..... has me thinking has anybody here been affected (if they can get to a computer!) or knows of somebody in trouble?   I'm always looking for the animals in these rescue pictures.  Yes you see the occasional dog and smaller pets in cages on the boats, but not that many.   Heartbreaking!  And as for the livestock being swept away........

What with this flooding, and bush fires in Australia, tornados in America - Planet Earth is in trouble RIGHT NOW.

I am hoping that as they had warning that flooding was likely they would have made arrangements for livestock to be put on higher ground, cats kept indoors and with dogs moved to upstairs, or taken with them if they have been forced to leave their homes. I dread to think that any heartless person would leave animals to fend for themselves.

At least with the warnings they hopefully were able to prepare for their animals care. With sudden disasters like bush fires, tornados etc then my stomach churns for the animals caught up in the situation, I think I would go out of my mind trying to keep all the dear little creatures safe.

I have been banging on for years about global warming and climate change. My classes were always receptive and could see what was happening from the evidence presented. From adults....... a wall of disbelief, denial and reluctance to accept the facts. Sadly I think it takes events such as are happening to convince people. I just hope it's not too late.

yes i am thinking same about pets and livestock
worried about samual smith brewery shire horses in tadcaster york really hope shires .harness .drays are safe and been moved to saftey
the shires are based in stables behind pub
its heartbreaking watching lances and yorkshire.cumbria all damage to floods etc such beatful areas under water
all u can say WHY has it happend ...............
heartbreaking .......

watching sky news breaking news at bottom of screen 4 people died in torrendos in dalles usa

Sorry I have no wish to open a can of worms, but I am not sure about global warming, I have yet to be convinced.

Weather has trends that seem to last a very long time. I can remember when I was a kid many many years ago floods that reached us in Hertfordshire, we lived in a reasonably high spot and still had 3ft water. I can remember the family all moving upstairs and living in the bedrooms, my mum and dads bedroom was the day room and we all slept in my bedroom. No mention of global warning in those days, it was just a case of 'damned weather'  This was not in the dales and vales, but just outside of Watford.

Yes I agree we should all take care of the environment and do our best to keep clean air etc, but too much is being blamed onto global warming. If we have a bad winter, (as a few years ago when I was living in a mobile home while building work was being done,) we had very deep snow and everyone was saying that we were going to have another ice age.

I sometimes think that scientists are too clever looking into reasons for this and that, maybe we should do our best environmentally and then sit and wait for the next trend of weather.

thats us ie scotland got another sever weather warning for rain and winds
we have had 2 months of weather warning heavy rain and gales today is first day in month we have had dry sunny day
usaly we have ice snow etc but this year winter so mild heavy rain high winds
spring bulbs are up and sprouting which has never happend in my life time
something weird is going on with weather
samual smith brewary horses are flooded newsman was standing outside pub the horses are based at in tadcaster
really hope the guys got shires harness drays got out in time and are safe

During the 1970's where I used to go sailing every weekend, the river Avon always flooded North of Tewkesbury every winter. So what did the powers that be decide? Let's build lots of houses on the flood plain. Now Tewkesbury floods worse then ever most winters and at any time in between if there is heavier then average rainfall for a period. The summers of 1978 and 79 were very hot and dry, remember 79 very well as I was heavily pregnant at the time. That autumn it started raining and didn't bother to stop until all the mutters of drought were extinguished and we were flooded everywhere.
Weather is cyclic and is affected by other factors such as a larger then average El Niño effect this year. I don't doubt that there is a global warming effect happening, but it will eventually swing the other way and we will head towards a mini ice age again. Nature has the ability to balance things out in the long run.

Nature has the ability to balance things out in the long run.

I agree Jodi,
The floods I remember were in the 1940s so it was happening then as well. I also remember to roads melting in the summer....and so it goes on

> <br />Weather has trends that seem to last a very long time. I can remember when I was a kid many many years ago floods that reached us in Hertfordshire, we lived in a reasonably high spot and still had 3ft water. I can remember the family all moving upstairs and living in the bedrooms, my mum and dads bedroom was the day room and we all slept in my bedroom. No mention of global warning in those days, it was just a case of 'damned weather'  This was not in the dales and vales, but just outside of Watford.<br />

Oh good old Watford - I went to school there and lived in a village just outside (family home).   I think I'd married and moved before any flooding however!

Just to add of course there have always been extremes of weather, but the difference now is the frequency of these extremes - THIS suggests to me at any rate, that we are into an era of global climate change.  And that simply can't be ignored.   It's a pity this change was called 'global warming' at first when in fact it's 'climate change'.

I think I'd married and moved before any flooding however!

I doubt it MamaBas as the flooding was in the mid 1940s ( LOL) unless of course you are around 90 years +..........

I was in Rickmansworth back in the day when we had a little stream across the main road and I used to watch the village blacksmith shoe the big horses round the corner from my house. This was in the town centre !!!  I expect it has changed now as I think it has become more upmarket, but it used to be a little country town that I was safe to walk through by myself to get to Parsonage Road primary school ( passing the cake shop where I could buy broken crisps out of a big container for a farthing)

really nice to read people of twilight years talking about old days you can learn a lot from them
really wish i had been born then as world now is not a nice place.children are not safe to wonder streets now a days
please keep up talking about old days its lovely to her stories what it use to be like

> I doubt it MamaBas as the flooding was in the mid 1940s ( LOL) unless of course you are around 90 years +..........<br />

Sometimes I feel that ancient , but no I'm not quite that old.    We moved out of N.London in the early 1950s when dad's work moved out.   We drove through Watford some time after we came back from Canada - old haunts.   And yes, although it was basically 'the same', much of it wasn't.  Ditto with Radlett.

And yes, although it was basically 'the same', much of it wasn't.  Ditto with Radlett.

Ah memories. My Dad was an insurance agent and used to cycle all round 'your areas' on his round - no cars for us in those days, miles and miles and everything by bike

thats another storm to hit tues night in to wednesday we seem to be getting storms every week for last month
heartbreaking to see york such beatful place
if goverment had not cut funding to lical councils places that have been badly hit would be ok
that prime minister nows he done wrong thats why he not andwering questions
its time goverment spent money on uk and not sending it aboard they should be ashamed of them selfs

I've always said charity begins AT HOME and what's going on at home, is just such an example.    I think it might help if the drains were cleared more regularly.   I think, and we've been here for 7.5 years now, we've probably had the drains outside cleared maybe twice.    And we pay how-much in C. Taxes?

I am however, not so sure all this is totally down to the Environment Agency/the Government.

Has anybody heard what happened to those white cows seen standing in how much water - on the news yesterday.   Quite literally they had nowhere to go.   No grazing.  Just water.   Terrible.

i seen flock of sheep in middle of flooded on one of news prog really hope they have been rescued and cows too still worried about samaul smith.brewary horses in tadcaster really hope they got out safly

the news people were saying its globle warning.lack.of goverment funding