A Town Underwater - Could You Live Here?
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2023
- Thank you to Rapheal for all the incredible footage, check out his website here - raphaeloo.com/
In this video I explore the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. A beautifull place which is prone to extreme flooding at times.
I wanted to have a wander around and look at some of the causes of this. I also got to speak to a range of business owners who were affected by the floods in many different ways, so it was great to get these stories involved.
I found a house that was for sale in an area that floods really badly so I arranged a viewing of that property to show you how much damage the floods can do to buildings in the direct line of the water.
Thanks to everyone who to spoke to me for this video -
Max - www.tothemaxfitness.co.uk/
Ruaraidh - www.freshgrills.co.uk/
Ed - hebtro.co/
Slow the flow - slowtheflow.net/
I hope you enjoy,
W.T
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Who needs BBC TV when you are making such excellently well-informed and spiritually uplifting films. Thank you and well done Mr. Turnip.
Nobody needs the BBC
I agree💯 the BBC only care about their rich cronies.
Nobody needs the BBC!
BBC is pure agenda trash. Cancel your licence if you haven’t already.
Who would trust the bbc for truthful reporting , every report is from a leftist point of view so they can blame climate change … This place shouldn’t have been built in it’s a giant drain ….
When i worked at Yorkshire Electricity, i was tasked with isolating the electricity supply to a house that looked like the one in your documentary. But this house was closer to Todmorden. I opened the front door and nearly dropped into the cellar. The sofa, chairs, and table were all in the basement. The weight of the water caused the living room floor to collapse into the basement. It was close to midnight everything was in darkness. We had to leave that one until the water level dropped even further.
Hearing a siren always puts a shiver down my spine. I wouldn’t buy that house, even if it was only a few pounds. Wandering Ferret made me chuckle. Thank you for a fantastic video.
I wouldn't buy it even if it cost 1p. Place is absolutely ruined.
You have a natural talent for storytelling; an incredibly engaging and informative video. Oh, and there _is_ a WanderingFerret channel but they've not posted a vid for 12 years! 😂
I really appreciate that! And no way, I might have to reach out for a collab with the Ferret 😂😂
Do ferrets eat turnips?🤣🤣
You have an authenticity, Mate, that makes your channel addictive. “When the water rises, you’re bricking it” - you’re telling it as it is! Fabulous stuff.
Ah nice one for this 😀😀
Lots of reasons we are flooding, mismanagement of drains etc, the amount of filled in or unattended waterways near me is ridiculous, building on unsuitable areas, paving over front gardens, people paving over back gardens and plastic grass, people getting rid of plants, shrubs and trees.
I live in Missouri USA and they test our sirens every Wednesday for tornadoes. Only had 2 tornadoes hit our area in 14 years. Love watching your channel
i heard those sirens when i was in minnesota last, being from uk it made me nervous, and my son forgot to tell me they were practice sirens,
Your best yet. A real step up in production and editing and I felt I was watching a TV documentary. I lived in Tod for a number of years and also worked in Sowerby so travelled the valley every day. Now over the border in Bacup (for the uninitiated it's about 1.25 miles from West Yorkshire).
I didn't know about the grouse shooting on the moors, but was aware that part of the blame in 2015 was on overgrazing by sheep on the moorland. Wouldn't be surprised if it was a deflection of blame from a wealthy and controversial business on to a subsistence farming lifestyle that hasn't the means to defend itself and has existed for hundreds of years.
Looking forward to the next one and the Rossendale Valley might not make a bad subject.
Yh there was flooding in Sowerby bridge and Friendly too
The Calder Valley has become a favourite spot for BBC and Channel 4 employees to live as they both move some of their operations to Leeds, I think that's why the house prices have shot up but with comes an economic boost bringing regeneration as well.
The reputation of the area as a creative hub has probably saved it some suffering.
I'm a roofer and that roof looks relatively decent. That membrane is a felt that goes under the tiles and battens and it looks of good quality with no tears or damages at a glance.
I really am glad I actually paid some attention to Geography back in school. We studied the horrific 2008 Morpeth floods (there was a second flood in 2012), which was just horrific, so none of the effects of the floods you showed here was a surprise to me.
I used to live in Burnley, and lived very close to the Calder and the river got rather high, but never quite to the point of bursting its banks, but I would imagine that in the valley there would be problems.
This is a great video, hopefully this should bring some more awareness to the flooding that can happen in areas of the country. Such well put together, this is the sort of thing that I'd totally want to see broadcasted on TV.
Hey thank you for watching 😀
Calder in Brythonic means the Rough Waters, Well named and for bloody good reasons!! Worth mentioning that there are also Rivers Calder in Cumbria and Strathclyde which also fit their name.
So informative, thank you. The council should ban the burning of land seeing as that action can have a catastrophic effect on the valley.
The photos left behind in the flooded house give it even more of an eerie feel.. Best of luck to the brave person who bought it.. 🤞
They clearly have faith in the flood defences and believe they can breath new life back into it..
Very interesting vlog. Thank you, Mr Ferret.. 😆
As it was an online auction, the person who won has probably never even been there. I bet the description doesn't mention anything about flood risk.
I have heard it said the worst thing is picking up all their photos and life memories out of the mud and water, not just the home itself. Heartbreaking.
I think this could be a really interesting series as so many places have insufficient flood defences, hearing from local businesses is really important reflection of community impact.
Makes me wonder if better river care could help flooding issues as so many rivers and canals used to be dredged when they were more relied on for trade. The Heather and grouse shooting is something I'd never heard of, shocking!
Those sirens are terrifying, great reuse of them but not a noise I'd forget being woken by.
Yeah good shout, I’ll have a look at some other places that have been hit bad 👍👍
Hearing those sirens is so chilling. I know they were originally air raid sirens, now used for flood warnings
Such a brilliantly edited and interesting video. You’re a natural in front of the camera. Hello from Macclesfield.
Hey thanks for that mate 😀👍
You've done your hometown proud😎
13:00 I don't if it's cos I'm a Gen Xer growing up during the cold war, but those air raid sirens always send a chill through me.
Hebden, Tod and Mytholmroyd are to this day still lovely places. I remember the floods in 2020. Was a mess at the time but it all picked up pretty quick. Very interesting video though. Love hebden bridge especially. Like the guy in the gym says, the communities are amazing.
Thank you for this journey down the Calder valley where my family originates.
My parents moved around the start of WW2 to jobs in the outskirts of London.
My memories of Huddersfield and the surrounding area are of a community where people naturally look out for one another. So to hear the stories of this happening around the recovery from the flooding was no surprise.
Brilliant video. You have a real talent for documentary making.
Your videos are very interesting. Your style is very pure and naturally. A lot of people like that kind of documentary.
Fab video, as always. Such a positive thread throughout and a very positive ending. Community is everything 👍
There was a local guy who captured the floods after boxing day on a drone. It was the first time I saw a drone video, but it absolutely showed the devastation of the whole valley.
His video was shown all over the national news it was that good.
I love Calder Valley, and Happy Valley, but I'm lucky and glad to live on a hill in Illingworth.
On a side note, I used to work for Craig Whittaker before he was the MP
Excellent video. On a side note. Those flood sirens are just like our tornado sirens. My dog just ran to the closet thinking we needed to get in there! 😂
Oh my word! Those sirens are terrifying! Now, I was born along the banks of the "other" Calder flowing through Burnley from the same location as the Yorkshire Calder up on Heald Moor (as the Irwell!) and remember our fair share of flooding, but nothing on this scale or frequency although Padiham got a beating in Christmas 2015. Many of the old Victorian houses in the flood zone have been demolished allowing space for the water to spread and gradually soak away.
I'm so glad you touched on the ecological aspects of this as well. We have to start undoing the damage if we want our towns to prosper. Amazing video as always!
Or maybe don't build towns on floodplains.
@@tonycrayford3893 For many years there wasn't a problem. In the UK we've traditionally not built much on ancient floodplains, as experience shows they tend to flood. The interesting story here is why this area now floods badly when it didn't used to. There will be quite a few factors, the privileged "sport" of murdering birds for fun and having to damage the landscape to do so really isn't going to help, but there will also be other factors too such as building in stupid places or building over waterways preventing them from flowing as expected. Maybe building narrow culverts which only handle regular flow, but then get backed up causing more flooding. There could be so many local reasons why previously bad flooding didn't happen does now, and that's before climate change is taken into account.
@@nickryan3417 you had till the last sentence, climate change is a cycle. This planet should be completely encased in ice or no icecaps.
The councils change the name of the "Flood Plains" where people walked there dogs in meadows with long grass surrounding each town from the 60s on. They were called the "flood plains" for a reason. They delete that and then hope no one remembers. But because Cash is King and its an Animal Farm, they don't care about your house being wiped out like Titanic as they are fine in their own homes. That is why Moggy talks to "us" about GDP as if he is the UK. Corp accountant addressing shareholders; when people just want to know what to do when they are wiped out. See how the two systems are crashing into each other?
Its a screw you policy and everyday the same hands that cause these floods as a result, wake up even today and create damage every time they go to work. Dalek mantra. They will only "understand" when their own homes are wiped out. They built on flood plains and knew it. I am surprised the council isn't sued collectively but I suppose the fact they are now videoed and recorded is enough to stop anymore "wide boy" councils. Remember on the Titanic, the top deck do not care less about lifeboats for the ones on the lower deck and will even push each other off to save themselves. @@tonycrayford3893
Let us hope the bad management are out as there are some good ones who have some great bright ideas in action. @@tonycrayford3893
So funny The Wandering Ferret 😊, Another Extremely Interesting Vlog, Thank you for sharing
😀 thanks for watching
Great video as always, thank you Wandering :)
Thank you dude 👏👏👏
You're videos really do get better and better, David! I watched this one twice. Fascinating footage and interviews.. so professionally done, even though it's really sad how people suffer in the floods.. 😢
The drone footage is truly outstanding.. and you will deservedly be at 50K subs soon.. and way more! 👏
Thank you as always! Glad you like the drone stuff, I wasn’t sure how much to use but people seem to like it in my videos so will keep it going 👍👍
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I think the majority of your viewers appreciate the drone footage, David.. Seeing things from a different perspective, especially a bird's-eye view, elevates the visual experience and leaves such a lasting impression.. *It's mesmerising!* 👍👏
@@321bytor Wow! Just proves there's a first time for everything!
Many thanks for taking the time to post this valuable information regarding my inexplicable error.. 🤦🏻♀️
I sincerely hope we can all learn a little something extra from your fine tuition.. Where would the Internet be without great orthographizers like your good self?
I could persist in my praise, but fear that I bloviate rather too much as I approach senectitude! 😉
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Thank you 🙏 I thoroughly enjoyed this episode 🐨🐨🦘
Many thanks for posting this. We were flooded in 2015 (tod), the ground water rose and got us before the river couldn’t cope anymore and then flooded but more so. Grouse shooting, the building of more houses without an increase and investment in decent water management, failing water management at the time, and turning rivers into straight drains have all not helped. Ive never seen a canal flood let alone a river before, it was frightening and heartbreaking when it happened and i must admit that when it rains I am always watching the river.
Your videos are so interesting and informative, you have a very captivating storytelling style. Straight to the top of my favourite channels :)
Nice one for that Gary 👍😀😀
My friends Gig and Waka run the Golden Lion in Tod, and it was heartbreaking to see the floods devastate the pub. Testament to them and the people of the valley that pulled together to turn the hardship around.
Grouse shooting is awful. The damage it does to the land and wildlife, causing flooding, etc. I didn't know it gets subsidised by the government though it doesn't surprise me at all. Excellent video as usual.
You need to come and check out some of the Welsh valley towns. Especially the former mining ones. Depressing places with no prospecs, forgotten by the government, in need of substantial investments.
Hey mate, I’d love to chat to you more about some of these, could you email me on wanderingturnip2022@gmail.com if your up for a chat 👍👍
I absolutely love the mining valleys.
Such charm and potential.
Depressing places , yes, but still utterly beautiful.
Investment is needed for sure but the worry is ( to me) the wrong type of people suddenly discovering the charms of the valleys and driving local folks out .
That would be a shame .
Superb video - once again. You couldn't have timed this one much better, with this Storm Babet (bad enough down on tje south coast) and I guess we're about to find out if all that flood prevention work has had the intended effect. Best wishes to all around Calder Valley and other at risk areas over the next few days.
Thought: Surely there's a grant available for the poor grouse shooters to get themselves some waders? Keep thinking back to the upland bog restoration in the Plynlimon range, in the source reaches of the Severn. Amazing stuff, sphagnum moss.
Great work 👏🏻👏🏻
I was working at your highschool in Mytholmroyd when the river burst it's banks just before COVID lockdowns. I don't think they were the worst floods, but I saw first hand the chaos and destruction it was causing. But I also saw the way the town pulled together, it was inspiring!
Great video. Years ago I used to visit a school in Uckfield in East Sussex, a place also prone to devastating floods, for work as a specialist tutor. I woke up in the upstairs bedroom of the pub I was staying in (I had travelled from North Wales where I was based) to find the bar knee deep in water. It was not a happy day.
Great video, I worked that day 2015, Boxing Day, when the big flood happened. Tenterfields industrial estate Luddenden Foot which also got wiped out. Great big containers got picked up with flood smashing through fence. Still a good place to live, just need plenty of towels and mop and bucket. Also I'm glad someone's bought that house by the river, rather then it getting demolished. Could open up as a little museum of the local history.
We had crazy flooding in Connecticut New York border recently.The mold after is tragic.Home insurance companies drop them or crazy premiums.Propane tanks floating like torpedos, sewers failed,just gross.Looks like a beautiful little town I have to visit the UK Great content!
I was brought up in-between Tod and Hebden, I was at my dad's for Christmas in 2018 when the flooding happened. Luckily he now lives on the "half tops" near Harvelin Park so no issues of flooding but his offices are in the valley near Morrisons and got flooded. I spent hours on hours peeling loads of paperwork trying to dry it all out on the radiators whilst at the same time also directing family members coming for Christmas from all over the UK how to get to us as the only way in was to go a really long way round via Burnley (iirc). They've now left the bottom two draws of all the filing cabinets empty with breeze blocks in incase of any flooding so they don't float away. Aswell as tables and chairs with metal legs so they wouldn't get ruined in the event of a flood.
It's amazing seeing all the shops that bounced back and new places that have opened since. Only time until it happens again though!
Excellent video, WT, well researched! Thank you for highlighting this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Subscribed!. I live west of Calder Valley in Lancashire, and your videos are amazing. Loving the insights - both the physical geography of places as well as the history of people and places. Very infomative and I can sense the passion in your storytelling and the attachmment you have to these places. 👌
Brilliant video. The rewilding is particularly interesting and positive move.
I live in Ireland now, but lived in Luton all my life. Never experience floods from the River Lea. I guess valley landscapes will always be at risk. I used to visit Derbyshire and the Black Country a lot back in the day (girlfriend uni there). The UK has some beautiful spots, Matlock is one of my favorites, Hebden Bridge looks lovely. This is more uplifting than videos of ruined high streets lol...keep up the good work Ferret lol.
I went to calder high left in 2001, I remember there was a shop where you're stood at 6:48. You should look at Sowerby bridge too they get hit way harder than Tod ever has
Great video. This channel has really took off. Thr variety is excellent and always interesting. I subscribed after thr Blackpool boarded up video and was hooked from then sure you had 25,k subscribers then so well done on the numbers increasing! Looking forward to the next one
Superb video. I live in the Black Mountains in Wales and we have almost identical issues, particularly with the changes in agricultural land management and house building on a massive scale.
Wow! I remember seeing this on the news. It must be scary living by that amount of water that floods.
Not heard the flood siren since I was a child. Rushing home with my mum and staying upstairs watching the river rising. A neighbours garden used to flood as they were near a bend in the river.
I grew up living by the river Cray in Kent and it flooded a few times. Nothing on the scale you've all had.
Last time it was bad was in the 80's. I can remember the army filling up sandbags.
After helping clearing up when I was about 18 and going to a local pub in our wellies for drinks after the levels had dropped. Mad times! They did a few flood defences too. Its better than it was.
Really enjoyed that. Some of your best work yet I'd say. Congrats on your upcoming 50k!
Totally agree! 👍
Thank you so much 😀😀
Was near the home that you shown next to the river, there was workers in side there and looks like it was sold, im glad that someone has taken the risk to buy it, and hope its get sorted soon, i love the area, after living in Hebden Bridge for about a year, (i was raised in Halifax) lol. just love the valley in all. Great job has well dude. keep it up
Cheers “Wandering Ferret” 😂, another excellent informative video, really appreciate your work and look forward to more. All the best!
Thanks 😀
Was in hebden during the flood at Christmas. Waking up Boxing Day morning to military helicopters and the siren blaring was so bizarre. Then to hearing and then witness the water run down the high street. Just a crazy moment
You are such a clever man… your subject matter plus your passion really resonates with me… I lost my home to a flood… nothing like this… however I used it as a pivotal turning point in my life and relocated to another part of the country… please keep on doing what you do…. I have watched many of your videos this week and will continue to follow your work. … thank you for being you ❤
Very interesting, Mr Ferret! It seems like the most obvious way to alleviate the risk of flooding is to stop the grouse being shot, which would mean that the heather moors wouldn't get burned off to give a clique of rich gun nuts their kicks!
I agree!
The upland areas of moorland where the rivers begin as becks definitely need to be rewilded.
Grouse shooting is a very depleted way of maintaining wild landscape (in that it’s hardly wild, it’s simply maintained in a state of cutting burning and grazing to keep anything long term from rooting).
By and by, you need to stop the grouse shooting, convince those rich men who partake in grouse shooting to take up other activities that don’t involve depleting the countryside of permanent nature, replant these spaces with trees and begin reintroducing species that over the years have been wiped out from these more remote places. Namely the beaver. Beaver dams do a wonderful job at locking in pools of water, preventing heavy rain from directly washing the soil and ground off the uplands which prevents erosion, which on one hand creates habitats for other animals which can be prey for other animals and so what’s called a trophic cascade occurs, where one species being introduced has long lasting benefits on everything else that lives around it.
But the important thing about trees is that reforesting those uplands will act as a kind of natural sponge, the trees will just drink a great deal of it up, no trees, the rainwater runs right off the uplands and down into the valleys.
I often come up from the Midlands to hike around the Yorkshire moors, and when I’ve come to Ilkley Moor I often see signs everywhere with pictures detailing efforts to prevent too much water flowing off the moorlands, and warning people to not disturb the becks too much or let them run any easier, wherever you can create natural pools of water, nature will thank you.
I once explored the reaches of Coldstone Beck, and wherever little pools had formed, I found common toad spawn.
So it’s a complex issue, not just one of potentially improving drains like I’m seeing in these comments a lot, although in many places that is certainly the right thing to do as more people move into areas like the Calder Valley.
I recommend you watch or read whatever you can by George Monbiot. His writings on the benefits of rewilding places like the West Yorkshire Moors are very interesting and he’s specifically mentioned how grouse shooting has ruined these kinds of places
Loved this video. I moved to the Calder valley in summer 2016 whilst it was still recovering from the 2015 floods and this video has taken me right back to that time. It was such a great place to be - the feeling of resilience and recovery, the community. Amazing. I moved away four years later and I really miss living there.
your vids are getting better and better turnip, love them.
We lived next to the canal in Elland and the boxing day floods a few years back devastated us and the whole road (Park Rd). We swiftly moved out. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Loving the channel mate, keep up the good work 😁
You could use that gas mask in case you look around any more empty properties in Middlesbrough again! Great video as ever. Really like Hebden Bridge and Todmorden, nice part of the world.
My friend lives in Wigan in a new house and it's in a floodplain area ...she has been promised flood defences and five years later none have appeared...so far she has been lucky....however in my experience the easiest way to stop or control flooding would be raise the banks of canals and rivers ...but...environmentalists on the council will not allow this because it would disturb the ecology of the river banks !!...we need a reality check..
Except that levees just makes the flooding for the next town down the valley even worse. The water has to go somewhere, and now it's going faster and higher.
The obvious solution is to stop building on the flood plains, not to divert the floods away from the richer areas into poorer areas.
I grew up in Tod & played football many times on Calder High's pitches which you showed. Tod Grammar's pitch was also right by the river at Stoneyroyd, & in my last year we had to play all our games away from home as the pitch was permanently waterlogged. I seem to recall that following the 2015 floods a number of buildings in Mytholmroyd had to be demolished as the river had washed away the foundations.
Really enjoyed this one, just echoing the note below. and congratulating you on your eloquent story telling skills. I know the area and the local history quite well and enjoyed and your commentary. Wishing you every success in your future endeavours.
Yet another brilliant video! I understand more about the area watching this than I ever have watching main stream television. You`ve done The Calder Valley proud! Nearly 50k subscribers, well deserved. (100k next year.) Hope for all our sakes you don`t get tempted away from UA-cam. Wishing you the very best as always.
Thanks so much as always. I really appreciate it. I’ll be on UA-cam as long as people keep enjoying my content 😀😀 nice comments like this spur me on 👏😀
Cheap house ✅
Pub ✅
Market ✅
Research & facts ✅
Talking to people ✅
Bonus chimney shot ✅
Got it all in this one!
Fantastic video. The fact that the surrounding land is being managed for grouse shooting, with the help of public money, is so deeply wrong.
Its absolutely disgusting.
My home town of Chesterfield was flooded in June 2007 no lives were lost but the damage was huge lots of mud and sewage left behind that took weeks to remove. Sheffield was also flooded in 2007 but two people lost their lives unfortunately. Matlock has flooded quite a few times the last been in 2019 leaving the main shopping area devastated after this flood Wetherspoons closed their pub ' The Crown ' permanently due to cost of the repairs. As the climate changes and sea levels rise expect more floods and also coastal areas will be hit hard.
I didn't think after leaving this comment that history would repeat itself. Chesterfield and Sheffield have been hit again with bad flooding this time it has been worse. Please do not come to Chesterfield most of the roads are underwater many people in the Brampton area have been evacuated lucky no one has been hurt or worse. Stay aware and keep safe.
Another excellent video Swede, I hope those flood defenses work and that no one ever gets to hear those frightening sirens . Cheers Millysue
Love your endearing name for Turnip, Millysue.. but can you believe someone called him the Wandering _FERRET!_ Now that will never do! 🤣😂🙋🏻♀️
Great video, very informative and some great shots of northern England :)
We have a saying down here in Australia. “Don’t build on a floodplain then complain that your home washes away”. This is the English version I expect.
I love this guys passion.
I grew up over the hill in Littleborough but spent a lot of time in Tod and Hebden. So very familiar with the floods. 2015 probably the worst I can remember. I'm amazed anyone takes the risk buying a house riverside or starting a business in these places. Insurance must be astronomical and you're more or less guaranteed to have a flood every year or two.
Just incredible, what a very resilient place thats been through so much. Great interviews and incredible content! Good job 👍
This is a great channel. Love the variety of topics covered. I feel the need for some wandering turnip t shirts.
Yeah I’m try to keep it varied as possible, keep it more enjoyable for everyone and for me making stuff 😂
Thanks for watching mate 👍👍
I would definitely buy Turnip merch
I remember this watching a car being washed away passed the CoOp. The following year we came down Hebden Bridge and spent the day there trying to put a bit back in the community, pubs, cafes shops etc...love the town , top vid that David👍
The UK has four major weather fronts, any combo of which can bring rain. Add to that the human need to live near water, rivers especially to transport goods (till the ind. revolution). Rivers find the lowest point, we followed and built our towns.
We may have valleys flood annually, ruining homes and belongings (been effected twice personally, run off in both locations), but they pale in comparison to other regular natural disasters in other regions of the world, thankfully for us.
Great vid as always Ferret, and thanks to your storytellers!
this might get worse over time with more rain and silly weather patterns I give up watching the media on tv now just watch these and documentaries now my condition gets worse with the weather wont be good
Exactly! We moan about the weather but we don’t get earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes etc. but we get unpredictable weather. Friends of mine from other countries now realise why we talk about the weather, one of them said it’s the only place where you can get frostbite in the morning, sunburnt in the afternoon, then torrential downpour at teatime
Bu bu bu but global warming climate change 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 sorry commonsense don't live in a flood zone 😂😂
Even from America I am astonished by your valley floods! In 2012 (in June!?) we were visiting family in Great Harwood and went to see a cousin living in Halifax at the time and the Calder was crazy! Then got back and the neighbor was talking about her daughter's house getting flooded near Preston from the Ribble. Here in the PNW of America June is a gentle time and we would never get floods like that. But at the same time it was still impressive enough I remember it as the highlight of that trip!!
Excellent video mate 👏
Well done for sharing this story mate 👍🏻
Am from north 1960
We alway on the same page
Love your Outspoken views and opinions
And your knowledge
True facts always
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England need people like you always ❤
I watch your videos from Australia. They are interesting, informative and entertaining . Thank you very much. You are a talented presenter.
Hebdon bridge is such a lovely hippy community. The hebdon bridge festival when I was a kid was like a mini Glastonbury. The floods come and the community always bands together and fixes it. It's true pure hippy love and human spirit and it's a lovely place to live. If a bit wet at times :)
Excellent video. Love following the slow flow project.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video, and a lovely surprise to see Ed!
Brilliant explaination Dave of the flooding.Park Road in Elland got flooded badly too in 2015 and the community spirit was outsounding.Brighouse was also hit and i believe Mirfield too.
Mirfield was also badly flooded in 2020, I lived in Ledgard Wharf Bridge Mill then. The mill hadn't flooded while it was flats before. In 2020 maybe an inch or two entered the building and the flats.
I used to see property with a stream running through the garden or near a river and think it was wonderful. But now I’m immensely thankful, that I’m nowhere near a waterway and living 350m above the nearest part of the local river.
One of the things I increasingly see. Are new housing being built on old flood plains and new houses being built, where the nearest old road, is named Water Meadow or Riverbank Way. And such housing, is typically wood framed with a brick facade. Throwaway housing when the next flood hits that area.
This is the problem that arises when you build houses next to rivers and then the infrastructure is neglected.
In the village where my parents have lived for over 40 years there was a small plot of vacant scrubland that was alongside the bank of the small river that flows through the village.
The land had been vacant for many years until a few years ago when someone bought the land and built a house on it that barely fitted onto the land available.
During the house's construction, as warmer weather started to return, the snow and ice on the nearby hills thawed and the water entered the river and obviously then made its way downstream through the village then out the other side of the village the few miles to where it empties into a bigger river.
That house was flooded twice during it's construction alone.
Despite the authorities knowing that existing houses along the river had been flooded many times in their history, they still allowed someone to build a new house on the only plot of vacant land alongside the river bank.
If the person had done their research, they could have built the house to be flood resilient.
So build the utility area on ground floor ….garage etc , entrance hall and perhaps a store room .
Then next floor up kitchen , living space etc.
So when floods hit, you have minimised the losses
Great vlog, loved hearing the stories of the people that were affected.
Wandering ferret, LOL. Thanks for that, what a wonderful but sad and inspiring story. Your story telling is awesome. I have started watching a New Zealand vlogger after seeing your wonderful wanderings.
I live in Kendal and there used to be a flood siren for when the river Kent was flooding, I remember hearing it going off when I was a kid. Cant remember when but the siren stopped being used, it could of been useful when we were hit by storm Desmond. That was truly epic amounts of rain and flooding - I saw places under water I never though could flood, and rivers running down all the hillsides where not even steams run normally as there was just so much water everywhere. There's now loads of work being done on flood prevention measures in town, and there's more work to be done upstream to mitigate future flood events. I'm not sure any level of flood prevention from walls or flood plains could of stopped the damage from Desmond as it had been raining constantly for months and every bit of ground was sodden with no more ability to absorb water so the rain just ran straight off, then the almost biblical amount of water from the storm hit with the inevitable consequences.
Really well done with this video. I do wonder about the timing of the onset of these extreme floods, and when the water resouces started being manipulated by the corporations, and reservoirs/dams being built... besides the issue you raised concerning the burning off of the natural "sponge", which should most definitely be outlawed....
One of the best videos I have watched on UA-cam.. so interesting and you are so engaging in your commentary..
Brilliant thanks for sharing this 😀 👍
So nice of you. Thanks for watching 😀😀
One problem is in the past the houses would probably be stone floor, possibly not even plastered with few soft furnishings. My grandfather lived in a house which we shared for a time in what would be now counted now as a slum. The kitchen had stone everything with a basin, mangle and wash tub and was dank even never having been flooded. If it was flooded and drained I am not sure we would have noticed any difference in it. We filled a tin tub in the living room for a bath, a living room pretty devoid of much that a flood would damage. I wonder if part of the problem is in living the modern luxurious every mod con and convenience life in a building sited in a river valley which was never really designed for this in a different age. The toilet was at the bottom of the garden so no chance of overflowing in to the house.
I was thinking: if the prices of housing are as will as we are led to understand, forking out $70 000 for the flooded house might not be as insane as it seemed at first:
- You already have a developed and leveled out property so you don't need to do that work on your plot.
- You could tear down the house that was sitting there and build a new one, but built to mitigate the flooding problem. You could build a garage or something on the ground floor, and might even want to use parts of the foundation from the old house. Just build the garage so water can flow away from it. And then you stick your living quarters up in the second and third floor.
- If the prices stay as high you could sell the house when you felt like it and get money back.
Good idea but wong happen, planning laws in the uk mean they prob wont let you knock any of them stone homes down, or builda house on stilts as a new home wont fit the charecter of the area, its very hard to knock any thing old down in the uk..
@@TCJones yeah, that makes sense. I mean, I can't be the first to thought like that about how to make something good from the bad...
Sadly it would change the character of the place….
Great presentation. Thank you for your good energy.
ahhh the best channel walking with turnip :D
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As a retired roofing specialist company that roof looks to have been refelted going on what you can see inside,
Walls can easily be stiched up (repaired) that job really is easy,
Then a simple case of pulling all ceilings down and hacking all new or old plaster and cement,
All electrical cables removed back to fuse board and all plumbing removed,
Check timbers and floors to see the damage and what can be left in place
Then you get a dehumidifier in and leave it running for serval months checking and emptying water tank in dehumidifier,
Hopefully roof is good on the outside and guttering along with drains are all unblocked and usable,
Try not to save penny's as it will end up costing pounds,
As a retired roofing specialists for pitch roofs and flat roofs a roofers job is about water and how to make a roof leak proof and last a long time,
A pitch tile or slate roof should easily last 25 to.50 years dependent on roof quality materials and weather conditions,
Flat roof carry 10 year guarantee but again if done correctly should last 20 years providing no one is walking constantly on flat roof then it requires promenade cape roofing tiles for flat roofs but those roofs tend only to last 10 years with torchon flat roof method.
All flat roofs used to be roll and pour with heating bitumen up.in large pot and scoop out bitumen into steel bucket and carried up to flat roof obviously still very very hot
Then pour bitumen and roll 1 ply talc roofing felt 3 layers or whatever the planners required lol,
They don't use roll and pour (hot bitumen) anymore
But to someone like me the house is simple to do.but to living standards,
You can't predict weather,
On saying that think about the people who live in tornado alley,
Like I say my fight as a Roofing Specialist was against water ,
You can have certain kinds of winds when raining it pushers raining backwards underneath roof tiles and slates , pin tiles and roof valleys
Those leaks where once every 10 years again due to certain weather conditions
Hence much like where you live in video,
The other issue we face is too much concrete used and no natural water run off areas, and drains block or old and no longer suitable anymore,
You will always get flooding and high winds thats nature
Another thing that causes floods is when till sides are completely stripped of old trees ,
You will be surprised how a Hills with lots of trees stops flooding, obviously certain torrential rain and nothing will stop that,
Apologies for my long wind bag comment,
I enjoy you videos mate.
Excellent stuff. Thanks for the video
Great video, great work & nicely executed 😊
Brilliant documentary!! You have great talent
Brilliant video a real gem - keep up the excellent work.
Really interesting video today, well they all are but this one was informative in learning about the effects of a natural disaster on a community.
I can relate because I live in Christchurch in NZ where we had a series of devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. The landscape of our city has changed forever with most of the old buildings (not old in an English sense as Europeans settlement here was in the 1850’s) in the city centre being destroyed because they fell to bits or had to be demolished because they were unsafe or owners could afford to repair them to code. The city now has a modern quite sterile look in my opinion but others love it, but the rebuild is still happening. Whole suburbs were condemned and demolished and now are green spaces which devastated communities at the time. The stress of aftershocks for 2 years was hard on many, and 30,000 people fled the city initially right after the quakes.
Natural disasters are really hard on the people they affect and the recovery can be long. Flooding can be mitigated in some areas by careful planning and remediation, we have that problem in parts of NZ too, but you never know when the earth will do it’s thing down here in the Shakey Isles.