I’ve been asked to repost this here. If you can help, please find the “Help For People Affected By Floods In ■■■■■■■■ facebook group and get in touch.
“hi all, i have put the feelers out and sent some emails but we really need truck drivers and their trucks please, we have large cages full of donations that need moving from homebase kingston to a storage facility which is yet to be confirmed and must be able to return cages, can anyone help with this please”
I think there is more than a possibility that ESL will be helping given the location, but I said I’d post anyway. I also realise they don’t know where the destination is yet, making this a slightly strange request.
SO - if any owner drivers in North ■■■■■■■ wouldn’t mind being on a standby list to be contacted, please get in touch via FB above.
Please call 07415783543 if you can help
ALSO they are looking for a truck from Clitheroe heading to Carlisle on Wed evening with a few pickups en route.
Cheers
Tim
Wet and Soggy Carlisle
I heard on Radio Two today that a shop that sells Christmas puddings that were preorderd,had its stock ruined on a lower or ground floor, sorry to be pedantic, but with ample warning of bad weather on the way, why didn’t they move the stock to a better facility.
Yep, I think so too. But I said I’d ask…
There is also Carlisle Haulage Express that one would imagine will have fewer biscuits to deliver than normal right now (with McVities flooded)
toby1234abc:
I heard on Radio Two today that a shop that sells Christmas puddings that were preorderd,had its stock ruined on a lower or ground floor, sorry to be pedantic, but with ample warning of bad weather on the way, why didn’t they move the stock to a better facility.
scrotumscratcher:
i woud assume that a large company like stobarts would be a better bet as they could absorb the cost and are local
they’ve probably got a unit in the paint shop all masked up and waiting for someone important from ■■■■■■■ to peg it so they can signwrite it all over it for some more pathetic advertising…is there anyone of any degree of importance in ■■■■■■■ anyway? apart from the stobrats?? and am I getting important mixed up with rich?
how important do you need to be before you get assassinated instead of just murdred? is there any criteria,or is it just at the whim of the media?
I’m very surprised Stobarts haven’t jumped on the publicity wagon for this yet and “donated” trucks, people and storage facilities in a “charitable” aka. “how wonderful are we” type of way.
Also not too sure about these flood disaster funding schemes that are appearing now and previously. I seem to remember the ones from the 2005 and 2009 floods had very few people actually claiming them vs the amount they had donated, and same with the clothes, food etc. Having lived around the area for much of my life, I know ■■■■■■■■■■ are pretty resilient in the most cases and the majority do have house insurance even in the previously flooded bits.
When Hull flooded in 2008 and again in 2013 no one cared (or noticed) and there certainly weren’t national campaigns to help people affected.
How lucky these people are to live in nice, important and affluent areas.
Yes, that is a chip on my shoulder.
My mate on days says there desperately short of trucks, so even though they’d be the first company in the que to help out any desperate and needy folks it’s just not possible
scrotumscratcher:
i woud assume that a large company like stobarts would be a better bet as they could absorb the cost and are local
I was talking to a Carlisle based Stobby driver today, he said they have basically done ■■■■ all.
Apparently they have water pumps for some old contract or another, but they are just sat in a shed, bear in mind they are the main sponsors of Carlisle Utd, the ground is waterlogged.
The firm that have made an attempt to help are Stalkers of Carlisle, they have been trying to recruit other local firms to help out also.
109LWB:
Nobody gave a rats behind when my area flooded in 2007 and we were without running water for 4 weeks cos the water treatment place flooded.
And it was so nice of them to donate the compensation we should have had to all the chavs who weren’t clever enough to buy house insurance.
After the last floods in Carlisle 10 yrs ago, and with the large insurance pay outs, no co. would insure any residents in the Warwick rd area in particular, so what were they supposed to do?
109LWB:
Nobody gave a rats behind when my area flooded in 2007 and we were without running water for 4 weeks cos the water treatment place flooded.
And it was so nice of them to donate the compensation we should have had to all the chavs who weren’t clever enough to buy house insurance.
After the last floods in Carlisle 10 yrs ago, and with the large insurance pay outs, no co. would insure any residents in the Warwick rd area in particular, so what were they supposed to do?
Didn’t the government bring in something that forced insurance companies to accept people from flood risk areas?
109LWB:
Nobody gave a rats behind when my area flooded in 2007 and we were without running water for 4 weeks cos the water treatment place flooded.
And it was so nice of them to donate the compensation we should have had to all the chavs who weren’t clever enough to buy house insurance.
After the last floods in Carlisle 10 yrs ago, and with the large insurance pay outs, no co. would insure any residents in the Warwick rd area in particular, so what were they supposed to do?
Didn’t the government bring in something that forced insurance companies to accept people from flood risk areas?
Yeh, ok, maybe I worded that wrongly, they would insure them but the cost was collossal, presumably to discourage them.
But this area hadn’t flooded before, these people would just rather spend thier benefits on cigarettes then protect thier posesions. Well, I should imagine most of thier posesions still belonged to Brighthouse, maybe that’s why they didn’t care.
Either way, hard working people like myself ended up footing the bill for them again.
109LWB:
Nobody gave a rats behind when my area flooded in 2007 and we were without running water for 4 weeks cos the water treatment place flooded.
And it was so nice of them to donate the compensation we should have had to all the chavs who weren’t clever enough to buy house insurance.
After the last floods in Carlisle 10 yrs ago, and with the large insurance pay outs, no co. would insure any residents in the Warwick rd area in particular, so what were they supposed to do?
Didn’t the government bring in something that forced insurance companies to accept people from flood risk areas?
Yeh, ok, maybe I worded that wrongly, they would insure them but the cost was collossal, presumably to discourage them.
IIRC the insurance companies got into bother for hiking premiums up to unaffordable levels and were instructed to keep them low for ten years. They got round this by ramping up the excess. It’s not unusual for people in my area to have flooding cover with an excess of £30k. Effectively, we’re not insured against flood.
I’m no longer insured. The 400 quid p/a it costs to insure my one bed flat is put into a savings account, to be used if I’m ever flooded again.
109LWB:
But this area hadn’t flooded before, these people would just rather spend thier benefits on cigarettes then protect thier posesions. Well, I should imagine most of thier posesions still belonged to Brighthouse, maybe that’s why they didn’t care.
Either way, hard working people like myself ended up footing the bill for them again.
If you mean Warwick rd mate it certainly DID flood last time.
A bit of a generalisation to imply they are all on benefits.
Afaik most of the houses in that area are privately owned, and desirable properties, owned by …‘hard working people’
Haven’t a scooby who or what Brighthouse is mate, you’ve got me there
