Stormy near Keswick…..

He’s probably thrown an immersion element in there, emptied the cupboard of beans and got himself an indoor jacuzzi.

(subsequent comments are amusing)

Hang on, has that gone too? Portinscale Bridge is the one at the north end of Derwent Water, the little cycle/foot bridge here

Reports of the demise of the footbridge are a little hasty – still there and awaiting inspection. The Portinscale bridge reported closed was the A66 road bridge, but it’s fine.

(subsequent comments are amusing)

+1

He is considering a swimming pool tax

🙂

Hi All
We stayed at Bridge cottage off Forge road this August beautiful spot but right on the river,lower floor was only couple of feet above the river level then. Hope those ancient bridges which cross the river survive.

Saddened to see the old railway bridge in the previous posts,

Hope all are safe

It really is staggering seeing stuff thats been familiar since I was a kid now gone. People are looking at another long haul to get back to normality 😥

smartay – Member

Hi All
We stayed at Bridge cottage off Forge road this August beautiful spot but right on the river, hope those ancient bridges which cross the river survive. Saddened to see the old railway bridge in the previous posts,

The upper stream side of the forge bridge has collapsed but I recall it did that at some time in the 80’s as I remember having a look at it on BMX’s so hopefully it can be fixed.

Hope those ancient bridges which cross the river survive.

Our Kendal yard was under 5ft of water yesterday – loads of houses nearby as well. Grimness.

Staggering, leaning against the now missing wall having a drink back in the summer.
How did the houses around, it fare.
There was a caravan site just up from us Brandlehow? that must of been washed away

There was a caravan site just up from us Brandlehow? that must of been washed away

Wasn’t one of the bridges destroyed by a mobile home floating down the river and smacking into it? That may have been Brandlehow, I saw a picture of a site which had lost 9 static homes, 2 of them into the river, the others just smashed up by the water but not actually carried off downstream.

Wasn’t one of the bridges destroyed by a mobile home floating down the river and smacking into it?

Someone on Facebook said something along the lines of: “Yeah, sorry, I think that was one of ours. We’ve lost a few. Can we have it back please?” 😆

There was a caravan site just up from us Brandlehow? that must of been washed away

I do hope they had insurance, otherwise they’ve literally lost everything….

Has anyone in government noticed this yet? its clearly not as important as bombing some brown people. Maybe if a wheelie bin had been submerged in the Thames Valley…..

Dave’s on his way (swoon) pretty soon he’ll be announcing the value of the budget that the EA already have and committing to not immediately forgetting where he has just been – after all he gets his sausages from Borough Market and they come from that northy place he’s just forgotten the name of and for the SE to be without totally traceable organic saltmarsh lamb would be worse than a suicide bomber in the elderflower presse factory

He’ll turn up and blame the EA for spending less on flood barriers when they could have saved a few billion through efficiency savings. The EA will then politely point out he halved their budget….

Has anyone in government noticed this yet? its clearly not as important as bombing some brown people. Maybe if a wheelie bin had been submerged in the Thames Valley…..

It’s a bit much to make it a North vs South thing. It certainly seems to have had a lot more attention than 2005 when we were sat in the middle of one of britain’s largest peacetime evacuations not making it to the top of the radio news*.

*Not sure about tv, we didn’t get power back for 8 days.

Not sure where this is but not what you expect a high street to look like;

Lemonysam – with regard to the TV news this time, including the BBC, so not just comedy tabloid ITV news…. Some mental bloke stabbing someone in a tube station was the first item on. The fact that increasingly large chunks of Northern England was disappearing underwater at the same time was deemed secondary to that.

Make of that what you will

binners – Member

Has anyone in government noticed this yet? its clearly not as important as bombing some brown people. Maybe if a wheelie bin had been submerged in the Thames Valley…..

Sadly it’s not quite that simple… in the Thames Valley a couple of years back now we had mass flooding too.. we lost several house sales because of it… You can’t just make the water go away no matter how many resources you throw at it.

We had dozens of fire service crews etc, we had pumps working 24×7 for a week pumping it away.. more by luck that anything we stopped our house being flooded.

He’ll turn up and blame the EA for spending less on flood barriers when they could have saved a few billion through efficiency savings. The EA will then politely point out he halved their budget….

Certain elements of the news are already trying to twist the conversation around to blaming the EA and the flood defences.

The problem with the news now is that basically all the drama is over, there’s a limit to how much helicopter footage of flooded fields you can show so they’ve resorted now to interviewing the poor people trying to sort their houses, businesses and lives out and the hardworking MRT, emergency services etc – all of who have already been up for 36hrs and are probably not in the mood for dealing with asinine questions from idiots sticking a camera in their face and saying “the flood defences must be crap cos hey, your house is under 3ft of water…”

Some mental bloke stabbing someone in a tube station was the first item on. The fact that increasingly large chunks of Northern England was disappearing underwater at the same time was deemed secondary to that.

Sorry binners. A terrorist incident is much more newsworthy than a normal natural event that happens basically every year at some point. And is exactly the same each time it happens.

You can’t spin that into a Southern centric news agenda rant.

It wasn’t a terrorist incident though, was it? It was mental illness incident. They happen all the time. Just one that happened in London, so was therefore terribly important. More important than the highest rainfall ever recorded in the north, and the monumental amount of damage it was doing

You can’t spin that into a Southern centric news agenda rant.

Watch me…. 😀

A terrorist incident

Hmm, one nutter stabs someone (non fatally) is hardly a terrorist incident in my book……

Happens all the time in London, just this one shouted Syria amongst his deranged ramblings….

We have the same Nirth/South divide in Scotland 😐
This is causing much debate here in Dumfries;
http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=12392
Given what’s happened in Cumbria a rethink may be appropriate…. There is no simple solution, others are likely to suffer if this scheme goes ahead.
I’m not sure if it’s our inept council that has been the cause of the delays in any scheme going ahead or not but Perth and Inverness managed to get their schemes implemented before Dumfries 🙄

Hope Brian at whinlatter bikes in Keswick is back on his feet soon. Everyone forgets the little shops

Needs better catchment management rather than building walls – just look at the fileds near threlkeld (now and attenuation scheme – but previoulsy) basically shifting all the water off the land as fas as possible, channelling a river in a town has the same effect, we need more trees, wetlands and sacrificial attenuation not more concrete.

(that said with foot of rain in 24hrs this incident was pretty unique and way outside what’s modelled for even for re-wilding/sustainable flood schemes)

Hmm, one nutter stabs someone (non fatally) is hardly a terrorist incident in my book……

Someone? It was noteworthy, no matter how bitter and Northern you are.

Binners, have you ever considerd that London might actually BE more important than Manchester?

Someone? It was noteworthy, no matter how bitter and Northern you are.

It really wasn’t. It was an exercise in hysterical, paranoid overreaction

Binners, have you ever considerd that London might actually BE more important than Manchester?

Not really the point, is it? Whats it got to do with Manchester? The question is: Is someone stabbing someone at a tube station more important than a massive amount of flooding over a huge area of the country? Tens of thousands without electricity, absolutely huge amounts of damage?With repercussions that will go on for years

Apparently so. So we all know where we stand, don’t we? If we were ever in doubt. S’all I’m saying’ dude!

Anyway…. whatevs….back on topic, it’ll be interesting to see how Dave’s going to spin this one when he makes his annual trip up north (there be dragons). Its only a few years back he was promising millions in flood defence investment, only to cancel a lot of that once it was out of the headlines.

And where are they going to land Air Force One?

oh dear a decent thread terns in to handbags at dawn. Give yourselves a shake

Just looking at the mountains of horrific pictures on the web this morning, looks like they’ll have to rename Pooley Bridge to simply Pooley 🙁 An absolute nightmare considering some sewerage will be mixed in with rain water washing into people’s homes.

Turning a thread about people haven’t their houses wrecked into a north/south divide thing,bighitters lose touch with reality in their own little internet world shocker.

Hmm, one nutter stabs someone (non fatally) is hardly a terrorist incident in my book……

Eh??1!1!1! Course it was, he was brown, or something.

Binners, have you ever considerd that London might actually BE more important than Manchester?

You’re right Molgrips, us plebish plebs really should know our place. Swoons@TheSouth.

As a London resident with quite a few friends in the Lakes and someone who plans on retiring there, if not earlier, given the extent of the damage to homes and businesses and the longer term impact on the local economy, this should be considered a national-scale crisis. But I suspect it’ll drop out of the headlines soon enough and out of political consciousness…

Partly, the Lakes in my experience is full of friendly, resourceful and community-minded people and they’ll pull together and deal with it without expecting massive amounts of outside help in a way which we probably wouldn’t in London where we’re massively dependent on government-provided infrastructure and commercial supply chains, I suspect people’s response would be a lot less stoic!

It was noteworthy, no matter how bitter and Northern you are.

Yep, born and bred in that great Northern ghetto known as Cambridge. All those years down the Fenland coal mines and I’m still not bitter…

And I still don’t think it’s a terrorist incident, that’s just ‘political spin’ gone mad.

Friends have just moved to about 6 miles up the valley from Garnet Bridge, they didnt get flooded but cut off and found a Crayfish walking along the flooded road trying to find somewhere safe. If the local wildlife is struggling what people must be going through is unimaginable.

Dave’s on his way (swoon)

I’d give him a pair of wellies and invite him in to shovel some shit.

I’d give him a pair of wellies

he already has several sets, Hunters for weekends in the Cotswolds and then some cheap Asda ones he sent his aide out to buy so he didn’t look too posh the last time he inspected flooding….

Before a visit to the flooded Somerset Levels in 2014, Cameron fretted that his pair of green Hunter wellies (£95) would be seen as too posh, so he dispatched an aide to buy some bargain boots from Asda. These were Dunlops, the cheap choice of every flood-savvy politician from Ed Miliband to Nick Clegg. Later, however, Lynton Crosby, the Tories’ election guru, discovered that one reason voters gave for believing that the PM was too posh was “seeing him on television during the floods wearing a shiny new pair of black wellingtons”. This is odd, because Cameron’s boots were green and not visibly shiny. But the anecdote shows the PM’s political antenna is sound – Philip Hammond, the former defence secretary, was mocked for tackling the Somerset floods in expensive Hunters – but his execution flawed. Presumably now when Cameron wears a new piece of clothing, he has a lackey scuff it up for him.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2015/aug/31/david-cameron-10-seldon-book-biography-prime-minister

Fair enough. Apologies. Very crass and insensitive of me. I just mentioned it as it provoked an ‘Oh FFS!!!” moment when I turned on the news on Saturday to see how Keswick was, and was met with it being led by a bloke being (non-fatally) stabbed at a tube station. Its just an interesting, yet entirely unsurprising, set of media priorities

We abandoned the national TV news at that point, and went to regional web feeds instead.

Thats my last word on it then. Apologies again

Ok so the comment about Manchester was a troll, I own up and apologise if it annoyed anyone properly.

However, in seriousness, I didn’t say it was more ‘important’, I said it was more newsworthy. That means that people are more likely to be interestd in it, watch it, talk about it. News isn’t based on what’s important, it’s based on what will stimulate people’s interest. Otherwise we’d hear nothing else apart from atrocities, poverty and deprivation in far flung parts of the world.

I’d certain hope a whole lot more money is spent on the flood victims up North than the people wounded in the knife attack – and it will be – you can use that as a measure of importance if you like.

You’re right Molgrips, us plebish plebs really should know our place. Swoons@TheSouth.

Somehwat lightheartedly – I’m not Southern, I’m Welsh, so if you want to have a downtrodden/oppressed/dismissed as irrelevant fight, then I fancy my chances 🙂

Oh and, website headlines:

BBC: Flooding
Guardian: Flooding/ISIS
Independent: ISIS (flooding sub-headline)
Telegraph: Flooding

Do you really have a problem?