{"id":14956,"date":"2014-02-12T16:43:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14956"},"modified":"2014-02-12T16:43:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:43:52","slug":"uk-floods-now-the-thames-is-involved-its-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14956","title":{"rendered":"UK Floods: Now The Thames Is Involved, It’s Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Somerset Levels got flooded, government response was low-key and sluggish. Now that the \u201cbeloved\u201d Thames is brimming over \u2013 though not to anything like the extent of rivers down in Somerset – that jackass Cameron is walking around trumpeting that \u201cmoney is no object\u201d. Funny how it was<\/strong> an object two weeks ago, when Lord Smith said there wasn\u2019t a bottomless purse. But hey, as I said: it\u2019s the Thames, now. So it\u2019s personal.<\/p>\n

The media is even publishing photos showing a few centimetres of water in the gardens of multi-million pound properties along the Thames (this one is in Wraysbury).\"Wraysbury<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Somerset, many properties are literally waist deep in water (as shown in this picture). Guess where this suggests the money ought to be spent.\"Somerset<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, the Environment Agency has had to withdraw staff from Wraysbury because the local morons with the collective IQ of a tadpole decided to direct abuse and intimidation at EA workers.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear what form this abuse took, but it appears to have been of a physical nature.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get a few things straight, here. I absolutely detest this government, but there is nothing it \u2013 or any of its agencies \u2013 could have done to avoid these floods.<\/p>\n

No amount of dredging would have prevented the Somerset flooding. And the flooding on the Thames has bugger all to do with anything. It\u2019s just shit that happens, as the saying goes. Let\u2019s face it: if you\u2019re going to spend the money you made being a plumber buying a semi-mansion next to a big river to park your white van outside of, you\u2019re partly responsible if it gets flooded out. Floods happen. Especially near rivers.<\/p>\n

Apart from the fact that a lot of water has fallen, by far the biggest problem is idiot councils building on flood plains and creating extra run-off. But quite how significant even this is isn\u2019t known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the Somerset Levels got flooded, government response was low-key and sluggish. Now that the \u201cbeloved\u201d Thames is brimming over \u2013 though not to anything like the extent of rivers down in Somerset – that jackass Cameron is walking around trumpeting that \u201cmoney is no object\u201d. Funny how it was an object two weeks ago, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,89,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related","category-nature","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}