Flood Risk
March 7th, 2010 @ 12:59 | permalink
The post one day last week (I really should remember which day given that it is an infrequent occurrence) brought with it a missive from the Environment Agency informing me that "floods operate in my area". I greeted this with some amusement.
Why?
It wasn't because they appear to have borrowed their slogan from the Home Office and I'm prepared to accept that they don't necessary know that I'm not in a ground (or first as the cousins would say) floor flat.
No, it was because the nearest serious bodies of water to me are respectively 1 mile (River Thames), 2 miles (River Crouch) and 5 miles (English Channel). There is a small trickle of water running along behind the complex but given that it takes a serious night of rain to raise the level of that by even a foot I'm not going consider it a serious threat.
Given this I think I can safely ask to be taken off of their notification list because if I - or indeed the flat below me - finds itself flooded out then I think we can fairly much write off the entire South East corner of the country.
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