Rain, rain and more rain

[Phil]

Eastbourne got £2m of public money to repair a pier. Cameron announced it personally.

Lib Dem / Tory marginal that. Can't think why they'd be getting the same amount of money for one, non-essential, thing. I'll have to look into it.

Surely you can't be suggesting the tories would act out of venality and self interest?

[longboard]

She said the government will help in the aftermath by allowing the council to up council tax. Nice one

 

We swampy people in the valley are relying on you to keep working. 

[longboard]

It looks like there are strong winds and yet more rain on the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Futtocks]

Okay, that's disturbing...

[longboard]

Okay, that's disturbing...

 

Yes. A bit queasy making.

[Wolford6]

As if the Calder Valley hasn't suffered enough this winter ....

 

 

Andy Kershaw has just stated that he lives in Todmorden.

[JohnM]

Wireform which is, I think the last manufacturing business in Hebden Bridge has announced it won't be reopening and its 45 employees are now jobless.

A guy I work with who lives in Hebden reckons 25 to 33% of the high st shops won't be reopening.

Could turn into a bit of a ghost town

BBC One Show is coming live from Hebden Bridge as I write. Shoulder  of Mutton

[Wolford6]

Anybody watching tonight's One Show from Hebden Bridge?

 

Obviously, no  government minister turned up but some glib government spokeswoman came on and said that the Tories had given £200million to the north of England to help flood-striken communities in the north of England.

 

Cut to a couple who had been flooded out of their house and won't be able to return for nine months or so. They had been given £200 by the TSB and £500 by Calderdale Council.

[Saintslass]

Anybody watching tonight's One Show from Hebden Bridge?

 

Obviously, no  government minister turned up but some glib government spokeswoman came on and said that the Tories had given £200million to the north of England to help flood-striken communities in the north of England.

 

Cut to a couple who had been flooded out of their house and won't be able to return for nine months or so. They had been given £200 by the TSB and £500 by Calderdale Council.

If you add together the various £50 millions announced in stages plus flood defence funding, plus the repair work (which central government pays after a threshold is reached) plus council tax relief and small business rate relief and the £1 million given to the Cumbria Foundation flood appeal, etc, etc, then £200 million won't be that far off.  By its very nature most of the money given in flood relief and repair will be for infrastructure work and so individuals won't see much of that at all in their own pockets.  What is in the pockets of the people will come from their own insurance company in the main, once the immediate needs are met (like food, clothes and housing).

[shaun mc]

The cost to Cumbria alone is estimated to be £500m to £600m - and then there's Lancashire, Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, etc, etc.

If the Govt is providing £200m - where's the remaining say £700m coming from for the north

This Govt has got into the way of just giving a soundbite with x£m included in it, in the hope that people just swallow it

[Saintslass]

The cost to Cumbria alone is estimated to be £500m to £600m - and then there's Lancashire, Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, etc, etc.

If the Govt is providing £200m - where's the remaining say £700m coming from for the north

This Govt has got into the way of just giving a soundbite with x£m included in it, in the hope that people just swallow it

I think you'll find from stories such as the one below that the government is spending far more than £200 million on the winter floods.  They have already allocated £40 million to fixing the A road in the Lake District that was washed away.  And they have allocated £50 million each to Cumbria and Yorkshire for initial cover.  Under an agreement, the name of which I have presently forgotten, central government meets all costs over a threshold amount and so I would imagine as yet the government doesn't actually know what it will be paying out as the costs won't yet be fully known.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35184999

[longboard]

BBC One Show is coming live from Hebden Bridge as I write. Shoulder  of Mutton

 

Was it any good?

[JohnM]

Not bad for something involving Matt Baker. Very much covered the situation on the ground, the current state of business, told the the victims story.

[Wolford6]

Snowing

[Bedford Roughyed]

Good chance that Rochdale town centre is going to flood again.  

[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[Saintslass]

55 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

 

How freaky!  

[Saintslass]

1 hour ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

Good chance that Rochdale town centre is going to flood again.  

I hope that's avoided.  

 

[ckn]

2 posts deleted, one original, one quoting it in exasperation.

Come on... give it a break, please.

[Oxford]

 

 

[gazza77]

2 hours ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

 

It's an eery sound, especially when you can hear it up on the hillsides as it echoes around the valley. We live about a mile out of Hebden Bridge, but 1000ft above sea level, and you can hear it clearly every time it is sounded, such as this afternoon. 

[Bedford Roughyed]

11 minutes ago, gazza77 said:

It's an eery sound, especially when you can hear it up on the hillsides as it echoes around the valley. We live about a mile out of Hebden Bridge, but 1000ft above sea level, and you can hear it clearly every time it is sounded, such as this afternoon. 

I don't think things are 2015 bad yet, but still pretty high?

[Clogiron]

4 hours ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

Good chance that Rochdale town centre is going to flood again.  

Have they got the covers down

[Phil]

2 hours ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

I don't think things are 2015 bad yet, but still pretty high?

Pretty high but dropping now 

[gazza77]

3 hours ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

I don't think things are 2015 bad yet, but still pretty high?

No, very little breached, fortunately. That said, for all the work that is being done locally, allegedly it wouldn't stop the 2015 level flooding anyway, as it's modelled on the 2012 flooding...