One minute your house looks like this....
The next it looks like this!
How the hell does this happen? This lovely old 1840-ish house, known as Ackhurst Lodge in Chorley Lancashire is now under water.
One can but wonder how many times the poor building has flooded before. Surely this can't have been a 'first', unless the town planners had only recently got their planning wrong; and that wouldn't surprise me!
I can see a new development above on higher ground. Nature is often unforgiving.
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That is sad to see the grand old house submerged. What a mess to clean it and try to restore it.
Oh my, that is devastating. Hope it can be restored.
It must be devastating to see one's home flooded like this. Everything would be lost.
I cannot believe that this couldn't have been avoided somehow.
This looks deliberate. I suspect the council have not been clearing culverts or ditches. It also seems to be boarded up and empty. Maybe it's in the way of some grand scheme.
Follow the money for an answer.
Often planners fail to see the importance of natural water flow, and allow building almost anywhere. There's a classic example in my nearby town where a builder was allowed to install a septic tank soakaway, directly into the town's spring, which led to its ancient water fountain. The town had used the fountain for its drinking water since 1270, and now it has been closed. No municipal heads rolled.
Flooding is terrible all over Britain, many towns because of their situation by rivers are flooding into people's home, it is heart breaking especially in this time of Covid.
It's been raining overnight here, and there are pools of water on the lawn; but nothing like what I've seen, thank goodness.
What worries me about floods is the structure of houses. Stone and block built properties will fare much better than the lodge in the photo, or the cob houses in the south-west. I'd be worried about them getting wet and just collapsing.
This lovely little lodge is the entrance to a beautiful park ( Astley Park). We live fairly close by, and walk our dog there, we’ve often admired the house. It’s placed in a deep dip, such a shame
Flooding can certain undermine the foundations of any building. I wouldn't be surprised if the one above had to be completely rebuilt.
It's a cute little house; I hope it can be restsored.
'restored'.
I've been watching a US amateur on YT who gets about clearing out street drains when areas flood or start to flood. He loves watching whirlpools as water drains away. For a modest fee I can give anyone his name and contact details. Ok, his YT nick is 'post 10'.
That photo is plainly shocking.
Tragic to see an old property like that under water. Devastating for anyone whose home gets flooded.
Having your home flooded like that would be devastating to house and soul. How do you clean that up, get over the destruction of your property and how on earth on the English climate do you dry out the house.
Terrible
But where would the water drain to in a case like this?
I believe it also brought down the front of a row of terrace houses - terrifying as well as being soul-destroying for the occupants.
Awful, isn't it.
I don't know which is worse; fire or water?
It would ruin everything, in this case both downstairs and upstairs.
How ghastly, I hadn't heard about that.
That is truly lakeside property, or should I say lake-in property. With climate change, we are seeing more destructive weather.
So sad to see.
Lakeside, yes; under the lake, no!
Dreadful.
I've not seen a lot of news of the floods because Covid-19 seems to have knocked it off the top spot. Or perhaps I'm not watching enough news!
I wonder how much the New Development has endangered the most lovely home. This is so very sad !
Nor have I really, but I saw this in the paper, and was shocked. It's rare that you see a home flooded to above the upstairs windows.
This is what I was wondering. Nature doesn't like being messed with, and it looks like a big developement.
Global warming. As the ice melts water levels rise and those one in a 100 year floods are now much more common. So sad for a beautiful old tudor home.
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