Snippets about the floods

[NorthernRaider]

I remember seeing a news snippet on regional TV not so long back where this estate had been recently built that was on the lower end of a flood plain. The home owners and builders had cooperated in fitting flap valves in the waste water systems and smaller flap valves on each house where the waste water joins the system. they also built 3 ft high walls round each house out of brick with slots in the gate pillars for flood barriers to be installed in if the floods came. Indoors the distribution board was set about 7 ft from the floor and all the sockets were at least a meter off the ground.

People who choose to buy riverside or flood risk property and take no precautions to mitigate against floods baffle me, they KNOW at some point they WILL get flooded but when it happens they blame everyone except themselves and their own lack of preps. Its like these eeejits you hear about who never ever check the oil and water etc in the vehicles then whinge when it blows up a long way from home.