On 28/12/2015 11:55, Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Sunday, 27 December 2015 23:43:45 UTC, jbm wrote:
On 27/12/2015 22:52, Joe Egginton wrote:
Does **** and other stuff come up from the sewers, when streets are
flooded?
Is the pressure high enough in the sewers to push water up through the
road drains openings and push off the drain cover?
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Yes.
Yes.
And yes.
If you took the trouble to read the newspaper reports or listen to the
TV and radio bulletins, you would have known that.
Why do you think flooded properties become uninhabitable for so long?
And why do you think the whole area stinks like a sewage works when the
water goes down?
jim
It backs up over the pan when the water inside the house reaches knee height but I never read that in the Guardian.
Power stations must be switched off when the water reaches the skirting boards so the ability of local stations to pump sewage stops.
Nobody in those houses can get anything but water and that looks like it is running through the cess although it should be shielded. So nor electric and for most no heating, also no blankets or clean clothes nor cleaning anywhere within a bus ride.
The place smells estuarine once the water drains away which means that anything more capable than plastic, of decomposing, degenerates to a feverish, sodden ruin. Cars can not be dried out without complete overhaul and any animals abandoned will die. So there is going to be a serious smell for weeks.
All the houses will require hosing out before the insurance can be decided on and most people even some insurance offices will lose records. I don't know how modern records will fare in the computer age. They should be safe but when a company like TalkTalk can be wrecked by a 15 year old out for kicks...
All wiring below floorboards will have to come out all floor boards made of chipboard will have to be removed unless it is the green one. All electrical devices on floors swill be ruined and all beds downstairs too. Nobody will be getting a bath or a cup of tea for a few days.
And even the clothing upstairs will start suffering from mildew unless someone opens the doors and windows and switches on the heat.... ahhh...
About three days after the mess clears/water goes down, the problem will be children playing and homeless people looking for anything. Thieves and junkies will be there already and so will cowboy repair men.
If any foundations have moved the biggest criminals will be insurance reps. Be careful what you sign. Most roads will be OK especially as they won't be getting much use for a few weeks. But the emergency services will be occupied sorting out what infrastructure needs repairing first besides looking after displaced people.
Now would be a good time to reflect on the pressure refugee centres are under all the time and just what it means for a man to take his wife and children and flee a political hell.
No matter how wet your walls get; at the end of the spell you are still free and comparatively rich.
Thanks for that informative message. However, don’t try to make a
political message about nogs from less civilised part of the world
invading Europe, when they can easily go to the country next door.
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