One of the Vfr club members had his vfr750 damaged beyond repair in Carlisle earlier this month.KermitLeFrog wrote:Over the last few years, after mega floods in 2005 and not quite so bad ones in 2009, a huge amount of money has been spent on a flood barrier on the south side of the Tyne at Corbridge. They added piles and raised a long length of concrete wall only this summer. However, it came over the dyke 1/2 a mile upstream and flooded the same places again. They reckon the dyke was 18" too low.
I actually feel a bit sorry for the Environment Agency. Where do they stop? New blocks of apartments have recently been built in just this area. OK, only the ground floor apartment got flooded but WTF? Why build there and, even more so, why buy there?
As far as I know only one motorcycle death. A BMW so it dosn't really count....
I suppose 3 story houses with a garage on the ground floor is the way to go.
Roger