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Flood warnings today. The red warnings mean ‘act now’
Britain is becoming wet & wild as predicted by climate experts. And the gov tell us there isn’t enough money to build or maintain flood defences, to restore eco systems, to dredge ditches and unblock drains.
It’s fuck you, fend for yourself.
I went for a walk in South Dalton and someone had scooped out big chunks of the grass verge to allow the water to drain off the road. It’s a quick, old fashioned method. It went from flooded to not flooded in minutes.
Simple, piss cheap, just need a couple of lads with a digger and they made the road safe.
But with these shitbloke neolib shitheads in charge, there’s no money for it apparently. They’re too busy telling us trans people are evil and shouldn’t be allowed to play tennis culture war dogshit
Guardian research has found that more than 4,000 of England’s vital flood defences are so damaged they are almost useless. The number of damaged flood defences has increased across all regions in the past five years.
For people who haven’t been in floods before, some very very quick and basic tips:
Never go upstairs, into your attic, or on your roof if your house is flooding because you WILL end up trapped and possibly stuck right on top of a collapsing building.
Stay out of flood water unless it is a choice between entering the water and sure death. Flood water can contain dangerous pathogens, corpses of both animals and people, live and agressive animals, heavy objects like tree branches and furniture, dangerous debris like broken glass and sharp metal, and live wires.
Flood water is a lot deeper, faster, and stronger than you think it is. It’s not just ppwerful enough to knock you off your feet, it can also carry things like cars. You will not win against the flood water. It also rises much faster than you think it will and water that seemed manageable to walk through can very quickly become overwhelming.
If you are in a possible flood zone, now is the time to prepare a go-bag, preferably a waterproof one. Include emergency supplies like flashlights, batteries, bottled water, shelf stable food, blankets, spare clothes, a battery powered radio, and cash (pet supplies like spare bowls, bagged food, and leashes/harnesses too if you have pets). Strongly consider getting your paperwork and identification papers especially together in a waterproof container and put them with your emergency supplies.
anytime someone from the UK orders a print from me I’m delighted because the addresses tend to be charming and sound completely made-up, I just suspend my disbelief and accept that I’m sending a package someplace with a name like Bristleberry House at Ditchmallow in Brambleford-on-Cotton—incredible lmaooo I bet this gets delivered to you by a badger in a little coat
I am once again posting my ever-growing collection of towns that sound like PG Wodehouse characters:
All of these areas are places you would certainly get killed in on Midsomer Murders.
I mean these are cute but I also need you to know I grew up near a place called Nasty
this post is absolutely bafling as a british person because like 85% of these names just feel so incredibly normal to me it’s so jarring to see how non-british people react to them
you can’t convince me there isn’t some dude - sorry, some bloke named Kirby Underdale who lives near that last sign. he drives a little too fast, it makes everyone nervous, and his neighbors decide to have a sign made and installed instead of talking to him about it.
if you’re wondering how things are going over on the bird website, Green Day was on New Years Rockin Eve last night and performed American Idiot with the slight line change of saying “not a part of the MAGA agenda” instead of “redneck agenda” and conservatives are FUCKING PISSED talking about “how dare they make it political” because none of them have a single ounce of media literacy
