The Best Way to Deal With Floods

England doesn’t often see terribly drastic weather, but when it does it really goes all out to cause destruction. Back in 2000 the entire southern section of the country was knee deep in water as floods took over the whole region. Only Surrey and London escaped the deluge, but towns around Hampshire, West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent were put on high alert.

After the rain stopped falling the damage could be primarily assessed by rescue workers and emergency crews. The flood waters were so high that they needed pumping equipment in Horsham to clear out flood water from homes and buildings, a man was swept away in Uckfield but managed to escape, and it was a total misery for all the homeowners and businesses.

2012 and thereafter

Again, in 2012 Britain was bashed by serious flooding. Throughout the year there was reports of unusual weather all around the country. Random areas were hit with flash floods and at the same time just weeks before the country had been in a drought. The heat wave of March 2012 had quickly turned into system of low pressure that brought one of the wettest April’s on record and certainly the wettest in one hundred years.

In June—after a reasonably quiet May—the North of England was cut off from the south because of the heavy rain and the Met office issued a ‘red alert’, suspending rail services between England and Scotland due to severe landslides.

When the Beaminster Tunnel in Dorset partially collapsed, one couple were killed. A landslide caused by the heaviest rains in years washed seven hundred tonnes of slush and mud to envelope their car. At that time Dorset Police were responding to no less than 150 different flood warnings and they were heavily under manned in the field and the control rooms.

The storms had a devastating effect on much of the country with countrywide damages estimated to be very close to one billion pounds. Property, cars, houses, sheds, trees and many other items were lost or damaged, many of them irreplaceable. It also came a time when the Government was in negotiations with insurance companies to provide cheaper insurance for homeowners in flood prone areas. Browse the website for more information.