Emergency in Dawlish: Police Shut Down Roads Amidst Flash Flood Chaos 

I found one in a flooded graveyard. They had nothing to say.

🤌🤌@@stevekelly5166

@@stevekelly5166They died from drowning

1810? I was there at quarter past....

Well yas got the good weather & high temps in the summer .Can't have the carrot without sometimes taking the stick .Look at other parts of the world lol that's nothing.

They're not new, but seem to be happening at an increasing rate.

Sometimes there’s just too much rain to deal with. It’s like filling a bath tub with a fire hose

I thought everything was climate change? 😂

@@PickleThePig Don't forget "emergency"!

@@PickleThePig You are right; we have caused this by driving our cars. Must be a new tax in it somewhere; let's hope Khans watching.

You misspelled gravity

All those years and no one thought of barriers or culverts

@@user-yp7rn6tb2t Councils are thick as two planks in UK

100% agree.

Well said/

Any yet we pay more every year for less maintenance

i was just saying that to someone in work yesterday 😂

@@zaffiqbal9740 We certainly do. The whole country is broken...purposely of course.

Nah, I'm sure the freshwater fish & co. had a great time in the sea.

See the enviroment agency are doing a spiffing job.wasters.

No worries india .morroco.and the rest will send help .pray to sunak.

The sea wall is a sea wall, not a brook wall. And the river overtopped so how do you think they would feel?🤪

@@ForbiddenPlanetB With people like Daviddm saturating SM with provocatively false hope; purposefully giving the layperson an excuse not to do anything, then what you suggest will likely become a certainty and much sooner.😥😡

Calm down robot with your ",,,," try electrifying. You gotta shape up. Doo doo doo.

Yup, my thoughts upon seeing the brook was "well there's a whole lot of soil that's not going to be feeding us in the future". Many people don't appreciate soil - they probably think that it's soil "all the way down" and not just the top layer.

Yes ,although it`s mostly hidden by the flood water you can see that the channel is for a greater amount of water than for a `brook`.

I moved to a house near a stream, until it flooded, for about 3 years afterwards everyone started calling it "the river"

The cloud seeding before the Lynmouth flood was denied until an airman reported that he was involved. The water that fell from Exmoor that evening was greater than the maximum discharge recorded on the Thames. A bridge on the East Lyn river was blocked by trees and then gave way. The flood down the combined Lyn rivers then occurred at night carrying away street lighting and subsequently housing.

is greta thunberg due to speak in dawlish this weekend?

The brook (not a major river) is a fairly shallow one and was very clear of silt as quite fast flowing normally, the flow was halted or slowed by high spring tides before the works completed. This was at low tide when it burst its banks due to sheer volume of water. Some Beavers should be introduced upstream to help control flows, natures water engineers and habitat managers.

Brianjones - u r a plonker.

​@@tonys1636they also block rivers.

Nothing to do with dredging, dredging can cause more problems. It's flood plain development, re-routing of flow and poor upland management. There is also just freak weather instances that just cause freak flooding. Especially after dry spells where the ground is hard.

Tree planting and soil management would be a more structured and managed approach than beavers ..who would take an intederminate time to alter . They arent as popular with farmers and introducing them takes planning and agreement. The river is in a steep valley and it is that which contributes in a major way to flash flooding as the 1950's River Lyn showed ..and the more major recent flah flood several years ago. ...its all about the Geography..and human sttlement in valleys near rivers. ..By the way you cant dredge on d bedrock.....

It’s the consequence of huge quantities of rain. Rural land floods too given enough precipitation

Well there's plenty of DiNGY labour available. Who would be more than willing and grateful to help those that have helped them ? CORRECT?

Why are you apologising?

The coastal towns of the area are often situated below higher ground ,so obviously if that ground receives massive rainfall the runoff is going to be through through the lower lying town .

Helicopters?

A huge bucket?

Where the ice melts in heat, water gets up in evaporation. That gets high, heat rises, meets cold clouds and back down it comes. Not the same water, it’s all on the move.

@@williamrbuchanan4153 thought the ice cap was growing ?

@@williamrbuchanan4153 You have now failed your CSE in Geography twice, but have a grade 1 in Bullshittery. I expect your parents are proud of you. Try, English as a second language, next.

@@azillliasmith2734 The north polar ice is melting. The Southern polar ice grew initially due to greater precipitation (technically the Antarctic is a cold desert) because it was snowing more, but now its sea ice and ice shelves are melting. This is really bad because the Antarctic continental ice isn't already displacing sea water, so if its land glaciers melt there will be very rapid sea level rise, plus less ice means less light reflection. Less light reflection means more rapid warming , means more rapid melting, means a rather nasty negative feedback loop. Luckily humankind is onto this and we are all pulling together to avert the crisis. Oh look a unicorn!

GFY

People I know got stuck in neighbouring villages and plenty of roads got shut down

@@Luna_YTok, just calm down and enjoy how our planet is alive

Rain from early hours Saturday morning and then storms over dartmoor most likely the cause. Exmouth and paignton train route flooded. Then Tiverton to Taunton. Even the steam at Minehead stopped becaue of flooding😊

what's worse is that one of them has run out of steak bakes