Flooding

Welcome to the 'Flooding' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Flooding'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Flooding”

• Flooded Cockermouth will get new health centre

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Floods knocked out two of the towns three GPs surgeries, but a new health centre will be based at the cottage hospital – 150ft above river level When Cockermouths filthy floodwater is a thing of the past, the battered town can expect one lasting benefit. Thanks to fast work by the local GPs, and a huge ...
  2 hours ago

• Video: Flood victims return home

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  As residents prepare to re-enter homes and businesses, Chris Thomond meets some of Cockermouths flood victims Christopher Thomond Shehani Fernando
  5 hours ago

• Cumbria prepares for more flooding

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Environment Agency warns of further heavy rainfall as locals begin to pick their way back into sodden houses Cumbria is bracing itself for further flooding as the Environment Agency warns of further heavy rainfall in the county. Up to 100mm (3.9in) of rain is expected across the Cumbrian fells, creating the ...
  8 hours ago

• How local papers stepped up in Cumbria

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Papers step up efforts amid dire weather - and pledge: Well still be here when everybody goes home Local newspapers in Cumbria have gone to extra lengths to provide essential information and coverage of the floods that have brought havoc to the region in recent days. The Times & Star , the weekly paper serving ...
  9 hours ago

• How safe are Britains bridges?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Following the collapse of six bridges in Cumbria, how worried should we be about the strength of others spanning our rivers? When Workingtons Northside bridge, the Victorian stone structure that used to span the River Derwent in Cumbria, had its routine check in July last year, no reason was found to suppose it ...
  17 hours ago

• Cumbria floods: Unpredictable but not unforeseeable

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  Even at the best of times, it is hard to predict the future. To forecast an unprecedented flood is harder still, and to protect effectively against such a flood hardest of all. Yet the serious flood damage in Cockermouth and other parts of Cumbria over the past few days ought nevertheless to be a wake-up call to ...
  17 hours ago

• Meanwhile, across the pond…….

  
  Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed — Authority: 579
  ….in England, one of the people I met while working on a story about storm chase tours several years ago alerted me that the United Kingdom last week recorded its heaviest rainfall ever recorded in a 24-hour period. Martin Ferris wrote that Seathwaite in the Lake District of northern England recorded 314.4 ...
  19 hours ago

• USA Today caught off-balance by MRGO decision

  
  slabbed — Authority: 478
  Not only is Rick Jervis hoping that the readers will swallow his own seed of the Corps Costs Estimates of 100’s of Billions for their side of the work, he is offering the erroneous proposition that the Corps is the Lead in the solution to the Wetlands Restoration activity –this prophylactic misnomer stretches so ...
  20 hours ago

• Interactive: Flooding in Cumbria

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The north-west county faces further chaos as forecasters warn of more rain, as towns struggle to return to normality in the aftermath of huge floods in the region Christine Oliver
  1 day ago

• Video: Cockermouth flood victims allowed home

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Cockermouth flood victims allowed back into their homes and businesses as the authorities warn of long-term damage
  1 day ago

• SEPA Flood Watch remains for Argyll Rivers & Loch Lomond

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  As of 23rd November 2009 at 11:03 am a FLOOD WATCH in in place for Argyll rivers and Loch Lomond. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) says: ‘A period of further rainfall is forecast for this area today and heavy rainfall is forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday and given that the river and loch levels ...
  1 day ago

• How to deal with flooding

  
  Moneywise - your money, your life — Authority: 136
  Flood claims from households in Cumbria, south Scotland and other areas in the North West could exceed £100 million. read more
  1 day ago

• Cumbria surveys flood damage

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Thousands of homes and businesses cut off, while receding waters in Cockermouth reveal devastation Cumbria is facing up to the aftermath of the most severe flooding in its history, with thousands affected by the devastation. Many homes and businesses remain cut off in the county and several schools are shut. Six ...
  1 day ago

• UK flooding and extreme weather - live blog

  
  News: News blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 133
  Rescue teams have resumed the search for a missing woman in Wales while concern grows for marooned communities in Cumbria as an urgent inspection of the countys bridges gets underway and more rain is forecast. Follow live updates 9.41am: A charitalbe fund has been set up to help Cumbria recover from the floods. ...
  1 day ago

• Floods in Cumbria: soldiers drafted in as more rain threatens to bring misery

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  As two more people die and a third is missing with rain threatening to bring further misery to floodhit areas soldiers are brought in to help the emergency services cope.
  1 day ago

• Martin Wainwright in Cockermouth on flood devastation

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Martin Wainwright in Cockermouth on flood devastation Martin Wainwright
  1 day ago

• 23.11.09: Martin Rowson on Britains floods

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Hundreds of police, soldiers and volunteers were in action along Britains western seaboard Martin Rowson
  1 day ago

• Flooding claims second victim as emergency supplies sent in

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Canoeist dies and woman is swept away by river • Checks on 1,800 Cumbria bridges after six collapse Torrential downpours claimed a second victim today in Devon as emergency medical supplies and food parcels were sent to communities marooned by floods in Cumbria, and rescue teams searched the swollen river Usk ...
  1 day ago

• Cumbria’s flooding brings back memories

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 139
  Flooding has a devastating effect on peoples lives. This I remember from the flooding caused by Lightwater’s thunderstorm of 2006 , and also the floods of 2007. A badly flooded home needs six months to a year to recover, and sometimes longer. Even then home owners can be troubled by every thunderstorm ...
  1 day ago

• ABI warns floods could cost up to £100m

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Flood claims in Cumbria and Scotland could cost the insurance industry up to £100m the Association of British Insurers has warned.
  1 day ago

Comments about Flooding