Porthleven,Cornwall
- 6 February 2014 10:28260100After seeing all the photos of the weather and the sea there now just glad it was not like that last Oct/when we was there just where that church is in the Sun and the News last night is where we parked the car and walked along the pier,its a very nice place to stay with good eating outlets all around the sea front we hope to go back later in the year but the weather will have to be alot better then it is now.Feel so sorry for anyone and the land owners down there at this very time.
- 6 February 2014 10:51260105My late husband was born there.
- 6 February 2014 11:59260111
- 6 February 2014 12:04260112There is a pub right on end on the other side great food with seats outside,I hope it will still be there when we go there.I will phone up later on to the place we were staying at and aske how they are,but they are at the top of a lane so should be Ok.
- 8 February 2014 13:58260331no let up in the west country as this report and photos show.
questions are being asked of the environment agency who are not coming out of this well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26095937 - 8 February 2014 14:07260332To be honest this is sustained spell of freak weather, storm after storm, perhaps they should direct their anger to God?Audere est facere.
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
8 February 2014 15:52260333The Department for Environment has not come out well on this for the simple reason they did not listen to the locals who knew what needed doing after the last major flooding, while Lord Smith in the TV interviews I have seen appears uncaring and arrogant.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
8 February 2014 15:53260334which god would that be martin.
- 8 February 2014 16:41260335Jan Higgins wrote:The Department for Environment has not come out well on this for the simple reason they did not listen to the locals who knew what needed doing after the last major flooding, while Lord Smith in the TV interviews I have seen appears uncaring and arrogant.
Jan, the new Catchment Partnership Schemes run by the Environment Agency (the River Dour Steering Group is one of the community organisations involved in the local one) have been set up to get over exactly this problem. There were 25 pilot schemes set up in 2011 and the last batch (including ours and the relevant area of Somerset) were set up only in September last year, and have not had long enough to have an impact yet. The RDSG membership includes all local organisations with an interest in the Dour and the local catchment as well as volunteers, and the Catchment Partnership membership includes all similar organisations over East Kent, including by invitation the NFU.
I'm not defending any obvious mismanagement in that area or lack of funding from high up in the EA or government, just pointing out that arrangements are being put in place for an input into river management planning for any individual or organisation with an interest to have a direct input, unfortunately too late.
And Martin is right, this has been such an extreme situation that maybe the only realistic way to have stopped it would have been to find a way to stop the rain
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
8 February 2014 17:46260340Thanks Ray for that explanation of the new set up I hope it is a success.
We were only saying today that we could not remember such a long period of heavy rain together with the strong winds.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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