mike wilson wrote: > > Hey! I live in a floodplain! > > > > This is brought home to me quite regularly when I walk > along the side > > of the river when there's a very high tide lapping over the berm - > > which is at the height of the 1st floor windows of the > nearest houses... > > > > I hope this thing works: > > http://wwp.greenwichengland.co.uk/tourism/barrier.htm > > > > Bob > > It's been used a total of 30-odd times, of which 14 are in > the last five years. Does that tell you anything?
A vast stretch of Waltham Abbey has been built on, which was former floodland (and much is now Sainsbury's vast southern area depot on the edge of the M25) and over the last few years, parts of the town which hadn't seen floods before or for about a century got flooded - no connection there, eh? I'd swap your car for a boat Bob! Some of the folk up the road who sail on the Essex coast, found their boats on the drive sailable during those last events...:-( Malcolm
