Flooding across the pond in Wales is making news today as residents watched defenses fail.
Rain in the UK has led to flooding in Northern Wales when the floods manged to avoid all the flood defenses in place within the Glasdir estate.
What's funny about this article is it outlines what seem to be very good Hazard mitigation techniques for avoiding such floods. Later on in the article it talks about all the regulations put in place, and that it is not normally a severly flooded area.
Another funny thing about the article and flooding is that the residents and property developers dont know how the flood got past their defense systems. Some hypothesize that the flood waters went around the defenes, other thing it was groundwater rising up, and yet other suggest that the defenses were simply not enough and the flood waters toppled over them.
No matter what the cause, the developers are interested in figuring out where they went wrong and fixing the system they have in place to keep instances liek this from happening again.
Normally we can critisize people for living in low areas and blame that on their property damages, but if this article is true, a lot of the property was supoosed to be well suited for flooding possibilities yet sustained damaged this past week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-20533926
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