On Jul 23, 10:46 pm, "flybywire" wrote:
makes you wonder how the power companies can get away with not protecting
their important substations with flood walls same goes for the water
authorities and their pumping stations

Also why on earth don't we have some decent culverts like you see in Spain

Bring back the Victorian engineers they would know what to do

Wasn't it the Victorians that put the pumping houses in?

Britain had hedges and ditches with some magnificent trees around
small fields in those days. Any large scale agricultural water
modification was to keep the stuff in as water meadows and in the
winter, ice rinks.

Now we have large fields with barbed wire and scabby bushes here and
there, with no marshland but huge land drainage schemes instead.