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34 minutes ago, MikeR said:

why does this country always flood at the first sign of a any old  storm ?

I do wonder if we would need waders and gills after a really proper prolonged bashing off the heavens .

gate shut horse gone the after type maintenance regime ?????

I don't know what area you're in, but where I lived previously it was usually because of undredged rivers, overgrown ditches and the like. Or, if you wish to be cynical, a short-sighted attempt to save a few quid by the council. 

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2 hours ago, Waderider said:

Tetleysmooth, if you parked in a disabled space without the badge you're in the wrong. It's black and white, no one is picking on you.

My mother in law is in a wheelchair and every day peoples thoughtless actions make her, and her carers life a little difficult. It doesn't sound like you where really impacting on the Fiesta driver directly, but the poor man shall be worn down from being a carer in a society that neither cares or makes an effort to accommodate him.

There’s a difference between parking in a disabled space and parking in an almost empty car park while you sit in your car 

the bloke was being a twat , deliberately making his life difficult so he could moan about it , why else would he not park in the next space and make his life easy.

 

I’ve  never parked in a disabled space in my life but stopping in an empty car park for 10 minutes while I’m sat in the car , I don’t see a problem with that 

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4 minutes ago, Wack said:

There’s a difference between parking in a disabled space and parking in an almost empty car park while you sit in your car 

 

 

I’ve  never parked in a disabled space in my life but stopping in an empty car park for 10 minutes while I’m sat in the car , I don’t see a problem with that 

Ask Arnold.

https://www.arnoldclark.com/newsroom/074-is-it-ever-ok-to-park-in-a-disabled-parking-space#:~:text=To be allowed to park,to avoid certain parking exemptions.

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Jesus no one got hurt, let Tetley man have his rant.

Anyway my slight gripe:

I walk doggo through a small village, and have noticed for a few months a lovely classic that has been left in a random road, so I kind of make a point of going that way just to see how it is.

Todays visit shows someone has popped the passenger window, Why !?.

It'll be taken for scrap soon no doubt, sad really. And no its not a LDV with curtains / Escort Cosworth etc  

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36 minutes ago, Rab said:

First Rule of AS. Be honest and express an opinion.

Second Rule of AS. Expect to be routinely condemned and bullied for the first rule.

I joined a motorhome forum , fuck me they know how to moan , once you get past retirement it all turns to shit so they just moan about everything 

Within a week I had 4 on the ignore list , that's more than I've ever had on every forum I'm on since the dawn of the internet 

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3 hours ago, Amishtat said:

I don't know what area you're in, but where I lived previously it was usually because of undredged rivers, overgrown ditches and the like. Or, if you wish to be cynical, a short-sighted attempt to save a few quid by the council. 

As someone who works in flood risk management you may be interested to know that the responsibility for maintaining watercourses rests with the riparian owner. This would only be the council where they own the land through which the watercourses runs. If you own land on one side you are responsible for it up to the middle. Maintenance should only be done outside such periods where it will not affect fish spawning/bird nesting/etc. (No it doesn't leave much time)

Any drainage system will have a maximum capacity, once that is exceeded you will get flooding. 

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27 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

Any drainage system will have a maximum capacity, once that is exceeded you will get flooding. 

Yes, this. And as areas get more built-up, older drainage systems become quickly overwhelmed.

Round here there's been a trend for older houses with large gardens being bought up by developers, and bulldozed to build forty-odd shoebox apartments plus carpark.

But the developer rarely does much to upgrade the drainage system where it leaves the development, so there's inevitably massively more waste water trying to enter the sewerage network than previously - so the pipes are permanently carrying more than the estimated baseline flow (also those sodding wet wipes that clog everything).

Also, if you consider the amount of rainfall that previously would have been soaked up by lawns and gravel drives but now runs straight off the tarmac down the drain, it doesn't take much of a cloudburst to suddenly push the drain system way beyond capacity in a matter of minutes.

One solution is installing proper storm drains, as other countries do, but that would be very expensive and extremely disruptive. At the minute, it's easier (cheaper) for water companies to deal with local flooding as and when, than invest properly in infrastructure and rebuild the network from scratch to deal with the ever-increasing pressure on the waste network.

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10 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Yes, this. And as areas get more built-up, older drainage systems become quickly overwhelmed.

Round here there's been a trend for older houses with large gardens being bought up by developers, and bulldozed to build forty-odd shoebox apartments plus carpark.

But the developer rarely does much to upgrade the drainage system where it leaves the development, so there's inevitably massively more waste water trying to enter the sewerage network than previously - so the pipes are permanently carrying more than the estimated baseline flow (also those sodding wet wipes that clog everything).

Also, if you consider the amount of rainfall that previously would have been soaked up by lawns and gravel drives but now runs straight off the tarmac down the drain, it doesn't take much of a cloudburst to suddenly push the drain system way beyond capacity in a matter of minutes.

One solution is installing proper storm drains, as other countries do, but that would be very expensive and extremely disruptive. At the minute, it's easier (cheaper) for water companies to deal with local flooding as and when, than invest properly in infrastructure and rebuild the network from scratch to deal with the ever-increasing pressure on the waste network.

This was the Thames near northmoor lock yesterday, not as bad as last year Im told.

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8 hours ago, Mally said:

Obviously you won't read this either. It is long winded, but relevant.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5742871/parked-in-hospital-disabled-bay

It's not relevant as he didn't get charged. This is the grumpy thread; perhaps you've misunderstood the point of it? The meta-grumpy thread has not yet been created, perhaps you should start one?

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I seem to have some sort of magic touch that means I break anything I lay my hands on. I don’t have a lot of experience working on cars, but I’ve been trying to teach myself. It’s just so disheartening to repeatedly spend hours out in the cold trying to fix something, only for it to end up more broken than it was when you’ve started. This feels like the case whenever I do any ‘repairs’ on my cars.

It’s mighty tempting to sack it all off and get a Yaris or something on PCP like the rest of the world does.

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13 hours ago, Mr Laurence said:

I seem to have some sort of magic touch that means I break anything I lay my hands on. I don’t have a lot of experience working on cars, but I’ve been trying to teach myself. It’s just so disheartening to repeatedly spend hours out in the cold trying to fix something, only for it to end up more broken than it was when you’ve started. This feels like the case whenever I do any ‘repairs’ on my cars.

It’s mighty tempting to sack it all off and get a Yaris or something on PCP like the rest of the world does.

Or just farm the job out and accept that work low cost cars there's a certain amount you can spend keeping it worthy of daily driving.

You have to do a lot of repairs to even come anywhere near the monthly PCP cost! Like a full ongoing restoration or something daft like that.

I'm exactly the same, I thought I could learn mechanicing but I'm just not made from the right stuff. I'll try to do the basics but I'm very easy to give up and take it to the garage.

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21 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

Or just farm the job out and accept that work low cost cars there's a certain amount you can spend keeping it worthy of daily driving.

You have to do a lot of repairs to even come anywhere near the monthly PCP cost! Like a full ongoing restoration or something daft like that.

I'm exactly the same, I thought I could learn mechanicing but I'm just not made from the right stuff. I'll try to do the basics but I'm very easy to give up and take it to the garage.

Cars with carburettors  - I  can tinker all day.
Cars with computers and explosives in the panel work? Not so much.
Cars with computers and explosives in the panel work, and lovingly modified at great expense  for driving without foot pedals?
Well bless my beloved government, they will have it repaired for me and supply taxis as a courtesy car.

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2 hours ago, sierraman said:

For fuck sake it’s snowing. Cue a load of people now treating it like some sort of national holiday. Or people in faux 4x4s out to demonstrate how great a Ford Kuga is on summer tyres  in the snow. 

200 dead in Canada

 

They died of laughter

 

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2 hours ago, sierraman said:

For fuck sake it’s snowing. Cue a load of people now treating it like some sort of national holiday. Or people in faux 4x4s out to demonstrate how great a Ford Kuga is on summer tyres  in the snow. 

Don't,  I know somone who specifically bought  a discovery 2 (before he had even passed his test!) because he had a slight hill in the medium sized  Buckinghamshire town he lived in.

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33 minutes ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

Don't,  I know somone who specifically bought  a discovery 2 (before he had even passed his test!) because he had a slight hill in the medium sized  Buckinghamshire town he lived in.

I've seen a few that don't understand physics , 4WD might get you moving but it doesn't help you stop

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