T is the speed of flooding that is really afraid of Joseph Wilkins. Trailer’s happiness manager, an underground bar in Portobello Road in Notting Hill, witnessed no belief on Monday night because flood water rose from 2 inches to 1.5 feet in just five minutes.
Ten minutes later, the water is in the waist. “It’s like something from Titanic,” Wilkins said. “We have water flowing on us from all corners: from the hole on our floor to the ceiling, which is on the ground, and everywhere includes.”
Nearly three inches of rain hit the capital in 90 minutes on Monday night. Flood water poured the streets. In Taman Rayne, South London, the car was abandoned in 2 feet of water.
At Barnes Green, two men in swim swimming shorts when a park in Richmond was converted into a swimming pool. At Turnpike Lane, North London, people have to navigate water as heavy rain and launding roads.
In Portobello Road, Wilkins witnessed horror. “It was scary and the Biblical. One day the water bubbled from the Manhole hole, and the next furniture floated around the bar and the fridge fell to his side,” he said.
Mary Dhonau, a former CEO of the National Flood Forum and now an independent flood expert, said so much damage has been carried out on drainage and waste systems at risk of flooding – even those who live on the hill.
The cities need to undergo a “sponge transformation like a sponge”, he said. “We have done this to ourselves. We have opened the equivalent of 22 Hyde Park by digging our garden so we can park in it. We have built a super basis, we expect drainage and a sewer system of hundreds of years to overcome the increasing population size on a large scale, and of course there is climate change. “
Paul Cobbing, CEO is currently from the National Flood Forum, said the government must act to protect cities from flooding in the future. “Last year it was Norfolk. This year London and Peterborough. Next year – or tomorrow – it will be elsewhere. The central government must start a cross-sector approach to deal with this problem. We need to act.”
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