People just expect to have running water and electricity all the time. They are using drinking water just to flush some pee down the loo. Britain has gone soft. No one is going to starve, drown etc. and half the population could do with loosing some weight anyway, so half rations and a bit of water bailing, furniture carrying, won't harm them either.
It is probably the first time some people have even met their neighbours, so it's done them a favour in the long run.
2007-07-24 23:50:37 · 18 answers · asked by dsclimb1 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
yes, only 2 deaths, not sick. 2 deaths is low, low at new orleans, bangladesh, the UK needs to put things in perspective. With respect to the mum, the deaths were twins 21weeks only, so odd were no in their favour, floods or not.
2007-07-24 23:55:26 · update #1
i have survived many week without power or water, i live proper rurally, you just survive. use of bucket.
yes someone has died and that is sad, but dozens die on the UKs road every day and no one even notices, 1000 dies from diabetes, cancer etc ever month.
2007-07-24 23:57:33 · update #2
no ,not in flood zone, but then again it is not rocket science, their is website to check before you buy. You live below some hills and by a house on a street call 'beck view' 'stream side' come on, this has been as flood waiting to happen for years.
2007-07-24 23:59:14 · update #3
How many bbc reporters and helicopters come from london to Yorkshire??
2007-07-25 00:00:06 · update #4
More Brits have died in Iraq, 4 in the past week whilst the floods are going on.
2007-07-25 00:01:19 · update #5
Airport security, what ? British people are soft in terms of what they can endure, floods, snow, diana dying... we no longer have and stomach to dig in and work hard. We moan at the drop of hat, has mass hysteria at the loss of someone we never know. Thank God there is not another world war, we would never survive, people would just sit there waiting for the goverment to bail them out.
2007-07-25 00:03:53 · update #6
Not insulting, Im generalising about how pathetic the UK must appear to people in countries with real difficulties, look at fires in Europe, no houses left, never mind a bit of damp.
2007-07-25 00:05:15 · update #7
yes deaths are bad, billionns on insurance - thats whats it for, homes flood but not burnt down - all very fixable, somethings are irreplacable, surely people would have moved stuff up stair , attic etc. I live in the north and heard of the rain / flood coming last thursday.
2007-07-25 00:35:01 · update #8
how many people would have died driving or from accidents at home, had there not been a flood, death is bad, but needs to be in perspective,
2007-07-25 00:39:56 · update #9
60 year or so cycle?
(it happened back in 1957 but was overshadowed by major flooding of areas around the Thames estuary)
Any PREVENTABLE death is unfortunate, but as you say it is very low for the amount of fuss made over the flooding/it's effects.
It's good that the emergency services train for such events (including going and helping abroad), but most of the general public in the UK don't really have a clue how much they unconsciously rely on all kinds of support systems (local shops, roads, running water,electricity etc), until they fail. Even something as simple as going camping a few times and needing to fetch water in a container would provide some "training". As they haven't prepared, they really don't know what to do, other than making a big noise, until someone else sorts it out for them. After all it's always worked in the past.
LOL. A few good general strikes lasting a week of two, and people soon figure out how to make food go further, deal with water/electric supply being off.
2007-07-25 00:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by Steve C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What I have found disappointing about this incident is the implication by some that poor countries and people the UK has assisted in the past such as the Indonesian peasants wiped out by the Tsunami should now contribute aid towards buying new carpets and tv's for the British flood victims.
Some people need to get a grip and some perspective.
For the people in the UK these floods are more in line with a major inconvenience than a proper natural disater that wiped towns off the map like the boxing day tsunami.
2007-07-25 07:04:13 · answer #2 · answered by 203 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
how would you like it if your house was flooded? or you had no running water? you would probably want a bit of sympathy from people.
We are lucky that we live in the UK and we can deal with all these things better than many countries around the world but that doesn't make it any more distressing or shocking when it does happen. Have some sympathy
2007-07-25 06:54:23 · answer #3 · answered by Stephen M 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know the conditions in many African countries are far worse than here in the UK, but do not make light of peoples suffering, two lives is still 2 to many. Yes life in Britain is easy to some places but that does not make it any less pleasant for the people who have lost their possessions. A little compassion on you part is required I feel.
2007-07-25 07:00:24 · answer #4 · answered by Jim 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
People are moaning as you put it because of the upset and damage caused by these floods,you, I take it from your stupid,inane question have not been affected,neither have I. Nevertheless. I feel a great deal of sympathy for these people whose lives have been so disrupted. The only ones I have no sympathy for are the idiots who weren't insured. As to your question, I shall never cease to be amazed at the stupidity and insensitiveness of other people !
2007-07-25 06:59:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree,
I live in the North, and when the exact same thing happened in Yorkshire there were more deaths and just as many people left without power etc, but the amount of press coverage on this because it is in the midlands and south rather than the north is incredible, I'm sick of hearing about it. Yes it would be terrible to be stuck in it, but its hardly the same as the starving people in Africa is it
2007-07-25 06:54:45 · answer #6 · answered by mark t 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's a question of being hit by flooded and the new PM has to show that he is at heart with British problems. I think it a manifestation and may are bored with the BBC at its repeat.
2007-07-25 07:21:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So if your house was flooded, you'd be happy as Larry about it would you?
Don't think so. How ignorant can you get!
Oh, and when areas up North get flooded, we DO hear a load about it and are sympathetic to your losses so stop judging and remember how it feels when it happens to you.
As for your edit regarding how many BBC reporters travel from London to Yorkshire - are you trying to say that us in the South only ever get news from our own areas? News is worldwide, remember that. You really are ignorant aren't you. In future, think about your questions before you post them. You've made an idiot of yourself im afraid!
2007-07-25 06:56:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
4 deaths, thousands homeless, £billions on insurance.
Go live in tent next to the sewage farm for the next 6 months having lost irreplacable photo's etc. then tell us it isn't so bad.
2007-07-25 07:29:02 · answer #9 · answered by Red P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is what my husband says...he is from the north. When they get floods, the south does not even bat an eye, but when they get it, they think everybody must stop for them!
and to Miss naive TRACY....you are the one who is not well informed
2007-07-25 06:56:32 · answer #10 · answered by boo 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋