Town cut off as Britain is battered by more heavy rain
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- čas přidán 3. 01. 2024
- The Gloucestershire town of Tewkesbury is one of many areas struggling to cope with serious flooding.
More heavy rain on Thursday evening is expected to exacerbate the situation across southern parts of England.
Hundreds of flood warnings are in place ahead of what is expected to be the final soaking before clearer and colder weather arrives by the weekend.
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What does anyone expect when flood plains are being built on everywhere. Water cannot get through concrete as it can through soil. Water will find its own level and extend further afield when pasture land is no longer available because of housing, roads etc.
Exactly good comment
Hear hear.
Exactly correct. Why continue to stay in these places, housing needs to be put on higher ground, or build them on stilts!
First of all my heart goes out to those people in Tewkesbury . Tewkesbury was not built on a flood plain , the problem here the river seven has not been dredged in years .... the big boats now lying in Gloucester docks can no longer navigate the river because of the silt that has built up . Hope this helps . Take care .
exactly, who will choose to live there it is ridiculous
It all starts when 25 years ago the councils got rid of the men who dug out the ditches by hand on the country roads and lanes. Since then its gone from bad to worse. The water has to get away, the ditches got the water away, now the roads are flooded, good husbandry has gone right out of the window. Its all interconnected.
So true ditches were cleaned out also rivers and ponds but now it’s not done to protect newts etc andyes concrete driveways instead of gardens
Everyone says this on CZcams….because they’ve read other people stating it. The ditches run into the rivers. The rivers are flooding. Digging more ditches will do nothing.
@@annoyingbstard9407 It's funny how the Dutch can sort their Low lands out and we cannot.
Cleaning ditches does make a huge difference. Maybe not in riverside locations but in the countryside. I drove back from Evesham to Shropshire last night. The worst flooding was not by rivers. It was in open countryside where gully's and ditches and drains were blocked. Councils should stop spending in translations for migrants and DEI and spend on infrastructure.
@@vickyingramnymann8543 I live in the countryside and the biggest problems are caused by runoff from fields. Every field has a muddy stream coming from it. The problem is that the land is over efficiently drained. Just too much water coming from everywhere at once. It overwhelms everything . All the marshlands have been drained and the moors over grazed . In the summer we run out of water because the land no longer holds it because everything is now completely drained . The rivers never used to fill with topsoil anywhere as quick as they do now.
I bet there are hundreds of new homes built up stream on the flood plains. Same old story.
And old homes built 200 years ago - also on flood planes. It's not a new phenomenon.
@@sideshowbob5237mate the point is that we should have learned to stop building houses next to rivers after hundreds of years of flooding. absolutely nothing learned at all
The houses shown here aren’t new homes. The people say they’ve NEVER seen it so bad.
@@sideshowbob5237they were very rarely in danger of flood before careless thoughtless profit motivated excessive building went into overdrive.....putting numerous small streams/ rivers into underground pipes and culverts destroys natural drainage....we are not in charge of the earth.....the earth is in charge of us...
Serious rain and storm after storm its getting Serious now climate change is d issue no matter what some people say😮😮😮
Hundreds and thousands of new build - houses and warehouses- the area of land where rain can soak away is diminishing more and more.
We’re literally at saturation point!
Watched interesting video on CZcams where farmer was having issues with environmental agency who hadn't cleared streams and river bed for years and the flow of water was clogged because it was full of reeds. He did the work himself and said leave the land to those who know what they're doing not university graduates in suits.
I love his reply
These Uni . types think they know everything. I have lived for a few decades and still am learning
1:24
Husband: This is terrible!
Wife: Hiiii, I'm on TV! 😂
Noticed that too lol, at least she had a sense of humour about it 😂
Wife: like a holiday in Venice. Free gondola ride.
Keep Calm and Carry On.
Silly old boomer
This on TV and holidaying in Venice.....but the last one is legend like riding a pony in Venice of course....
Stop building houses on flood plains ,they are there for a reason 🤔
but..... my precious money 😢
It’s like asking people not to build houses around volcanoes or places with earthquakes
Hey just a thought. Why not go back to the good old days when councils would pump out road gulleys regular,dredge all rivers which is a proven fact works,oh and stop building houses on old overflow marsh land. But hey who are we sensible folk to suggest such a thing.
my thoughts exactly...sadly there are millions of pounds in back handed payments to be had for building permissions on green belt and flood plain land...im betting mr wimpey or mr jelson dont live on low ground.but on the bright side,just think how bad the eviromental damage of the destruction of our trees,hedgerows and green land would be if we were not all paying these extra taxes to go green and save the planet from climate change.sadly for me im one of these humans who cannot breathe money so i guess my days are numbered
Well said both comments
Well said 👏
some idiot will still say its climate change lol
Nope impossible to dredge rivers....Water voles are more important than people...
They stroke planners & EA, dont have the sense they were born with....THEY have allowed floodplains to be built on, or made into wildlife zones, so we have lost the tidal bulge relief grounds....To mitigate in part councils and others are now trying to hold water longer upstreme, so more roads are required to flood, for water storage...
Here in somerset, the river Parret used to be spilled out on a vast area, no longer allowed cos it might but wont damage the orchids...
Councils are giving planning permission for millions of new homes a year, in the UK, with no thought to flood plains, balancing lakes, or any management of the water levels.
It's not climate change, but a result of corruption, greed, and bad planning.
It’s to house millions of the invaders that are washing up on our shores everyday of the year. These new houses are not for decent English people. And there are millions more coming here.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 More people!
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 To house all the illegals.
And yet only 250,000 houses are built per year. These millions of planning permissions must be getting lost somewhere, possibly in flood waters.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 because the population is increasing
At least no crocodiles and snakes in water, warm thoughts from flooded Queensland, Australia ;)
yes very true. have been to Daintree, flooding there would be an absolute nightmare, we are certainly luckier here, though there will be sewage in the water
Tomorrow maybe we get the politicians?
Oh, different snakes and crocodiles.
The primary reason this happens is because most councils are unwilling to spend what is needed to dredge rivers, make them deeper and clean them. One of the things that annoys me so badly is our canal waters are utterly disgusting. Its the ONLY thing i'd agree with environmentalists on, our canals and rivers need to be tended too heavily, it can't be put off anymore.
Absolutely not true. It's the EA that's stopping river dredging happening.
I absolutely agree. Meanwhile, Government turns a blind eye. Other countries would have declared a State of Emergency by now and deployed their civil defence force (which UK used to have but was disbanded) The army, navy and air force are rarely deployed as Government maintains it's the job of Local Authorities to request forces help. In turn, Councils won't ask because they know they'll be charged! It's also crazy that the police are expected to do rescue tasks whilst the criminal has a free hand.
Dredging rivers increases the capacity of the river but can just "push" the problem further downstream and cause flooding there instead.
What about all these houses going up that we don't need? That's a lot to do with it,
if people only knew that stopping everyone dredging rivers all over the uk would lead to all this flooding 30 yrs down the line 😑
I remember once upon a time while growing up we saw the water board would be out most days clearing drains..... Funny how we haven't seen that so much over the last 20+ years..... I think i have only seen 3 in that time..... Every time i see flooding it has been due to blocked road drains and the water has nowhere to go apart from flooding the area........
Ugh reminds me of summer of 2007 when Gloucestershire was flooded to the point that the water treatment centre had flooded and there was no clean running water for 2 weeks. The army had to be called in to help dispense bottled water and big water containers on each street so everyone could have drinking water and water to boil for cooking (then left over water used to wash down the toilets....). Tewkesbury Abbey was safe then too as it's on a hill so won't get flooded. Luckily I lived in Cheltenham so wasn't flooded like in Tewkesbury. Also my grandparents were living in Malvern and not affected at all and let us do laundry/tumble dry everything, have showers, got us big bottles of water, and my grandma even cooked up a round of bacon butties for everyone
Ok boomer this isn’t story time
shout out to your grandma for the bacon butties! lovely
We used to live in an old Victorian house in Worcester by the river, we rented it, no one told us anything about flooding, we'd been there a couple of years, no flooding, then one day i opened the cellar door and the water was up to nearly the top step! It was the water table, as the river was flooded, but not up to our road or anything. The mould was awful, landlord wouldn't do anything, so after another year we moved. Worcester floods every year. 2007 was bad, had to get an army truck into work!
The northern edge of the town of Tewkesbury sees the confluence of the River Avon, and the longest river in the UK, the River Severn.
The River Severn drains a vast area and is beyond practical control following unusually prolonged rain. It also carries excess water from Welsh reservoirs.
I lived in the Severn valley, and worked in Tewkesbury,
40 years ago. Flooding was a regular occurrence then, it will be so in 40 years time. Geography and Nature.
common sense prevails , good comment
Why would they build houses there, then? Many if not most of these houses we saw in the video are younger than 40.
@@bluceree7312 Those houses (in Tewkesbury) are probably over 100 years old, at least pre 1960's (look at the windows) but probably much older.
Then rebuild houses so the house isn't affected ie build a garage on the bottom level so the house isn't destroyed by the water. Or move away from a flood plain.
The blame will be climate change.
this is exactly why my bedroom is upstairs
That’s barely the bottom 1/3 of the UK, not ‘the southern half’
Try dredging the rivers like we use to.
The church is nice and dry; makes me think they knew something we didn't.
Yes, they built churches on the highest bit of land. It's miraculous
Yeah tht hazrat esa is the prophet of Allah.😊
@missahmed2220
The black stone satanic pagan god
@@JP-lz3vk So everyone had to look up to see it.
@@missahmed2220 Sod Allah!!!
Tories cut spending on river defences when they urgently needed increasing.
And labour will do what ?
Water can only go downhill to the rivers and then to the sea. If the rivers are overflowing there's nowhere else for the water to go.
Flood defences can help some areas but usually create problems both upstream and downstream.
What've they not cut spending on at this point
@@markalufcbuy bigger sand bags 🙄😂
Well, they had to pay for the lockdown parties somehow.
Poor people but we all know they are still building in flood plains all over the country. Groan.
Most houses in the UK are on ground level-no porch or foundation to raise them.
well said and they keep building them like that
@@beaulieuc8910 Like for thousands of years. 99.99% of the time doing anything else is pointless.
That's because most houses in the UK don't need to be raised..... 🤦🏻♀🤔
My thoughts and prayers to all affected in the UK . -from the USA 🇺🇸
Send us a dustpan and brush it would be infinitely more useful.
Thanks for your kind thoughts and prayers 🙏🏻🤍
In Surrey, everyone pais their council tax but the drains are not cleaned. Roads flood. The council is negligent pure and simple.
Pretty sure this is the same everywhere.
But it’s a far better class of flooding than up north.
Get yourselves a different Council then.
Same in Bristol. Many road drains have been completely blocked for years, even light showers and they flood.
Wow 16 years, as long ago as that!
Tewksbury gets this every year.. And they continue to build on this flood plain. And just up the Severn is Upton. Upton upon Severn. Locally known as Upton under Severn. This huge river with its Welsh catchment area during the winter sees vast amounts of water.
Who are the developers...and what is the demographic of the people who move in just as a general observation.....im doing some research on this,
If it's any consolation, it hit us in Dk at -3 and I got 6ft snow drifts blocking the garage and back door. Only just got the floor dry from pre Christmas floods, so actually nice to have the snow this time.
That guy getting interviewed on the kayak as he was being dragged away was like a sketch from Brass Eye 🤣🤣🤣
Give that man a cigar
If my cat doesn’t leave with me, I’m not going anywhere. I’d be devastated if I had to go through that. Hope everyone remains safe 🤞
Maybe stop cloud seeding every frigging day.
On my local river we have teams of volunteers who clean it up because council useless, they don’t even dredge it anymore.
Shrewsbury has same problem
I see water being pumped but where does pumped water go??
Next village...
Back into the river...
Rem when the councils stopped cleaning out the drains every year.
Nor dredging the rivers and land drainage.
Maybe, but slowing the flow is possibly a better solution.
We are getting much more rain than was 'unusual' (once in a generation), last century.
Is it councils who are responsible or the water companies?
Dredge the rivers, clear the drains would be a good start
It hasn't stopped raining for more than 3 days anywhere near me since september. This last happened 3-4 years ago and this Christmas/ New year period is exactly the same as last year, give or take. I work outside so don't need the weather report to tell me.
bless everyone from the Renton WA, USA
Thankyou!❤
Interesting weather this year (first time home in 10 years, though). Where I live in the North West, we had a torrential downpour and a thunderstorm lol
On a smaller but equally important scale how about everyone stops clogging the gutters in the street with litter which causes bad flooding on the main road by my home. Yesterday I pulled umpteen flattened drinks cans & bottles out of the grille & surprisingly (!) the water started draining away fast instead of flooding the road & roundabout.
Also stop concreting over gardens causing more excess water to end up on the street & overwhelming drainage gutters - which are blocked with litter.
Here in Bristol, the City Council have a policy of never unblocking road drains. From what I can see 25% have been blocked for years.
@@lemming9984 Hm, that doesn't help either.
That doesn t look good. Poor people!
The town council has met with the city council and apparently shared their findings with the provincial government to ensure a plan would be implemented should a large scale evacuation occur. This is how it’s done in Britain.
I've got pals that live in Tewkesbury near the park. A few years ago they were canoeing in and out of their house, luckily up a small rise.
They seem to be good spirits regardless
That always is a little bit helpful in times of despair and struggles.
Well done Rishi.
Yeah, let's blame Rishi for everything 😂😂😂
Doubt the jumped up little W***er even knows where it is, but they have all been the same, if it doesn't effect London it never happened.
Damn clever of those 12th Century Benedictine Monks not building the Abbey on a flood plain.
Oh god how do these people manage? And in some areas people are being flooded year on year. Horrendous for them.
Tewkesbury and Upton always cut off was in 70,s an annual event lasting months the roads had water height marker posts up to 10 ft
There were more giggling ladies in this than expected
Wow that's bad but still nothing like the old days..especially in the 60s but it was even much worse during 30s
When humans think it's ok to build on flood plains.
Stratford on Avon, Shocking Scenes from there
These houses are Victorian, and the Victorians never built on flood plains. With all the new builds on flood plains since the 60s, the water is going to the older Victorian areas. The Environment Agency has been saying for decades that we shouldn't build on flood plains but they have no power to enforce it.
Isnt it winter as well in the UK??
Naturally.
A big fix by controllers of councils not clearing and maintaining drains with the hope that these floods can be used for the climate lie, aka "The great Electricity rip off"
Yeah, a drain would get rid of that water.
I couldn't live in Tewkesbury no way
Notice the thumbnail and how the medieval church is built on the ground that doesn't flood.
3 Cats code noted.. 3C = 33. with the CAT Code Ident.
Seeing this is real sad,I’m so glad I don’t live near any water but hopefully these people will revive help to get there homes back in order
Everywhere we look we see the world collapsing and disintegrating and abyss is opening to swallow its victims.
So dramatic.
I see a bad moon rising.
Don't worry, God will save us...🤣😆
Year on year this gets worse .... Same old story were doing this and that learning from our mistakes all bull sh,t
Prayers for Brits ❤
This! Just this! Lack of maintenance and building on flood plains. Madness!
Well done Environment Agency Rivers no longer maintained
Recently,on a trip back from hospital,we came upon 2-3ft of water on the road, looking out the window I saw that drains were blocked,the water had nowhere to go but the road, this is Northumberland.
All new houses being built in flood prone area's should be raised.
Better still don't build on flood plains.
Feel desperately sorry for everyone having to evacuate their homes.Could the Environment Agency have been more proactive based on past experience?Hats off to the Fire Brigade having to deal with the situation and everyone’s safety.
The environmental agency needs to put more men on the ground less in the office or planning with nothing getting done get the rivers and ditches cleared like they used to be done many
Geez imagine the office Waller digging ditches probably use their keyboard and stapler, because they wouldn't know where to start anything practical.
When are we going to receive aid from the UN ?
Never. The money's gone on building houses (on flood plains) for illegal immigrants.
Which city is this
Tewkesbury
Atlantis
It might be better, if it ever happens, to run a story, "Tewkesbury has not flooded this year!"
All by design
That should be the drought problem sorted for a couple of years. …. And perhaps lower water charges ? Reservoirs filling up nicely ..
Drought problem sorted? What chance, no chance? Next summer, July time, we'll be under a hosepipe ban! 🙂
There are places in this world where towns or neighborhoods should never have been built in the first place. We mostly know better now, but who wouldn't want to live in a lovely home in the city centre or near a lovely river? The people living there should have known this was a possibility before they bought or rented their homes. Many of them likely knew, but they took the risk. Like living in New Orleans or in Miami with hurricanes. There are risks and rewards for living in areas. Today, they were punished for taking that risk. Will they tear down the old homes and move to higher ground? No, of course not. They will restore their homes and move back in. And, in 30 years, we'll see the same story and pretend it's worse than before or blame the government.
Terrible. Next week will be dryer, but little comfort to those effected.
Haven’t seen any councils dredge rivers since the 90s. Also the storm drains don’t get cleared out as much as they used to. Where do they think all the waters going to go. Some of our local rivers here are half the width they used to be and full of crap
Any other countries doing an appeal for us...NO.....are there any celebrities going to do any appeals shows..NO...are any pop groups going to do any concerts ...NO.....have the tories labour giving out any help for us...NO....wonder if they will put any people into 5 star hotels ....NO....but the can offer army barracks...YES....
Tewkesbury again --- i remember it happening years ago and the only place not flooded was the big church
Big pumps instead of little pumps could save many houses.
Where the hell is Sunak?
So why not to build the houses higher on poles?
Tewkesbury is an old town. Most houses were built before they had flood problems - and a local authority who dredged rivers and drains.
1:26 how pathetic. my mum is 77 and would never sit in that kayak like a poor animal. the water is 5" deep ffs.
I blame the Prime Minister for all this rain
Wise men build houses on a hill not on a river bank !!!!!
Too many houses built on what was essentially land that could absorb and drain water! ? Driveways and front gardens paved over or gravelled, more roads, pavements and concreted side yards for bins!!! Essentially, TOO MANY ARRIVALS IN ENGLAND!!!
Because we always throw rubbish away
The government has not been spending on essential infrastructure like water management and have allowed building on flood plains this was entirely foreseeable, any future essential spending will be lambasted by the tories as wasting money / overspending ( its only seen as wasted if it goes to improving our lives btw)
Already happening in gloucester people are being evacuated to the local leisure centre in some parts just as bad as 2oo7,
This is what happens when rivers are no longer dredged, flood plains built on and everyone making their front lawns into driveways 🤷♂️
And it's getting cold next week. There but for the sake of..... 😔. Hope it stops raining tonight.
Stop building everywhere and start having some river bank management plan that used to happen in good old days.
Poor householders. Can't think if anything worse.
Concreting gardens, artificial grass, warmer climate and yet we wonder why flooding is getting worse?
He was very laid back about it all that resident in the canoe.
Very saddened to hear this. ..if only the government can adapt to a changing climate system and put more effort funding for flood control/protection structures/infractures. U.K would have been better prepared and this situation could have been prevented. I sincerely hope that people who are effected are supported and emergency provisions are enacted in order to safeguard and protect human lives and their dwellings are protected🌻.
Not a very good advert for that flood gate.
Well done Conservative Government with special thanks to Therese Coffey for not doing her job.
God makes the rain, not Rishi.
@@aclark903 And the government does nothing to keep people dry.
There is no god.@@aclark903
All the sewage Thérèse put in the rivers should have prevented this, surely?
😂😂😂
@@hypsyzygy506well they have to empty the bull💩 tank in the house of lords somewhere.
Well, the Brits look quite happy about it.
They have low standards.
Clean out the drains drench out the canals stop building on flood lands
I recently thought the ideal English country town is one that has a pretty church, a market square and must, absolutely must have a graceful old bridge over a charming river. Not any more
If it a problem and your old move?