Somerset floods now "major incident"

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 03 Feb 2014, 22:44

Looks like Owen Patterson is searching for a chicken headed climate denier

http://appointments.thesundaytimes.co.u ... ent-agency

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 03 Feb 2014, 22:48

kenneal - lagger wrote:
I've had to dig a ditch alongside my drive to stop water from pushing up through the base and vehicles falling through the tarmac.

Ken's front drive:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... night.html

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 04 Feb 2014, 07:48

Looking at the BBC news last night, the amazing thing about that sinkhole is the family still appear to be living in the house, even though the whole front wall seems tomhave been undermined!

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 04 Feb 2014, 14:28

My "sink hole" only took a car tyre, or part of one, fortunately.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 05 Feb 2014, 20:14

It seems Mr Plod had a helicopter today, from which he shouted to the wellie-footed folk trapped in the Moors to evacuate. Unfortunately the only road was both flooded and blocked by lorries from TV companies. Complaints about the noise frightening the ponies have been made.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 05 Feb 2014, 20:18

I think this wins my best pic of the day prize:

from http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gall ... /uk-storms

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 05 Feb 2014, 21:02

Cornish News latest: England cut off

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 05 Feb 2014, 21:03

Oh yes and who gave Mr Paterson that detached retina??

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 06 Feb 2014, 02:00

Who's been sticking pins in dolls?

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 06 Feb 2014, 10:55

biffvernon wrote:I think this wins my best pic of the day prize:

from http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gall ... /uk-storms

It's God's way of proving he still doesn't exist.

Post by **mikepepler** » 06 Feb 2014, 13:47

RenewableCandy wrote:Oh yes and who gave Mr Paterson that detached retina??

Will the operation cure his short-sighted planning?

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 06 Feb 2014, 14:28

Gosh these jokes get cornea (that's one from across the iris sea...)

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 06 Feb 2014, 16:02

kenneal - lagger wrote:Who's been sticking pins in dolls?

Naah, that's Gove not Paterson

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 06 Feb 2014, 18:46

Still looks surprisingly happy given his predicament!

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 07 Feb 2014, 14:41

A very sensible piece from Monbiot:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... on-farmers

For a moment, that rarest of beasts – common sense – poked a nose out of its burrow and sniffed the air. Assailed by angry farmers demanding dredging in the Somerset Levels, the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, broke with time-honoured protocol and said something sensible: "Dredging is often not the best long-term or economic solution and increased dredging of rivers on the Somerset Levels would not have prevented the recent widespread flooding."

He went on to suggest something I never thought I would hear from his lips: "Also, we need to do more to hold water back, way back in the hills."

Coming from the man who insisted in November that he would do what he could to help farmers keep the hills bare, this was an astonishing and welcome turnaround. It reflects what his advisers in the Environment Agency have been trying to say for years, before being sat on by ministers wanting instant answers to complex problems and then – as the government still plans – being sacked in droves.