RIVER THIS MORNING.

Goodness me, that is high! What a worry!

Crikey!

WE LIVE UP THE HILL FROM HERE. IT HAS FLOODED BEFORE BUT THERE IS A HIGHER WAY THROUGH TO THE SHOPS VIA THE COUNTRY LANES. I FEEL SORRY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THEIR HOMES FLOODED.

The rivers near us look like this one, just a tiny bit of the arches left.

Wow I ve been watching the Welsh Floods and Yorkshire Cornish too on you tube let's hope this stays at bay but doubt it with having storm Ellen also Frances and Gerda to come yet around March time. Good photo Lindak.

There are many rivers like this sadly. The Hull has over topped at Tickton again.

I am so sad for all the people who have lost everything, some for the second or even third time in a decade. We who live up hills are counting our blessings. As a nation, we must change our attitude towards flood plains. They are not suitable for building on. Simple. And also our attitude to front gardens...they are not for concreting and making into car parking. These things are simple common sense. We don't even need the Government to see this....just the planners and all the home owners to take responsibility.

They continue in most areas now Karen to building loads of flats homes but not enough space for parking for visitors or even the amount of homes built . They dont take into account houses that are converted into a lot of flats when the house should be just for one family. So in most cases I agree with you. We need vegetation more close to rivers etc. I was always taught at 12 years old at school the more barriers you put in to stop floods it will flood else where further down .

If my front garden was turned into a drive no one would be able to park out side my house blocking me from getting out in my wheelchair to get to the slope to cross to the local shops as my chair cant go down a curb more than 3 inch. I shall place a photo for you as an example of being blocked in where a worker left his van for days so I could nt get out to the shops as there is no other dropped curb for me except this one he left his van there to be picked up for work even though I phoned his works all they did was give me verbal abuse . We have two churchs weddings funerals baptistising shops doctors dentist gym deliverys a nursery very close by and they all park in this small lane where I live putting lives at risk.

Sorry Lindak for taking over your page to Karen but I cant send pm s at present.

THANKYOU EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR COMMENTS....WITH MORE PEOPLE THERE ARE BOUND TO BE MORE HOUSES WITH GROUNDSPACE COVERED, THIS LEADS TO MORE FLOODING AS THERE IS MORE WATER POURING FROM THE INCREASED ESTATES. IT NEEDS THE HEDGEROWS AND TREES TO BE REPLACED IN THE FIELDS, AND THE RIVERS DREDGED MORE TOO AS THEY MUST SILT UP. ANOTHER THING IS THE CLIMATE CHANGE WITH THE ICE CAPS AND GLACIERS MELTING AT A FASTER SPEED THAN THEY PREDICTED. THAT MAKES THE OCEANS WARMER, DAMAGING THAT ENVIRONMENT AND THE CREATURES THAT LIVE WITHIN IT, AND OF COUSE THAT ALSO CHANGES THE AIRFLOWS (HIGHS AND LOWS) WITH THE WEATHER, AND THAT'S A PROBLEM FOR EVERYTHING ON THIS PLANET AS IT HEATS UP. WITH AMERICA AND CHINA GOING BACK TO USING COAL WILL NOT HELP EITHER. IN THIS COUNTRY WE ARE TRYING TO HELP IN OUR OWN WAYS, BUT WILL THE FOOD MANUFACTURERS AND SUPERMARKETS BE ABLE TO STOP SELLING CERTAIN FOODS IN PLASTIC OR PLASTIC CONTAINERS? I WONDER!!!

Sorry I cant reply Lindak by pm but thank you for your kind thoughts I have tried applying for a parking box but was denied it as I am opposite a junction . Our councillors mps are useless here and pluss put business before any one else even though this van business does nt come from our city but a town near by that they have shared interests in as it comes under our cv code we have to travel 120 miles to get of its influence as my sister discovered when she took legal proceedings and won. The driver threatened me the owner of the business was Irish and I had nt better complain again as he blocked me again knowing my situation as where I am a big part of this city is run by the Irish mps councillors. So I told him a part of my family come from Ireland if he wants to play that game he left very quickly after that.

As for your knowledge above you are correct that we need more hedge rows and trees when they built houses and bungalows on a wildlife ground side of the canatpp of the lane here they had trouble as they were not allowed to destroy a tudour hedge row which the builders told me it was a nightmare.
Another reason we have so much flooding is because we are by law not allowed to use the wells underground we have several here even in a church yard sealed off so when it rains like in Hereford who have wells too that's why it floods so fast there even though they blame the Welsh for mist of their floods.

I would welcome glass bottles as the plastics are killing the fish it recently killed a rare specimen fish creature only one in existence when asked on the documentary what will it do to us over time the scientist in the lab said they dont know they are trying to find out.
As of your query if supermarkets with plastic one of my grandsons is a manager of Tesco and told me they will be going back to glass but when he does not know.

Double yellows are on the opposite sides of the junction both ways Lindak except out side mine as a couple on a caravan site top of the lane who attends council meetings asked for the double yellows to be put there as the large house on the opposite corner to me on the junction tells any one who moves in to park out side my house as one of his new neighbours told me so in order they dont take his parking space as he has two cars and he has double yellows out side his house . Yet others in the lane pay to park up in the church yard car park next door to me in order for the emergency services to get through especially to the caravan park. Even when I had a car they would take my space so I would have to park top of my lane out side some one elses house which they did nt like either. Yet if any one parks out side my next door neighbours house the man opposite tells them not park in her space .