Cumbria floods: UK sees record rainfall in 24 hours after Storm Desmond 

Who's been sent her for geography class? :)

I just hope everyone on the coast was alright. I guess I'm lucky to live in an area I that has no flooding 😥

This will always happen when people build on flood plains, also you can never build a wall high enough there will always be a super storm to take the water over the top. Just don't buy a home near a river or below the level that it would flood. Great coverage C4.

It is not that the UK has not suffered from floods before (we are a very wet country.) The main problem is it's getting worse every time there is a flood - probably due to rising sea levels.

I live in USA I was in The Great Flood of 2011 i was 4 my first day of pressure school lol

Surely there comes a point when the cost to the nation and the individuals of living on a historic flood plain (or tornado alley in the US) makes it ridiculous to keep moving back in?

Any MP that says this is because of CO2 should be put out of work as they have said NO to solar panels and tree planting on my own land in Dorset. :(

Why can't the House of Commons impeach David Cameron and charge him? He has not helped the situation at all and now all these affected people have lost everything, you are in our hearts and thoughts during this time

I remember this. 7inch and 12inch vinyls came out of the sky. It was a record rainfall.

Do a RU-vid search 'UK floods' and you will find that there were floods in 2011,2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. Nothing new here. It rains a lot in the UK.

If the young lad is correct, this happens every 5 years or so , does that mean the property value would be low?

Anyone else only here cause of geography class?😂

ladies and gentlemen, the benefits od global warming. EVERY ONE loses. whether you live in the UK or the pacific. EVERY ONE.

WOW!

There is only so much flood protection you can give at the end of the day sadly, we need to realize storm's are only going to get worse and we should be looking at buildings which can raise if an area floods, look at the Netherlands they build house which can float on water.

anyone watching for school

I still remember this as my dad's best friend's house got destroyed and he only moved into it a few months before and my own house got flooded also it wasn't fun I wasn't able to get to primary school and I live next to it

0:22 *bars.*

This is England.

Unlike most other countries, I wonder why the UK doesn't have a high death toll if there's flooding? In a lot of countries, the death toll often reaches well over the hundreds mark if it floods.

That's some size pipe .I would say nearly impossible too do

The Inca were masters of erosion control, the steps on their roads were for erosion control not to make it easier. Take their strategy, slow flow everywhere it's accelerating with micro-terracing, this is raking rocks into a small dam where rivulets form on hillsides that shed water too easily, slow it there and it can't gain volume so fast to flood the towns so quickly. Terracing against flow is the only practical strategy and it takes people doing it that see where to make them, start at the top of the hill and follow the rill all the way. A comment on what's going on, these are not "storms" like the past following a sinuous jetstream that had west-to-east flow, they are air-masses flowing between semi-stationary bound vortexes, the center of the "storm", and they are huge, 2,000km in diameter seen best on earth.nullschool.net/

Why not use army type boats and floating vechicles , landin craft with wheels etc, hovercraft?

This country is going down the shitter

Geoengineering the weather needs to end!

but don't worry too much: the cop21 is at work for reducing the carbon footprint on 2050, just be patient.

BUT DID ANYONE FIND MY GLOVE

Allah en grande

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Sympathy for the wretched people.....

MY HOUSE IS FOR SALE IN GRIMSBY FLOOD FREE ZONE

To my fellow Brits - if you can help please help. Even couple of £s will help!!! If you would like to donate - Cumbria Community Foundation is a good start. Also please support RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) Thanks