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Author:  TECKNO VIKING [ Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:19 am ]
Post subject:  UK floods.
First off,I hope none of the guys here are in any affected areas or threatened areas.

If there is anything any of us can do to help just shout.

We were flooded twice in 2000 (June & Nov). The June one I managed to build a solid defence thank`s to the Fire Brigades advance street warnings (knocking on doors & shouting).

Alas the Nov flood truely caught us. We had a few feet of water in the house.
I got my wife & then 1st baby out as soon as the flood started to family nearby.
I stayed with our home to save our stuff & then protect the house & wait for the Insurance.

Once that was done,our Insurance sorted our a rented house,where we lived for 9 months till our home dried out & the work was done on it too.

So I have a fairly good idea on what those today are going through.

So anyway if we have fellow grunts/fans here affected,lets see what we can do to help them out.

Jason
Author:  Airborne Mike [ Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:00 pm ]
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Got your sandbags ready?
Seriously, do you folks have sump pumps built in the basement. I bet everyone is saying, "WTF are sump pumps, Mike?".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sump_pump Well, most Albertan homes built since 1990 have the weeping tile set to funnel the water to one location in the basement. A pump with a float switch pumps the water out of the house. This works fine until you loose AC power. I was so paranoid about water in my basement, I had a DC powered backup pump installed. Worked great. Since then, I have moved into a 1981 home. I have built up the grade on the side of this home and ensured the drainpipes from the evestroughs direct the water 10 feet away from the home.
I wish you folks luck on these floods.

Mike
Author:  Glenn [ Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:41 pm ]
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I'm glad i live on the side of a hill there have been times in the past we have had heavy rain, i have watched the rain pour down my street, for me to be flooded, the water leavel would have to rise by 60 feet.... :wink:
Author:  Eagle [ Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:53 pm ]
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We were 2 inches away from disaster last Friday. The stream at the back of our house rose nearly four feet in the space of a day. Fortunately (for us) a river burst its banks a mile down and we were spared the misery.

Panic sand-bagging R Us! :D
Author:  necronom [ Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:03 pm ]
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Airborne Mike wrote:
do you folks have sump pumps built in the basement. I bet everyone is saying, "WTF are sump pumps, Mike?".


Actually, it's more like "WTF is a basement?" We don't usually have basements here. I've never seen one or heard of anyone having a basement in England, though the place I work at has one, but that's a company building (it might have been a house at one time though).

No flooding where I live, but I wish the rain would STOP!
Author:  SgtTony [ Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:48 pm ]
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My grandmother is marooned in Tewkesbury, but dry.
My folks lost water but the army is keeping them well supplied and stores are keeping a limit on things so everyone can get a chance.
They still have power though thank goodness, otherwise Gloucester, Tewkesbury and Cheltenham would have to have been evacuated *phew*

They are amazingly upbeat though.
Author:  TECKNO VIKING [ Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:27 am ]
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I think it`s rather old houses (large one`s at that) that tend to have basements in the UK (18th,19th Century).

So basements are not the norm.

Eagle,fingers crossed it doesn`t get any higher for you mate.

Tony, Good to hear your Grandmother`s safe & well in Tewkesbury.
As for your folks,I hope they are fine too & tomorrow`s weather doesn`t look too good at all,which means they`ll probably get caught out Fri-Sat with more floods :(

As for the upbeat nature,I found that too back when we suffered it. Helping some of the older folks move their stuff higher up & how upbeat they were considering.
It truely brought out a positive spirit in the community going through it (shame it takes something like that to do it mind).

Now we watch as the flooding seems to be heading east. At least folk are getting plenty of warning to prepare defences.

Jason
Author:  Glenn [ Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:00 pm ]
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Axeman wrote:


As for the upbeat nature,I found that too back when we suffered it. Helping some of the older folks move their stuff higher up & how upbeat they were considering.
It truely brought out a positive spirit in the community going through it (shame it takes something like that to do it mind).

Jason


its the old blitz spirt coming through....on the news the younger people were crying and stuff because they had been flooded, the older folks , where saying ' i was bombed during the war'

just goes to show that the old folks of this country are a lot tougher than the young ones.... :P
Author:  Fal Bowden [ Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:53 pm ]
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model shop guy wrote:
its the old blitz spirt coming through....on the news the younger people were crying and stuff because they had been flooded, the older folks , where saying ' i was bombed during the war'

just goes to show that the old folks of this country are a lot tougher than the young ones.... :P


That or their stuff cost a lot less. :roll:
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