Devon & Cornwall

[Bourne Mouthy]

I see areas of Devon and Cornwall are currently experiencing some very high-intensity slow moving storms, with rainfall greater than 32mm per hour in places. That will all be coming downhill fast in the next few hours. God forbid a repeat of Boscastle.

 

[zigger zaggar]

This weather had to break at some point.

 

[johnbob]

It’s happens, move on it gets hot and then it rains.

 

[blandford_cherry]

It’s happens, move on it gets hot and then it rains.

Well that was well worth commenting on this thread

 

[stanthevan]

The problem is that rainwater doesn't soak into parched ground, it runs off it. We should be extremely worried about what could happen in the coming days.

 

[SlowDownDerek]

Well that was well worth commenting on this thread

He should get a boat and a loudspeaker and float past all the people stood on their roofs in Boscastle after all their possessions have been washed into the sea and tell them it happens and that they should move on. Could call into a children's Cancer ward on his way home and tell them to suck it up.

 

[Jim_AFCB]

Boscastle was in 2004. The difference this time is, as pointed out above, the ground is rock hard and water will just run off instead of soaking in. A Boscastle-type incident this week somewhere would not be any surprise at all.
A couple of spots, one just west of Bideford and another near Okehampton may have had as much as six inches of rain today according to rain radar accumulation charts.

 

[GARYafCb]

It’s happens, move on it gets hot and then it rains.

Well that’s the climate change theory utterly dismantled then

 

[stanthevan]

It’s because of climate change deniers that we’re in this mess. If governments had listened to scientists instead of oil companies the world would be a much safer place.

 

[SlowDownDerek]

It’s because of climate change deniers that we’re in this mess. If governments had listened to scientists instead of oil companies the world would be a much safer place.

Would it have made much difference? I've no idea but I doubt it personally.

 

[stanthevan]

Would it have made much difference? I've no idea but I doubt it personally.

I think it would have made an enormous difference if they really took it on board but that was never going to happen. They’re still not listening with most governments paying it little more than lip service.

 

[SlowDownDerek]

I think it would have made an enormous difference if they really took it on board but that was never going to happen. They’re still not listening with most governments paying it little more than lip service.

Humans as a species were never going to sort it out. Personally it doesn't bother me. What will be will be.

 

[stanthevan]

Humans as a species were never going to sort it out. Personally it doesn't bother me. What will be will be.

That’s bordering on nihilism.

 

[SlowDownDerek]

That’s bordering on nihilism.

Bordering on realism more like.

 

[RobTrent]

Humans as a species were never going to sort it out. Personally it doesn't bother me. What will be will be.

Whats the difference between your comment and johnbobs?

 

[SlowDownDerek]

Whats the difference between your comment and johnbobs?

I can have empathy with individuals whilst not losing any sleep for what I see as the inevitable fate of our species in general.

I didn't used to lie awake at night worrying about the inevitability of my parents dying but when it happened I was very sad.

 

[New Old Cherry]

What will be will be.
...but sometimes it a bit of forethought can prevent disasters...

..I could write a novel on this subject... it would have some Politicians as characters...there would be no action or critical highpoints...it would just be about Rain....and 'Recess' !

 

[Ken Baileys Ghost]

It’s because of climate change deniers that we’re in this mess. If governments had listened to scientists instead of oil companies the world would be a much safer place.

Errr ,..........

The government listened to scientists and we got the atomic bomb.

 

[stanthevan]

Errr ,..........

The government listened to scientists and we got the atomic bomb.

Which just goes to show that they will listen when they like the outcome.

 

[bigfatolly]

One advantage of living" up on 'ill" in Parkstone is that we don't do floods.