2007-06-25 08:21:53 · 15 answers · asked by emess48 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
The stupid govt wastes loads of time and money banning smoking but despite repeated warnings is doing nothing about flood defences and encourages buiding on flood planes.
After ten years they have done about the weather!!!
2007-06-25 11:59:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biggest laugh of the day for me was finding myself on this Indian website, a news channel. They had a java thing of a load of rain coming down with the caption "Happy Monsoon".
Okay, so we've got the UK Monsoon and India is having the usual Indian Monsoon.
June in UK is often a rainy month and NO I do not believe the flooding has anything to do with what councils may or may not have done to clear out the drains.
2007-06-25 15:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by Dragoner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fair question. Although there has been far more rain than usual its the councils' responsibility to keep the drains clear.
If they've not be cleared proerly then the water will have built up quicker, and will take longer to clear away. Either way after all this deluge they'll certailny have to clear the drains out!
2007-06-26 06:24:24 · answer #3 · answered by Simon C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
partly, but it's also caused by drains that have not been updated for years, and so cannot hold all this water.
Our drain is never cleared, and yet the drain is at the entrance onto the A227. This means that not only does our road flood so badly you cannot leave the drive without being ankle deep in water, but also that the main road gets flooded.
2007-06-26 03:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by Kit Fang 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and NO and it depends on where you live and what the neighbourhood is like.
If there is a lot of rubbish/litter, etc, which can blocked the drains, also the drains are big enough to cope with 10 inches of rain in any one day, but again, you know what they say, if it works, do not repair it.
2007-06-25 15:31:00 · answer #5 · answered by The_Informer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have 4 inches of rain in an hour, remember its not just four inches over the drains, but often over square miles, so NO drains in the UK will cope with that amount and if it could what river is capable of taking the drain discharge
2007-06-25 15:37:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but I know what you mean, walking along my street, every drain gutter is blocked. I have never seen the council clearing them.
2007-06-25 15:30:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cities and other municipalities are legally responsible for controlling the migration of rain water and can be sued by other municipalties for failing to do so.
2007-06-25 15:27:20 · answer #8 · answered by Steve C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The drains are big enuf to deal with normal rain, not monsoons.
2007-06-25 15:26:00 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yet again this boils down to funding and you would think wit hus paying high council tax that this service should be provided......
However we only have to think back to winter when they refused to grit our roads .. it all boils down to money these days
2007-06-25 15:25:39 · answer #10 · answered by sammie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋