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You could say it serves them right (rich people) for building in a flood plain - it's normally the newer less nice areas that get flooded in the UK - as in the
by lostboys67 9y ago
You could say it serves them right (rich people) for building in a flood plain - it's normally the newer less nice areas that get flooded in the UK - as in the past they where considered to risky
- jasonmaydie 9y agotechnically every location can become a flooding plane if you build a man-made dam in that geographic location
- freeloop3 9y agotechnically not true because there needs to be water to dam for the plane to be flooded.
- Dirlewanger 9y agoSeriously. I know one generally shouldn't blame victims, but it is their fault in this case. Humanity's hubris needs to be checked every once in a while. I hope the federal government prevails (though admittedly it doesn't look good for them).
- an_account 9y agoOne thing not mentioned in this article is that there has been a lot of new housing development inside of the reservoir (upstream). So they had to start releasing water earlier because they couldn’t let it fill up as much as originally planned when the reservoir was built.