{"id":1832,"date":"2014-11-22T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbeylandsresidents.org.uk\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2022-02-16T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T09:36:04","slug":"no-high-street-is-an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/abbeylands\/no-high-street-is-an-island\/","title":{"rendered":"No High Street is an island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless water levels rise to more than 20m, which they won’t be anytime soon, our High Street should be\u00a0immune from flooding, or so you would think (check the dynamic graphic below from Climate Central that models a 10m rise). First off though, there’s a session being run by the Scottish Flood Forum<\/a>\u00a0in West Barns Village Hall on the 27th of November and then at the Methodist Church on the 9th December 2014. Insurance, protection and planning are all apparently going to be covered. Of particular interest to those who stay in low lying areas, by rivers and streams and definitely anyone with a beachside\/seaside property.<\/p>\n

Predictions of sea level rise of a\u00a0couple of metres are increasingly\u00a0plausible, and who knows when the next apocalyptic catastrophe will arise? Preparing for the worst seems to be the byword of the times, but I ask myself, exactly where am I to store all the sandbags that I will need? It is hard enough to deal with my growing recycling habits for which a new room\/shed is now required. My cellars are now hopelessly too wet, since the nice people at East Lothian Council neglectfully damaged the clay lining. It had lasted 200 years but the new street scheme several years back put paid to that.<\/p>\n