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Guernsey Press:
In Friday's Press:
* Territorial Army: Centenary feature
* Safety Last: new score for classic
* Bailiwick: news from the other islands
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In Friday's Press:
* Territorial Army: Centenary feature
* Safety Last: new score for classic
* Bailiwick: news from the other islands
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I live at Les Pecqueries Coast Road and this morning our front and back gardens were flooded and we were close to having our homes flooded by the sea. The police were called to ask for the road to be shut but as they were so busy. Cars were driving through and causing waves which were putting our homes at risk. We blocked the road at one end with a van and we stood at the other end asking drivers not to go through (the police knew we were going to do this)but still drivers drove through edging passed the van that had been parked across the road to stop them, even though we were asking them not to. One guy after being asked not to drive through just put his foot down and went through, another one after being explained the situation said he did not care and drove through anyway. we were being sworn at and laught at. One lady even told a neighbour that she hoped his house gets flooded and he looses all his belongings.
Please could the Guernsey Press run an extended series of articles to find out what plans our
politicians are making to protect us from rising sea levels. The consensus of scientific opinion
suggest significant rises are to be expected, as are a greater frequency of extreme weather events.
One of the primary duties of any government, is to protect the lives and property of its citizens.
Re:National Newspapers
Although the aircraft carrying the national newspapers arrived in Guernsey at 12:35 today, due to the high winds it was not able to be offloaded. No national newpapers have been distributed today, Monday 10th March.
Why do so many people complain when their properties get flooded
Nobody pointed a gun a their heads when they chose to live next to the sea. It is not the governments responsibility to bail out an individuals shortsightedness
If you chose to live next to the sea your property will get flooded at some time fact!
The sea has been there longer than your house
Given the photographic evidence we have seen today, do the States still need to spend £33,000 commissioning a report to determine whether or not to reinforce sea defences ???
I sincerely hope that Bosq Lane is not underwater as my daughter Meg can’t swim very well.
Record floods in England last year, droughts and water shortages in Spain, unseasonally warm winters, brown bears not hibernating over winter in the Pyrenees, record droughts in Australia, record flooding in Asia, record numbers of hurricanes…this sceptic is becoming a believer.
What is our government doing about all of this?
What a ridiculous, petty and short-sighted comment by ‘dry upper parishes’. If the wind blew the roof off your house, would you refrain from complaint on the grounds that the wind was here before your house? Or do you live in a States House in which case you wouldn’t care anyway, because it would be somebody else’s problem I suppose you also withhold sympathy for starving Africans on the grounds that ‘nobody pointed a gun to their head’ and forced them to live there. I tell you what, why don’t you condemn all the misfortunes of the whole of humanity while you are at it. Let’s just hope that you never require anybody’s sympathy or support when the world falls on your pathetic little head.
I live at about sea level and I chose to live there. My concern is the lack of prediction and forewarning that a combination of low pressure (known to be coming), high winds (known to be coming) and high spring tides (known to be coming) would create “freak” conditions or Guernsey’s version of “The Perfect Storm”. Where were the warnings that this could be far more severe than normal and that property owners should protect their properties from flooding. Hindsight is 20:20 as they say but do we not pay someone to predict these events> ?
I don’t think the States need to spend the £33,000 on the report. Instead put it towards the 7 figure sum it’s probably going to cost Guernsey to repair the sea wall damage from this storm! Are we insured?
Finally, a very brave pilot landed his plane in horrendous winds so that someone on the ground could deem it too dangerous to unload it. That pilot deserves a medal!
Having seen my village in Yorkshire very badly flooded (nearly my own home), I can sympathise with everyone on the island who has been affected. When our village flooded it was without warning and very sudden. I understand how the Coast Resident feels when they say about blocking the road off…I spent six Hours at a roundabout in the worst rain I have ever seen trying to stop cars from going through our village (A164 is a major road) and they listened.
The rest of the night was spent sandbagging properties at risk, as well as helping hose who had been flooded out.
Instead of everyone falling out over where they choose to live why cant you all pull together and do the best that you possibly can to help correct this terrible event. I know the island well, and, this sort of attitude is not one that I would ever have thought possible from you islanders, it is better saved for those on the mainland…
Good luck with the clean up and I hope you all get sorted soon….
To answer “low lying resident” do you not read or listen to local media? Since Friday morning the Guernsey Met office were warning of this hence the FLOOD warnings (clue in the name) that have been issued all weekend long. If you choose to ignore it then who’s fault is that.
Why must you all persist in arguements?
For-get what people did and did not hear. Learn from it, work with each other and act on it…..
I am Working in Turkey at the moment and, yes I heard the warnings, but, just how many times have we had these warnings before, just to find that they dont really even come to anything?…..
Guernsey is my most favoured place in the UK, I love everything about it, so please HIGH AND DRY, stop rubbing peoples noses in the fact that they are at a higher risk than you!
And as you are all so brave to state the obvious time and again, why cant you be brave enough to put your real names to the threads?
The boys (pete de B, Phil taylor and me) have several solutions to all this rising of the sea level. 1. get the kids to dig lots of holes in the sand- we’ve all seen how buckets of water just drain away 2. stop everyone from peeing in the sea 3. bring back knitted swimsuits. . Then when you get home wring them out in the garden.
High & Dry is entirely correct. We had COUNTLESS warnings for 72 hours prior to the gales, both on the radio and on the news, in which we were advised to secure everything possible against the coming winds. Of course I am not condeming anybody for living near the sea - people can live wherever they like, but to say we weren’t warned is frankly incorrect. By the way, pls can Simon Harris stop boring everyone with tedious irrelevant drivel about where he’s been and what he’s done. Thanks
And by the way, Guernsey is not part of the UK…
While the UK government hands money to the Islands it is still part of the UK….
Thanks
Disasters are times when people come together you see it happen all over the world.Its all this money that devides people and make people pick on each other.If the finance world was not in guernsey people will be on pushbikes and be out there helping where they can and rebuilding the sea defences them selfs and buzzing out on helping each other.Ive got some of the best freinds in the world in guernsey and all this finance lark is killing people souls please guernsey keep it real and come together.See you soon jamie chatterton in newzealand.
My sympathies to all those affected by the storms,whether they live high or low!But you know,the sea defences in view of the changing climate are going to HAVE to be brought up to date,I don’t think the individual householder has much chance to protect his own property,and many more events like this are going to make it practically impossible to insure your home if you live in exposed places.
Finally I’d like to second Simons remark,if you post here then it would be nice to know WHO you are.