BUILDING ON FLOOD PLAINS IS JUST PLAIN CRAZY?

[forfismum]

Been happening for a lot longer than one year.Not the phone line........the flooding,want to borrow my diving gear while I go party ?

[J.R.P.]

Hi ALL, FLOODING COULD BE A RECURRING NIGHTMARE as reported in a News paper dated the 30-9-2008.
BRITAIN faces a growing number of DEVASTATING spring FLOODS followed by DROUGHTS climate experts warned.
EUROPE is WARMING FASTER than the world average, and this will RESULT in a WETTER NORTH and a DESERT-LIKE MEDITERRANEAN REGION, they said.
BRITAIN will SUFFER because our 'return period' - meteorological jargon for the time between EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS - is .getting shorter.
FLOODS THAT OCCURRED ONCE EVERY 100 YEARS COULD HAPPEN EVERY DECADE.
EXPERTS FROM all over EUROPE were brought together to STUDY computer models of the way WORLD CLIMATE is likely to go BASED ON RECENT EVENTS.
THE TEAMS - from the EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY, the WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION and the EUROPEAN COMMISSION - concluded that although Britain will get more rain, it will come mostly in spring deluges. Unless we find ways of channelling and saving this water, it will be lost, to be followed by summer droughts, said a flood expert. He added 'FLOODS IN BRITAIN MAY INCREASE BY 40 PERCENT, OR EVEN MORE.'
The EXPERTS also WARNED that in EUROPE, FOUR MILLION PEOPLE and £2BILLION of ASSETS could be AT RISK OF FLOODING BY 2100,
WHY. BECAUSE TWO-THIRDS OF ALPINE GLACIERS HAVE VANISHED SINCE 1850, they said.

(me) Like I've suggested before. ( IF ) we change the way we build all our buildings to every one having a garage or car parking underneath, this will give us straight away at least 10ft or more before it ment maybe moving everything higher if they were built on a floodplain or not, I can't see any problems with raising the roofs like we do loft extensions on most homes built now to use roof space, for example what the Government could do is make all houses have roofs fitted with sola roof tiles like some houses are fitted with in America. These could supply electricity and along with sola panel could supply hot water too, plus you can add wind power, and wave power to this on a large scale, resulting in BRITAIN being SELF-SUFFICIENT.
I believe this would reduce this countries energy bill, helping to pay for it ( ALL ) over a period of time, of course with so much energy being produced we could then run our vehicles, our trains our trams and anything else which we need
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT as usual MAKING MONEY TAKES TOP PRIORITY.
ALL I'M SAYING IS, THESE COULD BE PRODUCED AND DONE ON SHUCH A LARGE SCALE over a short period of time FOR EXAMPLE, BY SO MANY PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A JOB NOW, WHICH COULD HELP TO CHANGE THE WHOLE WAY WE LIVE OUR LIVES NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, DONE IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS, which other countries might not have thouht of doing because they are so poor or so rich to do anything about it, but we could JUST LIKE NUTURE, IT WILL HAVE TO COPE WITH OUR CLIMATE CHANGE TO in many different ways in order to suvive in EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS, that we have no control over.
May you and yours and what you grow live long and happy. John.J.R.P.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by J.R.P.

(me) Like I've suggested before. ( IF ) we change the way we build all our buildings to every one having a garage or car parking underneath, this will give us straight away at least 10ft or more before it ment maybe moving everything higher if they were built on a floodplain or not.

Developers wouldn't get planning permission to build new residential houses in the flood plain now anyway.

[J.R.P.]

Hi ALL, MILLIONS 'IN DENIAL' OVER RISK OF MORE FLOODING as reported in a News paper dated the 30-11-2008.
BRITAIN is in a " state of denial" about the risk of MASSIVE FLOODS ACROSS THE COUNTRY and is doing almost nothing to protect people from DANGER.
FIVE MILLION now LIVE in areas AT RISK of being swamped and most of them ARE AWARE of the DANGERS, according to official estimates.
BUT the Government's chief adviser on 2007 FLOODS, Sir Michael Pitt, said: that ANOTHER 3.5 MILLION PEOPLE WERE NEAR RESERVOIRS and IN DANGER of SERIOUS FLOODS, BUT they HAD NO IDEA.
COUNCILS have FAILED TO WARN many of them and others have NOT BOTHERED TO FIND OUT the potential RISK.
Sir Michael said he was "SHOCKED" to find that most of the HOMES in HULL, GLOUESTERSHIRE and OXFORDSHIRE that were badly FLOODED LAST YEAR had NOT been fitted with ANY PROTECTION even though they were likely to be FLOODED AGAIN.
He said: "People are in denial about flooding - they don't want to admit they are at RISK."
HOUSEHOLDERS were often RELUCTANT TO TAKE FLOOD PREVENTION MEASURES because of the FEAR they might detract from the value of their PROPERTY and so when REPAIRING houses AFTER FLOODING they "FOOLISHLY" FAILED to TAKE PRECAUTIONS against a REPEAT EXPERIENCE.

(Me)
As I now understand it, all building are now built with the chance of flooding in mind, so someone might have listened to my crys for change. to help save lives in the UK.
Only time will tell, in the meantime. May I be one of the first to wish you and yours a VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR 2009. John.J.R.P.