July floods: 1 Year on

[JimoVTR]

Last year (today), you all may remember the floods of Gloucestershire.

People were flooded out, and some are still living in caravans.

There was a celebration and also a memorial thing of the three Tewkesbury people that died.

Floods

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2007/20070724_ukflood.jpg

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2007/07/23/tewkesbury460.jpg


Victims

3 people died. A father and son, trying to save beer from a cellar.

Also a friend of mine.... drowned after a night out.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44031000/jpg/_44031360_mitch203b.jpg


Tonights Celebration

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[MrHouston]

RIP to your friend

And I couldn't imagine it, i'd be devostated if our area was flooded

[Viper]

have they done anything to improve flood defences?

i see they tried to burn down a church though..

punish god. good idea...

[Amiee]

Tis a nice thing to do!!!

[JimoVTR]

have they done anything to improve flood defences?

i see they tried to burn down a church though..

punish god. good idea...

Said the exact same thing tonight

[djrem]

have they done anything to improve flood defences?

i see they tried to burn down a church though..

punish god. good idea...

its the wicker man 2

[Ashleyp]

have they done anything to improve flood defences?

i see they tried to burn down a church though..

punish god. good idea...

i lold

tis bad though :( glad my area hasnt flooded

[smiith]

im happy whitby is sat on a cliff...

but filey just about 30 miles away got hit bad..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/images/2007/10/03/aerial_muston_road_filey_400x300.jpg

poor people living like that

[Anders0n]

have they done anything to improve flood defences

Definitely not a lot. Barrier round the power station and that's about it.

[smiith]

Definitely not a lot. Barrier round the power station and that's about it.

typical, down with brown, send him down the U-Bend tbh.

[djrem]

Definitely not a lot. Barrier round the power station and that's about it.

because when you're tvs floating away, at least you can feel safe you could have plugged it in and actually electrocuted yourselves out of misery

[smiith]

because when you're tvs floating away, at least you can feel safe you could have plugged it in and actually electrocuted yourselves out of misery

well having your computer plugged in, is more important than life for viper and sayer =]

[djrem]

well having your computer plugged in, is more important than life for viper and sayer =]

its is life.

And on the internet, you never age.

Im still 15/f/california on Adultfriendfinder....

[shooorn94]

In 1998 my town was flooded, at the time new homes were built just on the outskirts of Northampton. My best mate in the worst hit area was shipped over to one of the new homes with their family, loved that house why'd he move back into his old place I'll never know. Gloucester was hit on a much bigger area though I would believe so Brown couldn't do such a nice kind gesture for the people of gloucester... then again I doubt he would anyway.

2 People died where I lived.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northamptonshire/content/images/2008/03/18/floods2_470x152_470x352.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northamptonshire/content/images/2008/03/18/floods7_470x352.jpg

I drive over that bridge every day it had water going around the sides and underneath at that time...

Love the church on fire :clapping:... smooth move.

[Mitchell]

couldnt imagin living in a caravan for more than a year F*CK THAT!!!!!!!!!

very sad indeed.

[craig180]

Harsh on the people of Glos - bro and sis in law had to collect bottled water from their street as the tap water was contaminated because of the flood

But what about the rest of the country that suffered far worse? South Yorks for example.

[Elliott]

RIP to your friend jimo.

[-Jason-]

Hope all the people get the last bits sorted and more is dont to improve defences.

Rock on living on a hill lol

[TU-Tuning]

Was a horrible thing to happen. Feel so sorry for the families who got flooded out. Cant really blame the environment agency though, they are living on a flood plain and they are aware of this.


Saw a report on the news, some guys house had been ruined. He was complaining that after the last flood that happened before that one, his garden had been destroyed. So he spent 25k landscaping it, and he was pissed off it got ruined again. You live on a flood plain, are you retarded?

[JimoVTR]

Harsh on the people of Glos - bro and sis in law had to collect bottled water from their street as the tap water was contaminated because of the flood

But what about the rest of the country that suffered far worse? South Yorks for example.

So did the rest of gloucestershire.

Fortunatly I went to magaluf the day it was switched off.... and came back the day it was switched on