And forecasters warned that more rain is on the way. Our country can not afford for the government to not invest when the sun is shining; which is what we have seen with the current stop start approach to investment in this field in recent years.
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Families and businesses across Yorkshire are counting the cost of the weekend’s devastation which was described as the worst flooding for 70 years by West Yorkshire Police as it declared a “major incident” and troops were mobilised to help.
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Mr. Cameron said after an emergency Cobra ministerial meeting that the government would “do whatever is needed” to deal with the crisis.
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“Also my sympathy for those affected at this time of year”. “We’re still in a situation with major flood warnings”.
Ms Truss described the weekend rainfall and connected flooding as “something more than we have ever seen before”.
The River Calder burst its banks in the town of Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, and an elderly man had to rescued from his submerged Land Rover.
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: “We have committed nearly £300m over the life of this government including European funding to managing flood risk and we are committing an additional £150m to coastal risk from 2018”.
“It’s just horrific, really bad”, she said.
More reasons to only consider properties well out of range of a flood plain / river basins is that even if a property has never flooded, just by being near a flood risk area is enough to increase insurance premiums or worse make properties uninsurable that would put off many prospective home buyers and thus result in deep under valuation at time of selling of anywhere between 15% to 40% as compared to similar properties situated on as little as 10 metres higher ground. “People are panicking. That’s my business and my home, it’s a double whammy”.
Members of the army and rescue teams help evacuate people from flooded properties after they became trapped by rising floodwater when the River Ouse bursts its banks in York city center Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. The Pallister family was advised to leave their home while their children still wearing their pyjamas.
The Archbishop of York John Sentamu said flood waters were coming into his residence, Bishopthorpe Palace. “So we had a boat ride out”, she said. A bit exhausted, a bit shocked.
There are fears that rapidly rising rivers will break the banks and flood those living nearby.
Hundreds of flood alerts and warnings are in place for England, Wales and Scotland, including more than 20 severe warnings – indicating danger to life.
“In Lancashire each one single river was at a record-high”, she stated. “And clearly in the light of that we will be reviewing our flood defences”.
Several hundred had been evacuated the day before in the West Yorkshire and Lancashire regions and officials said thousands had lost power.
A picturesque 200-year-old pub, The Waterside, in the greater Manchester area, collapsed and part of the structure was swept away by the River Irwell.
The flooding in northern England has thrown the holiday travel plans of many motorists and rail passengers into disarray.
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A flood alert from the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) remains in effect for Tayside and a more severe flood warning for the River Earn from Innerpeffray to Bridge of Earn.
