ecobob Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) While this is all going on. Please don’t forget the people of Lower Laxey, in particular the residents of Glen Road, most of whom who have lost everything. Not just the stuff from The metre + of the floodwaters but those who have been forced to remove everything from their upper floors too. Bedding, beds, clothes, carpets and furniture, all removed due to contamination from sewage spores. On Saturday and Sunday, four skips every half hour were dropped off and every one was filled in minutes People have lost their lives They went to bed a week last Monday thinking they were waking up to a normal week ahead only to find their houses full of flood water. Every single thing has gone from their houses while the drying operation takes place Its easy to forget, to move on from this week’s news to the next, but what has happened is a travesty for these people As the woman who spoke said, this was not a flood, this was incompetence Edited October 11, 2019 by ecobob 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 17 minutes ago, ecobob said: The questions that kept coming up time and time again were, ‘ what is the timescale? Is there an action plan for this? Will we be kept informed of the timescale for these works to be carried out? All these questions were diverted by responses of ‘we have to wait for the independent review. These timescales will be determined by the independent review, it’s too soon to give timescales’. That's taking liberties. Wait for an independent review? They're taking the piss. Is there a video of the meeting online anywhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 £500. that is what is being offered to the victims of the flood...well that will set them up ...really !!!!!! If it had happened abroad we would have been sending millions. Disgusting and miserly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 46 minutes ago, hissingsid said: £500. that is what is being offered to the victims of the flood...well that will set them up ...really !!!!!! If it had happened to farmers we would have been sending millions. Disgusting and miserly. Fixed.... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 22 minutes ago, Non-Believer said: Fixed.... Major landowning farmers, perhaps; certainly not all farmers. Plenty of poor buggers struggling on into old age making a pittance on rented farms who get bugger all from the government except grief from the pen pushers at DEFA. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 4 minutes ago, woolley said: Major landowning farmers, perhaps; certainly not all farmers. Plenty of poor buggers struggling on into old age making a pittance on rented farms who get bugger all from the government except grief from the pen pushers at DEFA. Any examples Wools...? Because I can think of one or two who used to struggle until the advent of CCS and its successors but since then have never looked back. Who will happily admit that they get far more now on acreage than they ever did on head of livestock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 10 minutes ago, Non-Believer said: Any examples Wools...? Because I can think of one or two who used to struggle until the advent of CCS and its successors but since then have never looked back. Who will happily admit that they get far more now on acreage than they ever did on head of livestock. I know 3 tenant farmers personally, although I wouldn't like to give details of identification. All past retirement age, 2 got out of dairy and sheep and now concentrate on beef because of diminishing returns and increasing costs. All have family who will not follow them into 24/7 hard work and increasing bureaucracy. It's a larger scale business nowadays, which I guess is inevitable. No help to those caught renting land and farmhouses who have been there all their lives and wonder where they will go and what will become of them when they become too decrepit for hard work. Hats off. I wouldn't do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDruid-3X3 Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Since seeing the Gardening YouTube, I checked on this and found this Manx Radio YouTube that is Very Informative about what is going on: 3X3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDruid-3X3 Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Wow! Flooding Damage in Douglas!: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDruid-3X3 Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 On 10/1/2019 at 3:05 AM, WTF said: tangent, as government/corpy provided the parking on douglas seafront and there are a lot of wrecked cars there do they have any liability in the matter? It is an Act of Nature. It is therefor Not Their Fault. But due to the fact that they are Providing A Service to these People, they are Required to Provide a Duty of Care to those Cars. Thus they should have some sort of Insurance from some Insurance Company such as Lloyds of London. So it should be from such Insurance Companies that Relief Benefits should be Paid Out. 3X3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhtred Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 What The Fuck is the Capital Letters thing Man? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manx Bean Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 Well, this puts a new complexion onto how our lot think, or don't. Here we have the Fat Controller claiming that £500 is the most they could justify. He then went on to suggest there were approximately 15 properties affected - so a bill of £7,500 assuring it is 15 and all of them claim. £7,500 is all they can justify? Really? Well, maybe an MHK reading this would like to tell us how much they "justify" on the Tynwald Banquet every year? How much they "justify" on accommodating, wining, dining and entertaining the visiting Tynwald Guests for Tynwald Week each year? Maybe they would like to justify Isle of Man Civil Servants spending nights in Douglas Hotels at the Taxpayers expense because apparently they cannot be expected to have to drive home after entertaining said guests? And these poor folk in Laxey have had their homes ruined and you can only justify £500 and a lot of pathetic excuses? Beneath pathetic. https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/flood-payment-of-500-as-much-as-government-could-justify/ 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Flint Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 5 grand would have been better 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 23 minutes ago, Derek Flint said: 5 grand would have been better And still an insult in real terms 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) 53 minutes ago, Derek Flint said: 5 grand would have been better Average to sort out flood damage is £30k per house according to RICS. ETA: based on 3--bedroom.properties. Edited October 15, 2019 by Albert Tatlock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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