Major incident declared in Greater Manchester after heavy flooding

[@guardiannews]

Major incident declared in Greater Manchester over widespread flooding ► www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/jan/01/wind-and-rain-batters-uk-new-years-day-2025-live-updates

[@cameronmacandrew3001]

There would be much less flooding if the Councils throughout the country would just do their job, ...and clean the drains

[@tricia4900]

And spraying the skies

[@jlc-sh9rz]

Yes- do their job- clear the gutters, clean the drains, get local rivers properly-dredged, stop householders concreting over grass.......and then perhaps stop blaming the inevitable consequences of their negligence on fictitious climate change.

[@allanmuldowney4430]

Scotland the same It should be one of their main safety priorities.

[@serenan920]

Councils doing their jobs..Wash your mouth out!😜

[@simonyapp]

With what money do they use to do this ? This is clearly old infrastructure not coping with a warmer climate and thus a wetter climate

[@MartyJackson]

This happened to us in Greater London in September. Now have no furniture, carpet, wallpaper, electrics, infested with rats - insurance company say they’re “working on it”. Biggest scam going. Stay safe people.

[@jasonantigua6825]

What part of Greater London?

[@ivorleak8823]

Get yourself an inflatable.

[@lynnes5561]

You can take that as haven't got enough money!!!

[@jimfixer9589]

Not surprised when half of Islamabad is fly tipping and littering everywhere the drains are bound to get clogged up, also having Shitique Khan as mayor doesn’t help.

[@jimfixer9589]

@ Got enough money to keep potential terrorists and child groomers in hotels warm tho

[@alisonbrown1841]

Cleaning the drains , oh less for shareholders in international wefminster circle! ?

[@Deadbeat-k1l]

WEF are our only hope.

[@grandaddyoe1434]

Council staff pensions come before public service . . .

[@Jack_Warner]

@@Deadbeat-k1l I hope that's sarcasm?

[@PatriciaBevan-h6u]

Which country is donating aid for us?

[@plentyofnothing]

Why would another country aid the UK in this situation? Its a minor flood no one has died yet. The floods in Valencia October 2024 killed 231 people, the Euro floods in July 2021 killed 243 people - global warming and climate change is impacting everywhere

[@DeanSchofield-jb3hp]

Dumb comment

[@MO-UK786]

Pakistan or India 😂

[@sariputraa]

@@plentyofnothing KING CHARLES????

[@shu1981noah]

This is what can happen when you build too close to a river or in a bog or floodplain. The excess water has to go somewhere. Concrete, paving, and tarmac make matters worse. Best of luck to those who've experienced flooding. It's horrible and stressful. Hope this new year improves for you

[@threegenders201]

Idk those houses look prettay prettay old to me

[@shu1981noah]

@threegenders201 old buildings used to be built by water courses for the purposes of travel, trade, defence, water power, bathing, drinking, laundry, irrigation, and dumping scraps and slops. Of course those places are very prone to flooding. Manchester, like many other places, sprawled out during the industrial revolution. Then in the early to mid 1900s, they spread out even more with the suberbs being created with houses like in the video. A 1920s or 30s house is a hundred years old now. Houses built on higher ground and away from water courses obvious aren't so prone to flooding. A lot of Manchester is built on boggy ground. It's largely flat and downhill from the Pendines. Obviously water runs downhill, but hills also cause rain to fall. It's got something to do with air pressure. Some even used to say the blocks in Salford caused an increase in rainfall, but I take that with a pinch of salt. The ribbon development of the Victoria houses pushed out into surrounding countryside, and was then filled in with the suberbs, meaning towns became much bigger. The more land is paved, the more severe the flooding. Built up and paved areas make flooding worse for several reasons. Clay soil probably doesn't help much either. Sometimes built up areas cause more flooding but that flooding happens in a different location. The land most of modern Manchester is built on would have been wet and boggy. It's surprising that Manchester doesn't flood more than it does really. The worst places for flooding are the old market towns built by rivers like those beside the Severn and Avon. I've lived in places with boggy ground and near rivers and they're definitely the worst for flooding. There's a village and medieval bridge near me that floods every year. I've lived in a farm labourers cottage built in boggy land at the base of the Preseli hills. Predating all the damp proofing etc, the damp just rose up the walls from the surrounding ground. I live by the edge of a small brook that swells in winter and spreads over a plain, stopping just before my garden. They paved over the brook to build a roundabout and McDonald's. Then they wonder why McDonald's floods. I lived by the Severn in an old town, and the river often flooded. When a small river gets a lot of rain, it will get deeper and wider and not be able to take on all the water, and then buildings will flood no matter when they were built. Boggy ground can just take on the extra water, and vegetation absorbed water through the roots, releasing it through the leaves. Plants release nearly a hundred percent of the water they absorb, back out through their leaves. A bog just gets extra boggy and it's not a problem unless you live there. The house can be 400 years old like the one I lived in, but it will still flood.

[@LeedsRider]

People really need to learn how to safely drive through floodwater. So many needlessly damaged cars.

[@lat1419]

Especially the hidden potholes

[@jimfixer9589]

How about certain communities need to stop littering and fly tipping everywhere so the drains don’t get clogged up ??

[@LeedsRider]

@johncheetham4607 If it's salt water then yeah, not great. Most EVs are okay with a reasonable amount of standing water though.

[@rollthetape88]

@@johncheetham4607 the battery is sealed...

[@CatatonicImperfect]

These cars should really never be driven through water. Why risk thousands of the King's coins or even totalling the car?

[@philoffhistree]

they should of showed the old mill in stockport next to tesco, fancy building housing into an old mill that used to be powered by the river next to it, dumb as anything and how on earth it got approval must of been back handers, company should be liable to pay the costs

[@lw1zfog]

county councils nationwide now clean drainage systems retroactively

[@aleccap5946]

Remember liar Boris Johnson standing up in Parliament shouting his big mouth off "We're investing billions of pounds in flood defence" ?

[@lynnes5561]

Instead of road drainage!!!!

[@aleccap5946]

@lynnes5561 Amazing the amount of millions of pounds wasted to deduct he was a liar lol 😆 2 or 3 enquiries

[@christophertaylor6079]

Also a huge labour promise that they heavily advertised on this platform, with their ad staring the now PM himself (the then opposition leader) visiting and promising flood victims that a labour government would deliver the solution that the conservatives had neglected blah blah etc etc... the only change is the face spewing the same old rhetoric

[@HamzaaValli]

they decided to give the money to zelensky

[@aleccap5946]

@HamzaaValli our money

[@philthymiller]

This is what happens when nobody cleans out grids/drains !!!!!!

[@jiggersotoole7823]

@@philthymiller also what happens when they tarmac over gardens

[@CimonSowel1]

Or cut vital services to channel the cash elsewhere

[@gonnabeayogi1445]

And they will build more and more housing contributing to more and more flooding.

[@simonyapp]

New houses have modern drainage with expansion ponds, this is old infrastructure not coping with a warmer and wetter climate

[@gonnabeayogi1445]

@ I’ve seen those ponds so yeah I can understand that’s why they are dug into the bigger housing estates, but surely miles of fields soak water into the earth much quicker than miles of brick houses and tarmac roads? Either that or it’s caused by the tears of indigenous Brits as our beautiful countryside is lost forever 🤔

[@MisterMauer]

Too many people in the U.K. making it sink

[@grandaddyoe1434]

Politically, economically, culturally, demographically, violently . . . . and so on . . .

[@helenpauls1496]

Not enough people cleaning up after themselves.

[@bowiefaniamiam8118]

My heart goes out to all those affected by floods anywhere in the world. This is devastating 😢😢

[@ItsThePrimeTimeShow]

Kier starmer: I'm on my way ill be there now! A few moments later: I'm sorry but holidays are better than a flood.

[@letsgobrandon5502]

Cloud seeding in full swing

[@Deadbeat-k1l]

Whaaaaa haaaa haaa...

[@letsgobrandon5502]

@Deadbeat-k1l you okay mate?

[@Deadbeat-k1l]

@@letsgobrandon5502 No bumpkins make my stomach hurt :)

[@susandroger8248]

Notice the toxic fog too

[@letsgobrandon5502]

@@Deadbeat-k1l do you even know what a bumpkin is? Try making sense mate

[@rose-kp4lf]

cars can still move in water amazing

[@SomPrince]

Depressing non stop rain

[@jimfixer9589]

The drains could easily cope if the “locals” didn’t litter so much and fly tipping everywhere wherever there’s an open space.

[@muckymedway3309]

That’s Manchester. If you can’t see the Pennines it’s raining. - If you can it’s going to rain.

[@mrdelaney4440]

Bridgewater canal has burst its banks at dunham, worst its been since the 70s.

[@Fun-rr6ci]

When was the last time the gully pots were emptied. In my area 7 years ago. The roads are breaking up, and all the small stones sometimes causing drifts across road junctions, the gully pots are full, and can not take the water off the streets. - so petition your councilors, possibly threatening to sue for damages, as most of the problem is the outsourced services are not being fulfilled. When our services were outsourced, there were 13 gully emptying machines, a few years ago (3/4) there was 1 machine still working, the others had their staff sacked. So DYOR.

[@invisibleman1459]

Flooded with rain and flooded with illegal immigrants

[@Deadbeat-k1l]

Northern bumkin

[@grandaddyoe1434]

Massive legal importation is far and away the worst existential threat currently facing UK. Illegal immigration is only intended as a distraction; don't be taken-in by the 'noise'.

[@HamzaaValli]

yawn yawn how long before the word Immigrants was thrown in ......

[@FatherFractal]

It has been designed to flood 😂

[@davidhall1364]

Sorry for the people that live there. But this is an example of building on un suitable ground. It's going to become a norm. Their is a reason we haven't built so many houses. We are mostly marsh land.

[@lynnes5561]

Not enough drainage

[@jimfixer9589]

Right the “locals” are littering everywhere in major cities resulting in the drains being clogged up the amount of fly tipping in Birmingham is disgusting, lots of drains on the roads have become blocked and water logged as a result, but our Labour MP for the area is still in cloth-eared denial.

[@descartesdonkey4291]

noshit sherlock

[@aschronicles5006]

Where in Manchester is this happening?

[@Millsy_]

It literally says at the start of the video and in the description...

[@3fromjapan]

Didsbury, Harpurhey, Stalybridge, Stockport and Wigan

[@jiggersotoole7823]

@@Millsy_ hahaha

[@illiteratethug3305]

Everywhere, I nearly got stranded in Saddleworth

[@Christinesees]

I must have blinked and missed it 😂😂

[@YouTuberJames92610]

A simple failure of infrastructure. This is to become normal in the upcoming years. Remember late 80s-90s of soviet union, we had similar situation, and one day found ourselves in the third world country.

[@brianboeing9799]

Long winter yet

[@paulwoods2449]

How are the EV's coping?

[@Lerie2010able]

What was the point of that with sod all information?

[@doriswaddington2418]

What about Bury?

[@davidlove1944]

bet the irwell was interesting round by Summerseat

[@lokizig]

Whereabouts in Bolton was flooded Anybody Know ??

[@robertlloyd9236]

Looks like blocked drains to me

[@h54h52]

Can you imagine being in a relationship with this girl??? She would drive you mad!

[@powerwiz]

When will people learn NOT to drive through water that high. Water in the engine is AWFUL!! TERRIBLE!

[@alexk9494]

Comes from concreting over and building on green fields into which rainwater used to soak. Now it flows down gutters , drains are blocked and eventually the water flows into rivers which then overflow. They want to build more housing which will mean more of this.

[@nicholaskirk9810]

This is why councils should clean the drains regularly and put money into flood defences ect. I’ve no doubt most of the flooding could’ve been avoided!!!!

[@AtomicxToast]

Great that means no trains and no getting home for me any time soon.

[@cptJackSparrow-ze8nf]

I hope they saved and rehomed those poor migrants!!!

[@RichardDemello]

Hey guys, the wildfires in California 2025 2025, whatever the day they started 2025 we are hoping to get an update+deathtoll 2025 Manchester, England. Did 2025 floods in Manchester ever come up with an updated death toll? I was just wondering. I live in Alaska, and our machines were all broken yesterday when I went to the Valley public library.

[@S-Fish-yt3ib]

A MAJOR INCIDENT,,,,,, its a flooded road,,, moreover Stalybridge has a flooded road too. Brings me to the conclusion that grids have not been cleaned etc, THIS will be another excuse for problems with infrastructure..... I hate being switched on when most are not. WAIT til the Electric/energy shortages come because the UK has already scuppered its oil, gas and Nuclear. Mitsubishi facility has been de commissioned on Anglesy, France needs all the Uranium due to still having 13 NP stations, I bet Farms and house's are being bought by Blackrock aswell. Happy 2025.

[@RebeccaMassey-jj9cx]

New year New river

[@KamilP-x3c]

OMG what manchester underwater ohno.😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@roseela1191]

Look like a swamp to us

[@sprograt]

This is what you get when councils waste money on trivial experiments like bike lanes that no one uses there is no money left to do basic maintenance like cleaning out man holes and gullies from leaves and silt, I live in a small cul de sac with 15 houses on it there are 6 man holes and 4 are blocked to the top with silt and other stuff, every time it rains heavily the water just runs over the top and floods the road at the bottom of the cul de sac then the council clean out the man holes on the road that has the flood water collecting on it 🤬 they don't investigate why the water is collecting on that road. Another problem is rivers are no longer dredged as often as they once were causing the flooding we see.

[@Animielovleyroblox]

DAM in my country it’s so bad

[@pickeledminister317]

Was it Russia's fault?

[@alansmith4748]

Why do you believe it might be Russia's fault?

[@Gabaja21]

Well if you trace our current underfunding situation back to Tory austerity followed by the Brexit referendum being called due to Cameron’s fear of Farage and Farage being funded by Russia then yes. It’s Russia’s fault 🤭

[@venturestory8108]

YOU CANT PARK THERE MATE.

[@russcooke5671]

It’s just a bit of water Nothing to see here.

[@michaelotoo5543]

Would you buy one of these houses for 10k i wouldn't

[@ShoaibKhan-wv8zc]

I live in bolton there is no flooding

[@msmith5030]

Blame Starmer

[@Anson-g5w]

Can only say congratulations

[@ccccen]

I guess no more Palestine protest? A curse on UK for allowing such go on.

[@jimcazador6057]

What's new in Drizzle city, I lived there for 2 years in the early 2000s, the most depressing place of earth.

[@SamIAm_04]

Time for a swim!

[@MartinIreland-k8c]

Weather modification. Geoengineering

[@robhudson1501]

Ooh look there's a big puddle, let's declare it an emergency and squander the tax payers money!

[@philippe_de_rochambeau]

we don't get bored with the weather events, usually the English flood themselves with beer rather

[@ALLAHSARSE]

DRAINS BLOCKED .. FULL OF GODS KNOWS WHAT

[@НиколаМилутинович]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Deadbeat-k1l]

Just stop oil