Scotland floods: drone footage shows devastating impact in Dumfries 

Time he faced the consequences.🤮

Most likely the drains need clearing, the older parts of the cities where always built on higher ground.

Ask your council why drain and sewage cleaning that used to be done once a month. Is now done once a year if you are lucky leading to reduced run off capacity leading to localised flooding. Nothing to do with more rain it’s an infrastructure problem the same all over.

Ironically the cop 26 is in Glasgow isn't it?

They need to update the ‘ Infrastructure’

@anonymous one You need to worry, especially when it’s affecting lives, and property!!🙄

I live on a hill.😀

Could it possibly be both? The give away is the science.

@@tonydempsey9404 Who checks the science ? Is it correct or cherry picked ? We need clean air just look at the smog we used to get in London but is it true that man is responsible or is it just part of the natural cycle of the planet ? We need renewables as no one can argue that we can take from the planet faster than the planet can replace what we have taken. Is climate change man made or do we just see more because we have mobile phones with cameras ? Only time will tell the truth, with the socialist claiming they reversed climate change to we have not done enough and the conservatives filling their pockets with wades of money gained from selling things we did not need.

I was hoping someone with local knowledge would comment. Is this flooding the usual sort of level ? Or is it unusual ?

@@davidevans7797 I live in the Lake District and the floods this week have been pretty bad, but nothing we haven’t seen before.

@@davidevans7797 I live on the sands, thankfully I was unaffected but not everyone was as lucky. But aye this is totally normal, happens every year or two.

@@davidevans7797No it is on sandy soil, it's not unusual at all

That is it in a nutshell. But Dumfries pubs used to be bursting full of people from the seventies till finally in the mid nineties it was just weekends and even then there were empty pubs. People are moving away from the alcohol scene they want something new, its going out of fashion..like smoking.

What can you do against that level of rain? Seriously?

@@TriviaChallenge Don’t build on flood plains and slow the water down further up stream.

@@TriviaChallenge Build flood defences where the water is topping over the lower lying areas of the banking?

@@jamesperrie1393 Where do you get this flood plain stuff from ? Dumfries is hundreds of years old if it was always flooding there wouldn’t of built a town there.

@@martyfeldman3269 here’s a clue when the same area along a river continually floods then it’s a flood Plain. They built on flood plains and learned to manage the river, guess what when you stop looking after the river at the point of the flood and further up the river it floods again. Do you actually believe no one is ever built on a flood plain. 😂😂

'I imagine' 🤦🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

You would think, with modern technology, they would be able to stop the flooding? 🤷‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

@@bettyrobb8219 money talks.

@@greengrass9572 You got that right! 👍🏻🙋‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

Yes it was, It's interesting history if you read up on the witch drowning.

Same for houses on or right on the edge of beaches.

views i guess

These ones don't

That is so hilarious!

Tesla's float apparently, downriver to the sea I would assume

Better buy an extra pair of wellies..... ;}

Their not listening, they think it’s to do with drains being blocked and new build estates on flood plains. No ! It’s over efficient land drainage and it’s just getting worse.

The road will cave in. Have you seen the jets of water that shoot out of the path from the dock park leading to St Michaels school? And about half way up the hill the water was running underfoot.That was a hot day so imagine that erosion 24hrs a day under the tar.

It's the real deal sadly... we're gonna get more of this in the future

@@dedebrooklyn I think you and we have greater problems looming over the horizon. The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), the Dutch national weather service, published a report today Klimatsignaal´21 based on the models of the UN-climatpanel IPCC published this summer 2021and KNMI´s own research. Their last 2014 report published forecasted a rising of the sea lever with 100 cm at the end of year 2100. Today´s report forecasts a rising between 54 cm and 121cm using a model where the world keeps burning fosil fuels and Earth warms up with 4,4 degree celsius. In a more optimistic IPCC model the sea level rises at the end of the 21th century between 30 cm and 94 cm. It also forecast more extreme weather like Europe experienced this summer 2021 in France, Luxemburg, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands along the river Meuse and Mosel. ]or what South East England, Kent experienced August 2021. As a reaction on this Klimaatsignaal´21 report the Dutch Water Boards, Unie van Waterschappen, already demanded from our law makers to put this topic higher on their agenda.

@@micheltibon6552 Yes. About a meter by the end of the century under current emissions. Horton - Estimated global mean sea-level rise - NJP.

Well it’s got nothing to do with the climate scam.

@@micheltibon6552 these the same guys that said most of Florida and New York would under water by 2000 huge parts of the UK coastline gone under water. Millions of hectares of land lost for ever. Pacific islands gone. Polar ice all gone.

High risk doesn't mean it should flood to this level, and doesn't normally. These are the worst flood in 50 years despite modern flood protections.

According to the science, at greater risk with each passing year.

@@ycylchgames what a load of BS that is. Dumfries floods there regularly bad river management is to blame and building on a flood plain. Nothing to do with the climate farce.

@@jamesperrie1393 Anna is what 600+ years old? Do you think there would be a consist town there if this area regularly flooded like this without modern flood management? It was always on a flood plain so explain to me what's changed?

@@ycylchgames you’ve been told already in these comments the complete and total lack of river management and the surrounding environment in the last decade as the councils and the SNaziP have made cuts after cuts.

It’s not changing very quickly. That’s why they keep saying, “In ten years it will be too late.” Then the 10 years passes by and we have only another ten years before it’s too late. So I’ll pass on that

@@salsalvio821 We actually have three years left. Further, the processes will accelerate exponentially. Everyone who tells us about some mythical decades does not tell the real truth. People themselves decided to tell, scientists who do not obey the system and think about people. That is why on December 4 there will be an online conference on climate with simultaneous translation into more than a hundred languages. Find out the truth! Join us!

And/or Brexit. Definitely nothing to do with EU laws stopping authorities dredging rivers, for risk of disturbing newts or some other cobblers.

I think they know it's climate change, you just sound like you have a chip on your shoulder, considering the majority of scots consider themselves british

Why not? The English should stop licking America's boots and free Julian Assange from the super max Belmarsh prison where he is rotting for exposing U.S. war crimes.

@@marcuspd477 You're not in the EU. Bit slow are you?

@Precious Chorf The English never clean up their mess. Look at Northern Ireland.

😂😂😂 do you actually believe the BS you spout.

Five times the amount of rainfall? That's Quite a bit

Hello Cristina, your photo said pretty much about you, how are you doing today?

The sands has always flooded, it's nothing new. You can't stop hundreds of years of erosion. What do you think is happening underneath the road? Can you remember the giant sinkhole up at the traffic lights at the dock park?It was built on sandy soil.

Thanks for the weather report. A pity you know nothing about Climatology.

@@yanniritsarntyios5744 Or topology.

It’s been raining for 2 whole days here in North West England and we’ve been flooding since yesterday morning

It's been raining for a week here in Dumfriesshire. 'That' in itself is nothing new, but the amount of rain has been colossal. That's less than usual.

Any opportunity to say something childish eh?

@@reecekennedy8528 🙈🙊🙉

Better build that wall back up

What other area’s 😂 🤔

@@wrinklies2167 Upstream! There's miles and miles of 'the same' river upstream, all providing the same types of habitat - sand banks, gravel banks, shallow areas. There's no need to dredge any of that. (Besides, you couldn't even if you wanted to). The same plants and animals live here, upstream, as live in the small length of river section that flows through the town. I cannot see that there would be any major harm in dredging this small section to protect the town. By continually flooding this area, causing damage to buildings, fittings, business products and vehicles - that's causing way more environmental damage in disposing and replacing all of that than dredging a limited area of river.

Nope

Not entirely

Climate Emergency first announced in 1980 - emergency means imminent.

If you think it’s to do with climate change and flooding is somehow a new concept you’ve really been hitting that coolaid 🤣

@@thomasace2547 Totally with you on that score, I'm nearly 70 and recall the excitement of watching the river near my childhood home flood regularly when I was less than 10 years old.

@@thomasace2547 Kool-Aid. And they drank Flavor Aid at Jonestown. You can't even get that right. Westra - Future changes to the intensity and frequency of short-duration extreme rainfall - Reviews of Geophysics. For every one degree C of global temperature rise, which we've had in the Industrial Era, there is an increase of 7% water vapour in the atmosphere, this is causing more intense rainfall events. Because water vapour is also a Greenhouse gas it's positive feedback which also increases warming.

@@thomasace2547 increased extreme weather events. Welcome to the anthropocene mr “ace”.

@@yanniritsarntyios5744 Calling “Climate Change” a strictly human endeavour is to completely ignore Billions of years of this planets climate shifts And even then, the global climate report could only verify that over the last 200 years the medium temperature increase is “maybe” 3’C Antarctica just had one of its coldest winters ever recorded No, I’m not saying Man doesn’t effect climate, but year on year methane build up from cattle farming is more than what vehicles contribute. Look at China, they have increased their coal burning by a factor of *5X* in 30 years, and want to continue, and as a local side effect now deal with larger floods than normal, not only climate involved by also from destructive Hydro Dams If you really think the U.K. is a great climate change influence, you are indeed delusional

ThatI doubt.

Aye well fair enough if you insist.