Somerset hit by flash floods and mudslides as major incident declared
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- A major incident has been declared in Somerset after heavy thunderstorms caused severe flash floods and mudslides across the county.
Entire villages have been cut off with people ordered to leave their homes on Tuesday as water levels reached 4ft-high in the worst affected areas.
Parents of children at two primary schools in the county were told they should not go to the school because of flooded roads, it was reported on social media
#somerset #flooding #response
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Hope they received an emergency warning on their mobile phones.
Thank goodness they all got a Government Alarm on their mobile devices telling them floods were expected. Otherwise it could have been bad for these residents.
Did the govt use their Alert on peoples phones…
THERE IS ZERO LEGITIMACY FOR THOSE ALERTS THUMBS DOWN
No
Dud they use the new emergency warning phone system?
I hope these people have the good sense not to rebuild in flood risk areas.
😂😂😂 I say this every year. People lack common sense
This is the norm now. The climate is all over the place. All or nothing weather, insufficient action on creating appropriate infrastructure. Think of the benefit if there were systems for gathering and storing this sort of excess for future droughts.
Last year the south of England was on fire. This year plenty of rain - but up in Scotland they have water table problems because of a lack of rain.
There must be a solution that benefits all. This government is not interested in practical solutions, just ideology.
Climate will always change with or without man.
@@spinynorman8217 most pointless comment ever. the rate of change and the ability of living things to adapt is the crux of the matter. We are supercharging the change. Not. good. capiche?
@@mertonsardeen2242 "One of the greatest fictions of all is to deny the complexity of the world, and think in absolute terms..." Yuval Noah Harari ...
@@Souscheff got any, like, er, evidence for that bro?
Part of a natural cycle, the worst is yet to come.
Least your garden got watered
...and the carpet.
So much for the alert lmao
FK THE ALERT SYSTEM
First clip- Im sorry but the landowner of the field is wholely responsible for that, this is what happens when contract farming takes over, no ditches, no maintainence.
Nam myoho rengekyo 🙏 pray 🌍 for peace be safe
No proper drainage in the fields or roads so where has those taxes been spent?
Somerset AGAIN!!!! Councillors need to be paraded with “We are so dumb” placards around their necks
I'd rather pillory them.
These video clips are actually Devon though Somerset also had a big flood. The flooding shown was a result of approximately 70mm to 100mm . The intensity was the biggest issue. Land management was part of the issue. This was the biggest flood to hit the area in 50 years. The devastation in both these villages is horrendous.
Just had a drought warning letter come through the door for south west😂
hilarious.
I suppose the anti monarchists will blame it on Charles and Camilla….😂
🤣🤣 A royal family slave spotted
Nah most of us will just destroy it as being fake media , clearly an excuse to pratal on about the needless and pointless alerts system that we all blocked on our phones , now fk oooooof
They wouldn’t be far from wrong either.
I am in glastonbury it's like that here
Farmers need assistance (financial and technological) to create a water management system .. this has been going on for decades. The eco-agenda i suspect has been discouraging preventative action
i think the eco agenda would be very much in favour of water management systems as long as they are natural. Farmers need to give up (or be paid for) more of their land to introduce more regular tree lines/hedgerows to disrupt flow, as well as land for seasonal ponds/flooding.
@@DuanRussel maybe if they werent tinkering with the weather through use of heavy metals in jetfuel the heavy rainfall wouldnt be happening. We all know whats going on... create the problem (dirty jetfuel), say its because of cars, industry, gas or whatever suits then offer the solution.
@@zark0g oh right haha, i see.
@@zark0g i think thats a bit far out there my friend.
@@DuanRussel the facts are out there
Good luck getting building and content insurance.
And the new alarm system went into action... when?
Horrendous.
This is Devon not Somerset!
These last 2 years have seen extremely weird weather. I suppose we will have to accept climate change or maybe it's a cyclical occurrence!!! Sympathies to all those who are affected.
cLiMaTe ChAnGe DoEsN'T ExIsT
fml
even the skeptics say it exists but just debate the degree of man-made acceleration...
@@StrangeAttractorno we don’t
Awful for all concerned
Especially the totally useless councillors
Every nice day they spray the sky like we are rodents then it always rains hard geo engineering
Why did my phone alert not go off? I thought that was what it was for
Flood barriers should be erected all along risky areas, in this day and age that really wouldnt be difficult or too expensive, it may hurt the local aesthetic but surely for the people living in these type of areas it would be better than a flooded home
or the water ways dredged like they used to would be a better solution
The whole of the UK looks like that. It's not the drainage that's the problem. It's more water vapour in the atmosphere creating heavier rain storms.
Is this normal weather for there?
Not in may
Nope. The west and southwest regions of the islands usually take the majority of energy from Atlantic weather fronts. So they are suited for this type of weather. It has worked so well that the southeast of England is actually considered semi-arid.
But these events are becoming all too regular and far heavier for every locale on the islands. So when the West does get it more often than not it's now going to cause at the least severe disruption.
@Ominous Heat but it's not usually like this in May. I am in glastonbury and the fields are flooded around here. Its like this in winter
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! climate change!!!!! REEEEEEEEEE eat the bugz!!!!! live in the pod!!! REEEEEEEEEEEE stop driving cars!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE stop oil !!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
🏴 How's Frome doing with these floods ?