UK flooding: towns underwater as temperatures set to plummet

What are we seeing here then well we’re seeing the flood the flood waters start coming in at the corner of the yard and of course it bubbles up through the drains Sarah David is exhausted she’s been unable to sleep for the last few nights the river at the bottom of her

Garden in Oxford has burst its banks her boat is underwater she’s worried her home will be next well it’s been very unnerving and frightening um you don’t know about water it’s so unpredictable and we flood moderately easily comes into the kitchen sewage all over the place for now a pump is keeping the

Water from Sarah’s back door on the street at the front of her house water is coming up from the sewers so what we have here is a temporary flood barrier where River levels have been really high following all the heavy rain for we’ve had recently and this membrane is protecting

These homes on this street from flooding our teams have been installing these barriers here in osy and in other areas around Oxford protecting several hundred homes we expect to see more frequent and more severe uh weather with climate change and we do expect that to increase the risk of flooding for many people

Across the country which is why we’re investing so much uh and have invested so much in recent years in improving flood resilience across England and specifically here in Oxford once the flood waters have subsided the barriers will be removed but there are plans for a more permanent solution people living here in Oxford

Are longsuffering when it comes to scenes like this but there are plans to build one of the country’s largest flood prevention schemes here the environment agency wants to create a new River to the west of the city the idea is to divert water away from homes and business businesses not everyone supports the

Scheme so a public inquiry is currently underway the canal that runs through the city now looks more like a lake in Parts watery Landscapes also common in Nottinghamshire and chury in Gloucester Shere the environment agency has warn there could be more significant River flooding in the Midlands Lincolnshire

And on the river temps it needs a lot of investment um coming from sort of governmental and even you know International levels it needs a whole sort of rethinking and redesign the investment that goes into managing our flood risk this afternoon the government announced more financial support for

Those affected by flooding but that’s unlikely to pacify its critics who say it isn’t doing enough to tackle climate change the former Minister Chris Skidmore quit yesterday over the issue Chris Skidmore has done the right thing labor quick off theark campaigning in his Kingswood constituency in gler Shere

Today in the north of the county in chury there’s little sign of any letup for those forced out of flooded homes a yellow cold weather alert is expected to last well into next week

The rain has mostly stopped, but the flood risk isn’t over yet – especially for parts of the Midlands, Lincolnshire and the River Thames, where flooding is expected until Monday. And now temperatures are plummeting, prompting a yellow cold weather alert for England through to Friday.

Almost every river is at exceptionally high levels after days of heavy rain, which have flooded more than 1,800 properties

44 comments

  1. Manage the rivers Enviroment Agency and the flooding will stop fact! Dredge the rivers and canals regularly and increase the flow of water like you used to do in the past before you became this "global warming" fearmonger like you are now! Water management has stopped in this country and the infrastructure can not cope, most rivers are man made and the environment agency has let it all fall into disrepair and their sticky bandage approach is an utter joke to this country!

  3. Being forced out of your homes.. endless nights of worry and no sleep… terrible really.. very sorry for you all.

  5. Of course there is, a lot of MPs have houses there! I'm not without sympathy of course, and I know it's been bad and stretched far and wide, but if you live by the river you always live with this risk.

  6. She needs a pump for her backdoor. That statement brought out the purile inner juvenile in me…. AND THEN SKIDMORE APPEARED!!! 😂😂😂😂

  9. Now, lemme see if I've got this right!

    The atmosphere holds 12 trillion Tons of water at any given time..(Look it up,…I did),……Right?

    Eventually, as the Globe is always trying to reach an impossible equilibrium from the the Suns heat output, eventually, that 12 Trillion Tons is going to precipitate some of that 12 Trillion Tons.
    The only question is, when and where?

  11. if working people had voted for Jeremy Corbyn this country wudnt have turned to utter shite..i cannot understand working pple voting tory,who deliberately under resouce & under invest in everything,including the toothless regulators : & of all these privatised nationally nececessary utilities: roads ,train networks, water,energy, the environment ,crumbling ( literally) schools,hospitals,healthcarecare homes…& all so the supra ultra wealthy torys & donors pay no tax..FFS third world,decaying tory broken Britain :that demonizes socialism when all rationally thinking pple want fully funded public services..working pple voting tory are traitors..allowing their fellow citizens to die on the streets & starve their citizens children in foodbank tory Britain .😡🤬😈

  12. Ìts fine our u.k government would rather send money to Israel and killing babies! Then save us from flooding and rising food prices and electricity

  14. We have no control over the whole planet, we have to accept cimate change and invest in schemes to alleviate the consequences.

  16. If my people who are called by my name humble themselves pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land. 2nd Chronicles 7:14
    The only thing that can fix global warming.

  19. It's got nothing to do with climate change, climate change happens year on year, and in different ways, it is the local councils at fault, they are too busy filling up their pension pots, than spending money in the right area's, like river and canal dredging. After almost 40 years of EU rulesof not dredging rivers because on newt population was and still id rediculous, get dredging as soon as the dry weather comes and even before if you can, all councils are to blame, simply because the millenials did not look to the future. These are the idiots running councils these days.

  20. As long as the "experts" mention climate change, the emergency wouldn't have been wasted. That's their creed, anyway…

  23. Climate change is not to blame for flooding. The Environment Agency and their lack of maintenance of rivers and waterways is largely to blame along with planners allowing developments on flood plains. Speak to anyone involved in agriculture about it and they will tell you how a lack of dredging and ditch cleaning to save a few furry animals has led to humans suffering instead

  25. i'm pretty sure we could reduce the flooding if we dredged more rivers and built more and more common flood plains, as well as stopping building on those and areas prone to flooding.

  26. in my area the council is trying to so hard to stop developers from building on the flood plains. The developers just go to the government and win over the council. So who then foots the bill for the flooding that causes? Not the developers and certainly not government!!.
    Planning needs to be overhauled. Developers should not be given free reign and should be made to build infrastructure like schools and doctors surgeries before a single house is built.

  27. They say it's a slight inconvenience, I would be doing my nut, why are people frightened of complaining now, my generation always complained, they have made it anti social now

  29. Not repairing sea defences or even removing them completely.Of cause is making things worse . But its all ways the poor peoples fault. So they should not be selfish and pay more than the really rich people .

  34. They just love to chuck their bullsh*t 'climate change' catchphrase in there!
    Weeks ago, it was forecast that El Nino (caused by warm water in the Pacific) could disrupt the polar vortex disc, causing swirls and eddies of cold air to swing south and warm El Nino air to spread north. The result has always been to cause sharp irregularities and extreme weather. E.g. Moscow got 300mm of snow in one day (150 year record), Cumbria gets 600mm of rain in December, London gets the highest December temperature ever (13 degrees), southern Norway gets massive snowfall. These 'irregularities' were forecast for December and January.
    When these homeowners concrete their front gardens to create a parking space for their second cars or build a patio, they don't consider how much extra rain they'll divert down the drains instead of soaking into the ground. They just expect the rivers to carry that increased capacity!

  35. The lady living in the beautiful home next to the river says "It is so unpredictable"……no it's not!, rivers flood. Don't buy a property next to any river even if there is no previous history of flooding.

  37. If you put a drainage engineer in charge he would unblock the drains, dredge the river and lay bigger drains. That cost money! However if you make an environmental engineer in charge he can blame it on climate change and flooding is part of natural we must live with.

  38. Fantastic news👍 one playing with millions on social media another one sacrifice on the road this has to come to the end and as you see it’s happening slowly soon more and more wars of rumors and invasions around will happen and it will happen this year

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