Snippets about the floods

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There's always someone who will buy houses in at risk areas, either out of desperation, ignorance, or stupidity.

And when it all goes predictably wrong, they look for everyone else to bail them out ( ha ha unintended pun!). I think that anyone buying a house at risk of flooding would have quickly identified the risk after their house insurer refused to cover that risk.....assuming they felt the need for insurance that is?

Re Devonian's comments about pollutants getting into houses. I've heard that in certain flood prone countries, householders who know that flooding will take place imminently, pre-empt it by purposely flooding their lower floors with clean mains water. This is to create positive pressure and prevent effluent and pollutants flooding in. Apparently this is very effective and speeds up the clean up process.

But I would not want to live in a flood zone, and have always used local knowledge or more recently Environment Agency mapping to make sure that my plot was a dry one.