Disasters – Thames flood risk to London – part 2 – BBC
The Thames holds the potential to destroy London if more care is not taken to prevent climate change.
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Look on the bright side people. Fishing should really improve in the city of London.
ahh well, i live in london but ive got a boat so im alright!
Is there an article about this (saying the same thing?)
Well at least there’s time to raise enough money for these kinds of defenses.
Ah, after the big flood in 1953 we built a number of dams and barriers. Its expensive, but if its worth the money then a lot can be done.
Check this:
watch?v=z97gwh6KQz0&feature=related
Richard
And welcome to YouTube. Anyway, if the the risk to flooding increases as they say so, they should expand the flood defenses soon. You guys in Holland have a bigger flood barrier don’t ya? The Maeslantkering?
Of course it can!
Greetings from Holland
R.
Yes,but just because you can swim dosent mean you won’t drown, there are currents both on the water and under the water and they can drag you under neath the water and you can drown but if you can swim you’ve got a lesser chance of drowning.
Can’t the Thames Barrier gates just be extended higher? Or can another massive flood barrier be built further downstream?
The Environment Agency Floodscape project identified Cliffe Creek as the weak point in an otherwise fairly robust sea defence on the North Kent Marshes please bring this to the attention of the TE2100 team during the consultation process
In the Thames Estuary we are telling the environment agency how much we value our freshwater grazing marsh. Realignment of the seawall is an opportunity to create more room for wildlife, but it MUST be in the right place. The WRONG place is where there are important nationally & internationally protected habitats inside the seawall. They are protected for a reason because they are rare, precious and worth hanging on to
i agree.the book by richard doyl was excellent, shame the film was absolute bullshit though
Excellent resource for my Year 8 students. Thanx for posting.
wizzboy76
the death toll had nothing to do with:
the flood coming at night when most people were in bed and trapped in thier bedrooms by the weight of water preventing doors from opening?
the cyrrents and tides that turned floating objects into battering rams to knock people down and pin them down?
freezing temperature of water and air that killed within minutes?
parents supporting thier children above the water at the cost of thier own lives?
hah, they just couldn’t swim!
W00T INTERHIGH
you know why hundreds where killed back then, in the early days ? it was due to the fact that only 1 in 80 people back then could swim, i have researched. to day its more like 30 in 80 can swim.
Yes, I have the DVD as well and watched all those interviews, very interesting indeed and I get the feeling that they’re convinced something like this could happen – then we’re all screwed. Given the right extreme weather conditions as portrayed in both the book and movie, it might be a possibility.
did you see the interviews with the actors afterwards?
if you saw the TV film I would recommend that you get the DVD out now – and watch the documentry done by the actors after the film – tpicaly watch their faces and see how one or two of them show a sign of consern in the making and after the film.
Signed ADF1.
Aaaagghhh we’re all doomed! Seriously, the ITV FLOOD was very good, butread the book FLOOD by RIchard Doyle, its way better and makes a better point about how the Thames could be a threat, along with the industry on its banks!
laggy
I’m a bit sorry to disappoint you, but is a bit more than picking up litter; lets say we shouldn’t produce that much litter in the first place,so to speak.
Message 2.
Also DR Sarah Lavery is part of the Project Leader time for the Environment Agency at the Thames Barrier.
speek your opinons freely as they are reguarded as fair comment, But I will give this warning.
Hear me not and the prise will be to high to pay in the end, as a cancerine I give this warning heed it well and note it.
My studying will continue and I will be watching deeply on this issue.
Signed ADF1.
Jaydizzay, if I maybe so bold – you think you are under attack from someone who has no right too.
But miss the point on wich I say, I am here to help and Defend the Barrier and save the City I reside in.
The time for bickering is over, its time for action not words of anger.
So from what I see you would say, that Sarah Lavery does not have a clue what she is on about and yet she and I are working along the same turms.
Signed ADF1.
Found it. Surtsey, 1963. There’s also an island close to the Solomon islands, the birth of which was observed in 2000, from Kavachi, the volcano.
With regard to my comment about the new Icelandic land formed within the past few decades, it’s name eludes me. However, 2 minutes of googling will sort that out.