Here in Selby we suffered during the "once in a hundred year event" in 2000. As a result the flood defences were built up and during this period we have had no flooding in the town despite the water levels exceeding those of 2000, in fact they were the highest ever recorded here.
So I am quite happy to report that some of us Oop North have benefited from decent flood defences.😊

I noticed an RN Sea King going to rescue stranded passengers on a bus in Scotland, good effort Gannet unfortunately won't be long before they are gone.

Royal Deeside hammered.
 

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Couldn't help noticing Mr Jeremy Corbyn expressing his sympathy to damp flood victims on TV yesterday. Nicola Sturgeon too, actually.

Presumably Nutloose is furious about this.

despicable ambulance chasers both of them......... ;)

Story about the people who helped out.
 

Volunteers as well, not pressed men. I'm quite impressed - well done the Royal Lancers. (Not Carlisle region, more the York area).


Soldiers who gave up Christmas break to help flood victims praised by Armed Forces Minister (From The Northern Echo)

Volunteers as well, not pressed men

Really, I'd love to believe it. But......being ex-military myself..........It's a shame the good Minister didn't come with goodie's. A 'stand down' The Lancers for a couple of weeks would have been nice. Seeing as overtime is a myth.All the same, Well Done The Lancers,

Surely "overtime" in any military outfit is a myth.
Apart from things like limiting flying and driving hours for safety reasons, you carry on until the job is done, or you fall asleep.
I do not imagine you clocked off on the Western froint, or more recently in Cyprus or the Falklands

The RNLI, Mountain Rescue and other groups working alongside certainly aren't being paid overtime. Or any salary at all, come to that.

The RNLI and MR etc are not obliged to turn out - they are volunteers (albeit very worthy volunteers). I myself am a volunteer in my local civil defence cadre here in France and turn out for them whenever I can.

It is a different sort of sacrifice to military who, when on rare occasions are ordered to turn out to supplement the civil defence forces, have no choice in the matter (even though they are usually very keen to help anyway). It is quite right that they should be compensated for their lost leave.

European countries are, for the most part, well managed and have a good balance between volunteer community spirit and state resources. If we regress to a system where there are no volunteers and no community spirit, we will be going backwards to the dismal levels of other parts of the world.