“Floods are part and parcel of where we live – we expect them. The fact that the breaching wall collapsed, that was a bit unexpected… But tractors driving through the middle of the flood was not really on anybody’s plan.”
So, unlike many claims, not really climate change then.
Also not the World Ecommunist Forum seeding clouds with nanobots.
Amazing what shit gets put out there, I assume to discredit “our” side.
Round here all the usual places are flooded and the winter springs are flowing where expected, the only difference to the last 13 winters we’ve been here is its all a bit earlier than expected. I’d normally see these levels in January or February and there’s a lot more mud on the road.
That mud is in part due to the earlier floods and coming off farm vehicles but is also been washed off the fields in a lot of places.
Of course once in 14 years doesn’t not mean global warming or anything else other than a bit of weather variation within the noise.
Dredging* would be a simple means of reducing the amount of water flowing into peoples homes**.
Of course, it would be ‘simple’, except for guff like this: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a805a14ed915d74e33f9ee9/LIT_10431.pdf
And the fact the dredged silt is “controlled waste” which can be expensive to dispose of.
*The Environment Agency tell us dredging is not that effective and may be very short term – a matter of weeks even.
**Perhaps as stated before, they should’ve thought about flooding when building / buying property on a flood plain….
So many people are making so much money and becoming so incredibly powerful in the biggest scam ever pulled in human history, I can see no end to it. What drives me crazy is it’s so idiotic and the “cure” is so suicidal that it makes me despair. The only ray of hope I have is that the politicians who started it were so stupid, they didn’t realise the gas they made the culprit was essential to human life so I suppose it’s the medical equivalent to using a tourniquet on your neck to stop that shaving cut…
@Addolff
The other problem with dredging is that it transfers the problem quickly down the river to the next place which is more likely to be a big town or city with houses built on what used to be a flood plain.
Kyre Brook doesn’t look like it’s amenable to dredging. The water could be held back with a reservoir or abandoned farm or two further up the valley, but it’s that retaining wall failure what was the key problem. And that tracta.
People choose to live by river, get flooded, complain about results of their life choices.
All the people saying “wah wah! this is the sixth time this has happened!” Yes, and…. Can’t you take a hint?
“But tractors driving through the middle of the flood was not really on anybody’s plan”
Don’t worry. The government has a long-term plan to sort this. It might take a few years, but there won’t be as many tractors around.
At a time when public sympathy is largely on the side of the farming community this is a major own goal.
My guess is some idiot kid doing a ramped up version of soaking pedestrians by deliberately driving through puddles, which went badly wrong.
@John
Hanlon’s Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I saw it more as a person getting from A to B in a vehicle a bit better at getting down a flooded road than a family car. In which case the bow wave was probably an unintentional consequence.
@Andyf Dunno the current price on a tractor, but that’s a damn stupid way to get from A to B.
Can’t see what’s under the water…
And as the end of that clip shows, the tractor did hit something rather fierce…
Reading a report of it, I noticed the shop owner they’d interviewed about her cracked window, it was a gift shop. And couldn’t help wondering if it was of those village high streets which has filled up antique shops & trivia shops & estate agents & beauty parlours etc etc but there’s no actual shops actually sell anything the locals need. So maybe the guy on the tractor was extracting revenge.
In theory that tractor driver could be a 16 year old on a provisional license* and it most definitely could be a 17 year old on a provisional license. From HM Gove website:
“ Practising driving a tractor or specialist vehicle
You can get a provisional licence for a tractor or specialist vehicle at 16, but you cannot practise driving them on the road until you’re 17.
The only exception is when you’re driving to or from your practical driving test.”
*In needs to be less than 2.45m wide
https://www.gov.uk/learning-to-drive-a-tractor-or-specialist-vehicle/age-limits
Judging by the way kids drive those big tractors round here my guess is he/she just didn’t give the consequences any though due to lack of experience.
I should have done a bit more reading, apparently they’ve arrested a 57 year old.
BiND,
The thing I ask myself is what changes should we see amongst greed pig, free market capitalists of climate change. So, not things that change because of new regulations or taxes or subsidies.
Like sea level rises should affect beach front house prices, a hotter world should see people quit wine making at the edge of where it’s marginal, like Israel or Brazil. None of this is happening at even a marginal level in the past 25 years, which is 1/4 of the way to the 2 degrees we’re supposed to see a rise to by 2100.