio this morning about the council not delivering enough sandbags and the Army had to come to the rescue.Again get a few bags,stick a bit of sand in and have them for those special occasions.

KERSPLAT! · 07-12-2015 11:17PM

kneemos wrote: »

Rather elaborate and substantial sandbag walls on the news,only problem the water was the same level on both sides.
Also heard complaints on the radio this morning about the council not delivering enough sandbags and the Army had to come to the rescue.Again get a few bags,stick a bit of sand in and have them for those special occasions.

Eejits putting down sand bags after the water has breached!! Highly unlikely they had the bags down already and the water, miraculously, made it through

Sheep Lover · 07-12-2015 11:42PM

If only the captain of the Titanic had a tube of Tec 7 handy. Could have averted the whole disaster.

dubscottie · 08-12-2015 12:44AM

Sheep Lover wrote: »

If only the captain of the Titanic had a tube of Tec 7 handy. Could have averted the whole disaster.

I renamed my Ipod Titanic..

It Syncs faster now..

uck51js9zml2yt · 08-12-2015 12:48AM

Watched the news at 6 report from Bandon this evening with the shop owner castigating the Government for not implementing the flood relief scheme in 6 years.as soon as she heard the minister saying there were 2 objections from Band on which held it up and that the money was in place to start it, the wind went out of her sails fairly sharpish.

What I can't understand is shop owners who knew floods were on the way, yet they left their stock on the ground floor to be destroyed.

The Sidewards Man · 08-12-2015 12:50AM

Santino Nice Flax wrote: »

What I can't understand is shop owners who knew floods were on the way, yet they left their stock on the ground floor to be destroyed.

Quiet possible its only a single story shop unit they are renting, what do you want them to do buy sky hooks and hang their stock on them.

uck51js9zml2yt · 08-12-2015 01:01AM

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

Quiet possible its only a single story shop unit they are renting, what do you want them to do buy sky hooks and hang their stock on them.

Quiet possibly, but I thought sky hooks went the way of the glass hammer !

Tony EH · 08-12-2015 01:13AM

kneemos wrote: »

People on the news complaining about having their homes and businesses flooded on a regular basis.
Once I can understand but surely they can take simple measures to protect their properties?Not like it wasn't predicted.
Flood barriers are available and are simple to install,even a three quid tub of Silicone generously applied will more than likely do the trick.
Don't get the need for allowing properties to be destroyed unnecessarily.

You've never been flooded I take it.

Water will get in. It will find a way if it's any way strong enough.

It'll come through the toilet if it can.

The Randy Riverbeast · 08-12-2015 01:18AM

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

Quiet possible its only a single story shop unit they are renting, what do you want them to do buy sky hooks and hang their stock on them.

Seal off the boxes of cereal with silicone.

NIMAN · 08-12-2015 04:06AM

I always wonder why the Gov take so much stick for areas being flooded?

This is Mother Nature we are talking about here, there is no stopping her power when she gets going. No amount of Gov policy will help us if we continue to get these extremes of weather.

Say the Gov needs to spend a few billion to sort out some of the worst affected areas for the future, are we all going to agree to the taxes to pay for it? No, of course not. When people won't pay €100 a year for an essential water supply, you have no chance getting more money off them cos some folk in the West are getting flooded every winter.

Corpus Twisty · 08-12-2015 08:51AM

NIMAN wrote: »

I always wonder why the Gov take so much stick for areas being flooded?

This is Mother Nature we are talking about here, there is no stopping her power when she gets going. No amount of Gov policy will help us if we continue to get these extremes of weather.

Say the Gov needs to spend a few billion to sort out some of the worst affected areas for the future, are we all going to agree to the taxes to pay for it? No, of course not. When people won't pay €100 a year for an essential water supply, you have no chance getting more money off them cos some folk in the West are getting flooded every winter.

People are never happy - they whinge when they have to pay for water, they whinge when they get thousands of gallons completely free.

Badly Drunk Boy · 08-12-2015 09:12AM

NIMAN wrote: »

I always wonder why the Gov take so much stick for areas being flooded?

This is Mother Nature we are talking about here, there is no stopping her power when she gets going. No amount of Gov policy will help us if we continue to get these extremes of weather.

Probably because it was government, or rather, local government that gave planning permission for building on flood plains and other areas susceptible to this sort of damage, in return for little brown envelopes. If only somebody would make an exposé programme about these corrupt politicians.

(What? RTÉ showed one last night??)

jamesbere · 08-12-2015 09:17AM

NIMAN wrote: »

I always wonder why the Gov take so much stick for areas being flooded?

This is Mother Nature we are talking about here, there is no stopping her power when she gets going. No amount of Gov policy will help us if we continue to get these extremes of weather.

Say the Gov needs to spend a few billion to sort out some of the worst affected areas for the future, are we all going to agree to the taxes to pay for it? No, of course not. When people won't pay €100 a year for an essential water supply, you have no chance getting more money off them cos some folk in the West are getting flooded every winter.

Some basic flood defences would help some villages and towns, take bandon, it only had a 6 inches of water on the main streets so some adequate defences could of prevented that. I think what ticks off the people of bandon is they know it's not submerging the town and a basic defence could solve a lot of problems.

Now take some of the towns in england that got flooded they had adequate defences but the sheer volume of water breeched the defences they had. Flood defences don't guarantee prevention of flooding but in cases where minor flooding is causes so much damage something should be done.

The Randy Riverbeast · 08-12-2015 02:54PM

NIMAN wrote: »

I always wonder why the Gov take so much stick for areas being flooded?

This is Mother Nature we are talking about here, there is no stopping her power when she gets going. No amount of Gov policy will help us if we continue to get these extremes of weather.

Say the Gov needs to spend a few billion to sort out some of the worst affected areas for the future, are we all going to agree to the taxes to pay for it? No, of course not. When people won't pay €100 a year for an essential water supply, you have no chance getting more money off them cos some folk in the West are getting flooded every winter.

They complain when they have to pay for water and they complain when the water is literately just outside their door for free! :pac:

oppenheimer1 · 09-12-2015 02:48PM

jamesbere wrote: »

Some basic flood defences would help some villages and towns, take bandon, it only had a 6 inches of water on the main streets so some adequate defences could of prevented that. I think what ticks off the people of bandon is they know it's not submerging the town and a basic defence could solve a lot of problems.

Now take some of the towns in england that got flooded they had adequate defences but the sheer volume of water breeched the defences they had. Flood defences don't guarantee prevention of flooding but in cases where minor flooding is causes so much damage something should be done.

If it was only 6 inches then the residents have only themselves to blame. Such low level flooding can relatively easily be defended at a household level.

Mahogany Gaspipe · 09-12-2015 03:01PM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

If it was only 6 inches then the residents have only themselves to blame. Such low level flooding can relatively easily be defended at a household level.

Honestly that shows complete ignorance regarding flooding.

Are you talking about six inches of standing water; or six inches of flowing water?

Flooding.

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