People hit by last summer's floods are bracing themselves for more misery as driving rain sweeps across western England and Wales.
Flood warnings have been put in place as forecasters predict heavy downpours and ferocious 70mph winds.
Have you been affected by the bad weather? What steps are you taking to keep your property safe - and has enough been done by the authorities to help?
Written by Sky News, January 15, 2008
Last summer my cousin got married and half the family couldnt turn up because of the floods :(
Theres some flooding in Tadley in Hants atm, being a small village surrounded by fields you have to go miles out of your way to get anywhere!!
Posted by: kate surrey Feb 12, 2008 11:48:32 AM
I personally think that if the government looked around the towns they would see that there are loads of empty houses. So, instead of building new houses on flood plains, why not renovate these perfectly fine houses?? My cousin's house was ruined in the floods last year!
Posted by: Colin McPeters Jan 28, 2008 10:05:23 AM
I think that you should stop building houses on flood plains and you should stop polluting the world and this will stop happenening
Posted by: Paul Mc-Cock, Scotland Jan 23, 2008 4:09:52 PM
Stop building houses on flood plains and this won't happen!
Posted by: Mike Hunt, Manchester Jan 23, 2008 11:33:46 AM
here in the netherlands we build roads high so when it rains alot it does block the roads with flooding.
Posted by: Dick Van-Ker, Netherlands Jan 23, 2008 10:49:43 AM
we've had rain for years. only reason there's flooding is because notsoclever property developers decide to build houses on any bit of spare land they see.don't build on flood plains and it won't flood as much. it don't take a genious.
Posted by: em, notts Jan 21, 2008 6:43:57 PM
I don't see why people are moaning that much if they got snow. It's the flooding that people should really be worried about.
Posted by: Ben Dover, Manchester Jan 21, 2008 6:36:55 PM
I notice that many local roads are near to being flooded once more. The floods always occour in the same spot and this is due to the road dipping down at this point. When the roads are closed it caused absolute havoc. It could of course be prevented by simply building up the road at the low spots. Hey presto, job done. Just divert some of the many thousands of tons of tarmac used for traffic calming. However, this solution seems to be too simple for the highways chappies, so we all have to suffer. Most civilised nations with roads prone to flooding (The Netherlands springs to mind) tend to raise the road above the level of the water. In the UK we tend to take the King Canute approach.
Posted by: Mark J Stafford UK Jan 21, 2008 4:41:47 PM
hi there
how many moore times do we have to put up with this flooding problem
before the weather improves the local councils and the goverment keep
on saying that they are doing all thier best on combating this flooding
problem it seems like a script for the plot for a scifi disaster movie
alls people can do is pu sandbags and other flood detterants out on thier doorsteps and streets if i was living in a area that is prone to flooding
i will consider on the idea of moving instead of staying put the
flooding is rediculas i do hope we see the end of this flooding.
yours faithfully
frankie smales
Posted by: frankie smales 'leeds Jan 21, 2008 2:50:44 PM
Was that a suttle critism to my earlier comment?
Sounds like we could have another climate change sceptic on our hands!
O dear!!
Posted by: Nav, Bath Jan 17, 2008 4:22:08 PM
South of the border rain,
Scotland has this and heavy snow DO they moan ? does traffic come to a halt ??/
The answer is NO ..Not long....
Soon you can moan about the HEATWAVE.. Look around you there is war and disasters
all over the world
Is this what our life has come to ...........
Posted by: LONDON Jan 17, 2008 1:54:09 PM
I am surprised nobody has paid any reference to the past two weeks rainfall as an early indication to the affects of CLIMATE CHANGE.
My view on it is its only going to get worse unless we take action, even then the effects of this will take a couple of years to come into force.
Lastly it still baffles me that in summer of 2006 we had severe drought with hosepipe ban enforced in many place throughout Britain.
Who was to know whilst everyone was struggling to save every drop of water, summer 2007 would be the complete opposite, where everyone was trying to get rid of it.
I say for summer 2008 we must prepare for all eventualities, how? Not to sure myself, but we have to in order to survive.
Posted by: Nav, Bath Jan 17, 2008 12:47:00 PM
Let's hope the local councils are better prepared this year and have got contingency plans in place. I can see insurance companies adding exclusions to the small print as we speak. Finally, better store some of this rain in readiness for the drought this summer because the water companies havn't thought of that yet.
Posted by: Adam, South Wales Jan 17, 2008 10:24:23 AM
I live in Dubai and it has rained so much this past 2 days the government have closed the schools........
Posted by: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Jan 17, 2008 8:30:52 AM
so sorry to hear about the tragic death of your new born piglets Julie as I'm sure you were.
Were the babies born to live out their lives naturally and live until a natural death or did you have other plans for their demise?
Posted by: Walter, Edinburgh Jan 15, 2008 10:44:40 PM
Its never stopped raining here for what seems like ages. Some roads here are flooded, the odd field is flooded and the rivers are quickly rising. In the last week we've had strong winds here too, but no wind tonight, just rain, rain and more rain :(
Posted by: Anon, Stockport, Cheshire Jan 15, 2008 9:23:34 PM
Try living in the North East, then you shall see proper rain.....
Posted by: James in Northumberland Jan 15, 2008 5:24:44 PM
It makes me laugh that the local council allowed all that housing on the Tewkesbury flood plains, yet are surprised when the whole town floods. Where did they expect the water to go when they take away natural flood plains.
Posted by: Ian Jan 15, 2008 4:45:24 PM
I havent seen any rain in London....
Posted by: Paul Jan 15, 2008 4:09:12 PM
Absoultey devastating i don't the Thames to Burst it's banks!.
Posted by: Atif London Jan 15, 2008 3:53:25 PM
Nuneaton claims to be at or near the centre of England. Yet roads are flooded, streams are overflowing. People arrive at a flooded road slowly, then floor the gas to get through the flood. They fail; they get stuck. Debris all across the roads; top soil being washing away.
Posted by: Edward, Nuneaton Jan 15, 2008 12:52:48 PM
We have been affected by the floods as the amount of rain coming off the Malvern hills swept down into our barn and drowned a new born litter of 9 piglets.
Posted by: Julie Malvern Worcestershire Jan 15, 2008 11:55:15 AM
Houses are being built without any regard to the surrounding area and the inferstructure that supports them,roads that never used to flood are now flooding,Councils let builders put up more houses with no regard to improving roads drainage and other services,just cram them in and hope for the best.
Posted by: DENNIS HERTS Jan 15, 2008 10:54:20 AM
Naturally no matter what local authorities do "BJ Thomas" they cannot defy nature as "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head". Luckily, years of practice has ensured the drains are kept clear at all times and valuables are moved to higher than normal places, so as not to affect many a taxing adjudictaion.
Posted by: Khalid Jan 15, 2008 10:51:16 AM