More rain hits Wales amid Storm Dennis fallout

For communities in South Wales that have been devastated by Storm Dennis, there was more heavy rain and flooding today.
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At least a thousand properties in Wales have been affected by the severe weather, leaving roads, bridges and other infrastructure needing repairs.
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[@flippop101]

I feel very sorry for the enormous suffering endured by the Welsh in the last days. The news bulletins are heart wrenching. I wish them strength and good luck from Germany!

[@johnlemberger5088]

When the banks went bust back in 2008 the government bailed them out with £1,200 billion or £80k for every UK family of 4. When ppl in the Valleys have their lives destroyed through no fault of their own they're told there's no money. I'm sure all those families would like to see a man from the government turn up with a suitcase full of £80k banknotes but poor people are not bankers, we get a kick in the teeth.

[@paulhoskin3286]

So you get flooded you contact your insurance company and then they charge you 10 times the amount when is renewed what a bunch of crooks they are

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

They class storm damage as acts of god and don't pay out for events that they class as those!

[@matbroomfield]

Or to look at it another way: you move onto a flood plain, expect your insurance to pay out for the very thing the area is known for, and everybody ELSE'S premiums go up to cover it. I know which I think is fairer.

[@flamingpieherman9822]

I Florida during hurricane season its the same thing...or worse they wont even insure you and leave the state...

[@matbroomfield]

@@flamingpieherman9822 Why SHOULD they insure you? They're not charities. If you choose to live in the path of repeated tornadoes, that risk is on YOU not all the other people being insured, and certainly not the insurance BUSINESS.

[@laluba3603]

@@matbroomfield So what is the use of insurance. Because everyone are hereafter living in areas that are going to be affected of climate emergence related whether. So, don't spread your greedy muck too generously around . You might need help some day

[@robcrebs4663]

The chicken guy should have let his chickens out! They would have found higher ground!

[@french1956]

Think it's bad now? This is just the beginning.

[@Lotta594]

Yes, it,s Geoingeneering all the way. Look at Mike Morales at yout and you will see. Weatherwar and weathermodification.

[@Iamtheclip]

Time to leave your possessions behind and head to higher ground, at least you will have time to reflect on the important things, like love, "WHO is LOVE" kindness, helping others worse off, give what you have to those in need!

[@Iamtheclip]

Dr Wolfgang Chausser you mean corona!

[@Iamtheclip]

Dr Wolfgang Chausser wow you sure!

[@Iamtheclip]

Ok, definitely pass it on! Thank you

[@alanmarr3323]

The UK has been warned continully from Europe about increased flood problem!

[@Madmax-iy8fi]

Floods wouldn’t be a problem if you don’t build on flood plains.Weathers was here long before us

[@junglie]

@david mulligan Just where is your proof of this statement? I suppose europe made it rain too? or cut our poor sick peoples benefits? Sunbot!

[@junglie]

@david mulligan pack vile of racist lies. brexit has cost this country more than all the payments to the eu since we joined combined you idiot.

[@chris2610]

Imagine having your entire life upended and ruined by something called "Dennis" that's the most nonterrifying name imaginable

[@cancerfour69er]

THE PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS(100-400)had seen this before so moved to Higher Ground xx IT HAPPENS ON ARE LANDS OFTEN CHECK RECENT RECORDS!!?

[@lisas7476]

No ones talking about moving or building with homes higher up so flooding goes under the house

[@harrish6]

Desperately needed funds to help these areas and people while untold billions squandered by Boris and his government on vanity projects like Hs2. and bridges to Ireland. While many pot holed roads in the country are worse than some cart tracks.

[@matbroomfield]

Are they vanity projects or important infrastructural projects? There's never a good time to spend tens of billions of pounds, but if you wait until you have it lying around spare, large projects will never happen. How would you spend the money to help these people?

[@matbroomfield]

@PM Granted.

[@hurri7720]

Worry not, Boris will help you he went to Eton school after all.

[@rdrhouse]

do they have special training in that school. You're so clever.............

[@rdrhouse]

@Wyatt Mann Ms Abbott was not available.

[@cantstopthemusic456]

councils dont have any money cos the councillors embezzled it all already

[@mccari09]

Maybe don’t build houses on flood plains

[@matbroomfield]

Exactly! A friend of mine moved in 6 months ago. She told me iher new 350k house is right by a river. I asked if she was concerned about floods. "Nah, it only does it every 50 years". Yeah, that was whe we weren't destroying the climate. And now I'm supposed to feel sorry for her, or see my insurance raise to help her. Stupid woman.

[@mccari09]

Mat Broomfield the main thing I’m concerned about is the so called “consensus” amongst climate scientists. Many times throughout history people believed absolutely insane things if you view them from our perspective. Take Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei or just plain Galileo to most. He was condemned to house arrest because the authority of the time had the consensus of the supposed educated elite. Another you ask? Maybe you’ve heard of a little known man called Nikola Tesla or maybe Albert Einstein? My point you ask? My point is this... Entertaining the wild ideas of mad men is far better in every single way than quashing dissent from consensus

[@matbroomfield]

@david mulligan The EU did NOT stop river dredging in cases where it was needed for flood management. This incompetence rests solely on local council management. And what has also gone wrong is climate change.

[@matbroomfield]

@@mccari09 You could't be more wrong. Galileo was imprisoned for going against Catholic orthodoxy, NOT simply for arguing against claims of geo-centrism. Moreover, the fact that there was consensus in an age before the scientific method is tribute only to how far bad ideas can spread without widespread dissemination of competing ideas, a method for examining claims, and the untellectual freedom to do so. How many things can you point to that had the support of a literate scientific majority, that turned out to be wrong? And was it not the scientific method that disproved them, that gives us greater faith in widespread consensus? We can point to LOTS of things that had the support of some, even many scientists, that may not be what they appeared to be - black holes, the expansion rate of the universe, and dark matterto name but three. But ALL scientists recognised them purely as placeholder theories. Climate scientists have a consensus because the effects of different gases on the atmosphere can be measured and predicted, and their effects on solar radiation trapping or release and other planetary phenomenon can also be predicted, and these predictions are broadly consistent with reality. Unless you have a superior way for evaluating reality, it seems foolhardy or arrogant to dismiss them.

[@matbroomfield]

@david mulligan Are you agreeing or being sarcastic?

[@susanb4816]

it is a lot harder to take help than to give it. that is what folks who want benefits cuts never seem to understand

[@nicholeparrish5253]

Prayerfor all affected by this weather

[@matbroomfield]

Yeah, that'll help. :-/

[@nicholeparrish5253]

Prayers do help :)

[@kimweaver3323]

@@nicholeparrish5253 Prayers may make the pray-er feel better for a while, but it doesn't stop rain or climate change. In fact, if you adhere to a literalist idea of a gawd then it becomes obvious that the kristchunnnnn gawd CAN'T "answer" prayers or grant wishes, unless what you are begging for is already in the "perfect eternal plan".

[@matbroomfield]

@@nicholeparrish5253 They clearly don't or all the millions of people who prayed not to be killed would still be alive. In double blind studies, it is proven that prayer actually makes things worse.

[@ROBERTSCOIN]

can't somebody set a fund up for these people i don't mind giving to a fund

[@timramm1]

People who live in Narrowboats will be feeling very grateful

[@ep53]

As much as i feel sorry for these people, they better get used to it or move. Climate change is real and floods (then droughts) will continue to get exponentially worse for the foreseeable future. This is just the beginning, 10 years from now these floods will seem like childsplay.

[@rachelgault8580]

Cosmic rays are making storms more intense

[@cb2000a]

And earthquakes and volcano's (Grand Solar Minimum)

[@ROBERTSCOIN]

it reminds you of the Aberfan disaster with all that black stuff

[@cantstopthemusic456]

amazing that just a few generations ago people lived bravely through wars... nowadays people losing their toys brings a heartbroken response...sad

[@taijitu688]

Where's the Prince of Wales?

[@heidistinton721]

I heard on tv that he's visiting .

[@ROBERTSCOIN]

most of the houses in south wales are not on flood plains

[@l8ton906]

i went to france to work for a month in september and came back to wales and since i have been back it as rained every week apart from 1 dry week thats a lot of rain fall so i think councils should have planned better they can see storms coming long before we can so why not act sooner and people could have had more resources to try to stop this tragic event and more rain is coming but its to late now and familys are now broken by this and lost faith in our councils who we trust to help us as we pay them to with there taxes its shameful and disappointing keep strong wales and all of the UK who have been affected by these events god bless you all

[@PHILIPWATSON82]

Shame on the insurance con merchants

[@rhidzla]

This is so sad :(

[@rogerashar9548]

This is gonna be a norm in future

[@nancyhobson9710]

I think planning laws in the whole of the UK will need to be revised, so that buildings, particularly homes, cannot be built on land that is lower than x. Quantify it.

[@lasttango7522]

Nancy thank god somone speaks sense. Its harrendous near the calder in the North but hey ho. Councils still insist on building on flood plains. My heart goes out to those people. But we have numpty politicians that are spewing their hypocrisy as usual. None of them have done anything to stop the money grabbing councils.

[@kathleensimpson582]

Anyone whose insurance company won't settle the claim - Call the Ombudsman as my insurance company A Vi Va rejected my flood damage claim in 2015 when my home was flooded but the Ombudsman forced them to settle.

[@catsnmi270]

Is there a disaster fund? Where can I send stuff to help these people?

[@dolcevita7806]

If you have family members or friends in the affected areas, please make sure that they have something warm/hot to eat and drink throughout the day during clean-up - it's very important that they get that extra warmth, and so strength, to rebuild their lives.

[@roofpizza1250]

I was thinking that the wales would just dive if the rain and wind got too much for them. Then I was like...OH.

[@ohiostin]

2-3 minute clips are best.

[@julesgiddings8747]

This is only the beginning...

[@ROBERTSCOIN]

@UCLajflmPgpZH7Rw3coQVqpA most of the flooded houses in south wales are not by the river

[@Bewefau]

why don't you just make the building's higher? Put them all on higher foundations.

[@lange71krakapoi9]

dont wanna be rude...but if you look at the infrastructure ….it looks like its been built by king arthur himself...its all looks very old and fragile

[@clarkkent4595]

Not already

[@isaacjoseph8317]

I feel their pain of their loss from floods of CIca and Dennis.

[@jhb1359]

I never had my bins emptied this week. Not a happy chappy

[@freudsigmund72]

Had the UK still been an EU member there would have been a disaster relief fund. Having the other EU members pitch in for help. Good luck with Westmister.

[@barnbersonol]

I bet you any money we've put a helluva a lot into that fund that we've taken out.

[@freudsigmund72]

@@barnbersonol probably.... and you would have taken advantage now, because that is what solidarity in a union is all about.

[@cancerfour69er]

My Heart Goes out to young Lass that lost everything Was given A Council House Scumbags Know The Records Of Flooding In Whales Yet Still Build Houses For The Poor In Lowlands...x

[@helendonohoe1575]

It's all very sad

[@madazjack2394]

The northern hemisphere is gonna get it from nature

[@julianhastings1547]

Breaks !

[@kingston4313]

Apparently there’s storm Susan or something coming as well

[@SirHaroldMaguire]

No the next one begins with E

[@Christinebanks11]

Flood insurance Kind of important !

[@andycheckley6530]

But I got a new blue passport, everything's OK

[@Bewefau]

It was all that fire in Australia made all the rain come.

[@bluegold21]

Leanne sees the truth. Science has warned of this for decades but their advice has always been stonewalled by concerns for profit margins from regional commerce.

[@stephengirling7859]

We should start our own community insurance system so the corporate thieves are cut out of the loop.

[@catmandont100]

If only there were some type of WARNING.

[@mipajaro1]

Sorry.

[@luckydubeinrc5165]

don't build in low lying flood areas, next to rivers etc...common sense !

[@YuureiInu]

Maybe plant some forests? In other countries most forests are not natural but planted and managed.

[@catblue7065]

Sad

[@Mike_5]

Surely the Welsh would have preferred to have also given Storm Dennis a Cymraeg name

[@mordokch]

Jones the storm :)

[@nigelabishop1]

It’s taking back control

[@internautmedia1210]

Insurance companies 🙄🙄🙄 Insurance is just a fear pitch. One of life's biggest cons.

[@stantonsteed9884]

GIANT FLOOD TANKS SHOULD BE BUILT AND THE RIVER MADE SIX TIMES DEEPER AND TWICE HAS WIDE.

[@perlan1956]

Good you got out of EU . Now you don’t need to take any climate refugees from Madagascar at least

[@emm_arr]

Maybe skrewed is the new normal in the UK.

[@emm_arr]

@James Smith Rubbish shitpost, Al.

[@millomweb]

The guy with the dead ducks and chickens should be jailed for animal cruelty/neglect.

[@mrcrabass3669]

O please don't be such a nasty person,the water came so quick ,and I suspect he had no time to move them.all these people need our support.

[@drubber007]

Sorry but the guy with the ducks....why would not have got them out of their cages and put them somewhere safe when you knew a storm with weather warning s was given and live in a place liable to flood. The mind boggles.

[@hosephanerothe1440]

I know these peoples houses have flooded but I refuse to pay for a tv license!

[@wisdom6437]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@hselctrical]

😥

[@docswidow2479]

It'll be another Aberdeen and if they're not careful

[@rosemarydudley9954]

regarding the land slides, do you mean Aberffan?

[@docswidow2479]

@@rosemarydudley9954 yes, I am not familiar as I should be. My heart goes out to these flood victims. One lady said her insurance was not gonna help her. She lost everything as did so many others. I cried as I watched this. Just an awful situation.

[@docswidow2479]

@Fflur Efa are you seeing slides? Is it called flack? Mud?

[@harrietlyall1991]

Emigrate to Aviemore. Bring back Crannogs.

[@paulhoskin3286]

What are we going to call the next storm which begins with the letter e

[@SirHaroldMaguire]

I don't know but it will be a girls name, Emma or Elaine or something. Then Fred, Then Gladys and so on and so forth.

[@annatamparow4917]

Why not Eleanor? She was King Henry II's queen, and a very determined woman.

[@robertpierce4069]

I'm sure I read that storm Ellen is already wending her way across the Atlantic.

[@jackiesharp7408]

I was hoping for Enid.

[@heidistinton721]

For all in UK flooded,keep safe and so sorry all your going through and my message for Tory prime minister,visit all who been flooded ,listen to them in all they need plus want especially as in future flooding will carry on ECT.as people of UK count more than your Tory plans for transport as life is more important,so action needed now and jolly well visit all now ,just like you did in election after your votes.from UK and one eye sight that gets blurry,but I care for human life more than your Tory profit and transport plans as UK people come 1st.ps celebs,do a blinking concert for UK flood aide for all suffering in UK because of floods now,charity counts in UK to.love to all suffering because of floods.also to Tory pm,end Tory austerity for all now.for all suffering because of floods sending love.xxx

[@ibanez2607]

There are solutions to these problems. Come and have a look how we deal with it. (The Netherlands). Even after Brexit we are willing to help our neighbours!

[@alrudacharlton7854]

❤🇧🇸🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Madmax-iy8fi]

I just love how people a so shocked by weather😄weather was here long before houses and people.Get in its way and it’ll f@ck you up.

[@royahadi5503]

Too much pay tax to government now government has to helping them doesn’t need too much described about that

[@lovelymayangmyheart1111]

prayer. for. u. all my. frnd. and be. safe all...

[@RowanSheridan]

yeah...that'll help

[@wendy54321]

Amen

[@matbroomfield]

Clearly most of the commenters below don't have the slightest clue how insurance works. INSURANCE IS A BUSINESS NOT AS CHARITY.. If you crash your car, your insurance goes up because you are a greater risk. If you keep crashing your car, nobody will insure you and your driving days are over for a while. Likewise, if you buy a house somewhere that regularly floods, that's YOUR stupidity. It's not the responsibility of an insurer OR the rest of us via government to reimburse you. If you take the gamble and win, we don't get to share your profits, so why should we share your losses when we never got a vote on the risks?

[@emm_arr]

We'll know the UK is serious about land and land use when the issue of large landowners taking public money for poor land practices gets addressed. Maybe Brexit will make people question these subsidies?!

[@emm_arr]

@K MT Rubbish shitpost, Al. You're some Russian woman and you have no control over UK or even Russian spending. You are a lowly keyboard warrior of little talent.

[@hilarydrinkwater5392]

@K MT Labouheyre in France where a mountaineer overlooks the West reading the manual

[@hilarydrinkwater5392]

@@emm_arr Not Russia ~ France ~ getting the boot into the West reading from the manifesto

[@emm_arr]

@K MT Rubbish shitpost, Al. Your smear is halfway down your back, as usual.

[@emm_arr]

@@hilarydrinkwater5392 Rubbish shitpost, Hals. You look just like another Al Pike sockpuppet!

[@jasonkeys5940]

Free Ireland now.

[@laluba3603]

What's the use of insurance ? this is a force majeure! It is not covered by insurance.And this is also what extinction rebellion talked about. And you people where mocking them. The scientists have TOLD YOU.

[@Skylark_Jones]

Brexit - and now this. Very very scary, this must be the worst flooding in British history - it's the new normal! So sorry for the poor people affected by this.

[@Gabensy]

Ridiculous Happened before multiple times . This problem should sorted out long time ago. Good things we paying tax Government.......well done

[@englishbullterrier847]

Send the army in to help

[@valeriestephenson8346]

The army won't stop the floods.

[@englishbullterrier847]

@@valeriestephenson8346 no but they can help everyone

[@waddon1]

The Conservatives don't care about the valleys

[@englishbullterrier847]

@@waddon1 we meant to be great Britain and you should help your own.but your right it does seem that way.

[@billynomates7347]

If they send help this time it will set a precedent and every time it floods people will expect the government to intervine. They are more likely to say climate change is beyond their control and if you live in a flood plain, good luck, you're on your own.

[@dgh469]

Greta told you gits !!! & yous told her to go back to skool !!!

[@Da51lva]

Where is if they at all asking is the foreign Aid from Other countries?

[@boombam1925]

One of them are my teachers lol

[@RIXRADvidz]

how do ducks drown? pinned down in a cage yeah, why not release the animals? it's what you do in disasters, they usually stick close to home, but they can flee if in danger, in a cage you wait for your death.

[@thebitsanpiecesman4423]

Hang on the ducks drowned????? Don't they float, like pretty easily

[@junglie]

not if they're caged....

[@medialies6254]

The EU has emergency funding for this....oh wait..they voted to leave the EU in wales...ooooops...maybe Boris and ress mogg Will bail them out...ooooops again.

[@MichelleBeahm]

The EU is broke you know that right? France is broke ... Germany is broke .. even if the UK remained with the globalists they wouldn’t have gotten any help from Brussels

[@Aarontlondon]

Exactly! 😂

[@rogerelliot7501]

@Hauke Holst I wanted to remain too so I could have lots more muslim immigrants, maybe they could move into your bedroom? Practice what you preach

[@lasttango7522]

@Hauke Holst If we had remained in the EU. They would have done sod all. Dont talk stupid. My town was flooded 5 years ago people lost houses the EU did buggar all. Now sod off. Sick of idiots like you.

[@medialies6254]

You can bullshit yourself if you like and try to justify It....but i will NOT ALLOW you to bullshit me...have a great day and be Happy

[@emm_arr]

Al Pike/K MT is now posting racism as James Smith. So many sockpuppets.

[@emm_arr]

@James Smith en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

[@ATD-tt4if]

😏

[@Angel-jp3vx]

I wonder how would Brits deal with war situation... All would have nervous break downs. U'll be all ok. UK has rich treasury n gold stolen from colonies.

[@deneskovacs6220]

Brexit now...oh sorry....my name is Dennis

[@margaretclarke9703]

I hope the person who left the ducks fastened in cages to drown is going to be done for animal cruelty no excuse for that they could have released them. And how many of these councillors actually live in the places that were flooded none i guess so why would hey care

[@ralfrath699]

Boris is on the happy Brexit happy Party and starts new deals with the EU and the USA. I love all the wrong deals our governments even if the British people have voted for but if Britain has to pay the price then I ask me why?

[@wangdangdoodie]

Is English not your first language?

[@alanmarr3323]

If the government had followed the EU directive on flooding and environment in 2009 the problem would have been less!

[@jamesprice6605]

part of the reason were in this mess is that we had no choice but to follow the 2003 directive on the ban on river dredging despite environmental scientists objections.

[@emm_arr]

@@jamesprice6605 Nope. Wrong.

[@jamesprice6605]

@@emm_arr nope. wrong, see i can do it to; got anything to actually disprove what im saying or are you just just going to act like a yank?

[@emm_arr]

@@jamesprice6605 "got anything to actually disprove what im saying" Superior knowledge. Your claim "is that we had no choice but to follow the 2003 directive on the ban on river dredging" is false. Try Googling this.

[@deepwaters3335]

Just when you think things cant get any worse in the world... America praying for England....

[@deepwaters3335]

@Fflur Efa Then I shall pray for Wales...smiles.

[@deepwaters3335]

@Fflur Efa My sir names are McEntyre and Duncan. I am from some where over there..

[@deepwaters3335]

@Fflur Efa My Great Grandfather was William Wallace McEntyre.

[@deepwaters3335]

@Fflur Efa Smiles, I would rather be Scottish than English.... thank you very much... Smiles.

[@samy_bouzaglo]

So this is what Brexit is all about huh?

[@ashleylaw]

Geo Engineered. Eugenics agenda.

[@timekeeper7542]

its funny how the uk are quick to help countries in need charity gigs an all that look now do you see anyone coming to our aid..............dont think so