Flood waters rising - some questions about people

[damian_steele]

Like most of you, I've been watching the stuff on the telly about the floods. At various times they've been showing people who've already been flooded, some who are flooded and some who expect to be flooded.

Now those whose homes are already under a few feet of water, it's too late for. Their stuff is wrecked and stinking. However, those whose belongings are about to get wet are raising a big question in my mind.

Why aren't people moving their belongings?

I've seen numerous places today where people are saying they've got a few inches of water in the house and they're expecting more, but their belongings - not just large stuff, but little portable things too - are still in exactly the same place now as they would have been before the flooding.

Why don't people carry stuff upstairs? Why are they leaving cupboards full of easily portable stuff at ground level?

Is the whole problem that they expect someone to come along and save them in the nick of time, so therefore they don't have to do anything for themselves?

Also, these people who've watched flood levels rising in the towns upstream from them. Why haven't they already stocked up with food and water etc? Why do so many people leave it until either the last minute or until it's too late to get supplies?

Somebody please explain why people do so little to help themselves because I really don't understand it.

[silkcityuk2]

Like most of you, I've been watching the stuff on the telly about the floods. At various times they've been showing people who've already been flooded, some who are flooded and some who expect to be flooded.

Now those whose homes are already under a few feet of water, it's too late for. Their stuff is wrecked and stinking. However, those whose belongings are about to get wet are raising a big question in my mind.

Why aren't people moving their belongings?

I've seen numerous places today where people are saying they've got a few inches of water in the house and they're expecting more, but their belongings - not just large stuff, but little portable things too - are still in exactly the same place now as they would have been before the flooding.

Why don't people carry stuff upstairs? Why are they leaving cupboards full of easily portable stuff at ground level?

Is the whole problem that they expect someone to come along and save them in the nick of time, so therefore they don't have to do anything for themselves?

Also, these people who've watched flood levels rising in the towns upstream from them. Why haven't they already stocked up with food and water etc? Why do so many people leave it until either the last minute or until it's too late to get supplies?

Somebody please explain why people do so little to help themselves because I really don't understand it.

greed for some of them.nice big insurance claim.
my problem is with the people buying houses in known high risk flood areas then moan about it when it happens or moan about the price of insurance

[damian_steele]

Bit like Floridians complaining that their houses have been hit by a hurricane?

[madelaine]

I have a friend whose house is an old one (very old) built in a flood plain. She has insurance which includes Pickfords arriving to pick up the heavy stuff from downstairs. They have a complete plan for moving the rest upstairs. This seems to me to be the only sensible way given where she lives.