Q1 verbatim responses
eu regulations on productseg vacuum cleaners that are meant to be gree
dishonest lobby govt, over population and lack of investment
"unfairness of taxation of working families with one non-working parent"
1 europe; s scottish referendum; economy
membership of the european community/slavery in this country
political instabilty, future politics int he uk
disabled people losing money and not getting help
godlessness, neglect of vulnerable and neglect care
if you come from an ec country they seem to be fastrack in favour our people
overcrowding to many people in the country to run it well13
uk want to world power and make decisions
1)lack of direction 2)greed among the people
cost of education to the student and their family
scottish referendum, wages of mps, utility prices
the fanatics of the muslim destroying our way of life/scottish referendum
low interest and tax on savingsgovernments dont keep promises
wish people would take pride in out country
benefit system needs sorting out as some people are not bothered to work aND GET BENEFITS i WOULD BE A LOT BETTER OFF IF i DID NOT WORK
The government poltics making things worse
social well being . relationships with middle east companies
lack of adequate provision for future energy demand
construction shortage / skills. apathey of youthj
rise of neo-librilisim, chromisim within establisment.
infranstructure - keeping up with the rising population
europeanunion/also 3 parts of GB not pulling together
politicians not knowing what they r on about
the north being left out of political issues/ london taking priority
getting out of the european people not so many regulations from the government
same sex marriages//europe and the arab world
everything is overloaded with the population problems schools everything as over populated and we are a small island
lack of council spending/ too much beuroracy//
Lack of political engagement with youth ; iinequality
revue of constitution of uk, federal constitution, non exec head of starte
stop dgiving money to people who need it, eg food banks
standard of MPs not having been in real world/foreign policy
being taken over by religious extremists, weak government
Traffic on the road causing hazards - careless driving
individualism/i mean they all look to be entertained rather than love one another/lack of religion//
lack of environment locally too built up
government not looking after the POOR and DISABLED
Government help people with problems with floods
State of Politics.no manufacuring so now jobs growth. If u don't pay people to make things theres no consumer growth. Bad for our kids.
staying in europe or not/and scottish devolution//
this country is old fashioned/ scottish independence//
motoring costs for younger people regarding insurance
extreme parties eg. ukip, 2 ageing population. 3 common people being alienated from the politcal system
unsustainably low food prices,food miles, lack of domestic production,reliance on global market//
government playing psychological games with peoples heads
lack of decent political leadership and the youth belief and loss of good and tradition values and loss of morales
the government//we are too close to the us//
running out of resources of the planet 12 01
overpopulation 01 16 deterioration in manners
lack of community values and lack of strong leadership
ebola and lack of public transport in rural areas which particularly affects older people
we need a new form of politics - current parties not addressing this
envitonmental threats in general, hopelessness of politics, sense of insecurity generally
government not great, worried about UKip,
people copming to live here and taking benefits and not working
not enough help for people with domestic violence/
ebola, a change in the quality of the food
over population, too mcuh legislation(health and safety)
government not knowing whether ther coming or going
over population, food and energy security
fairness of wages in line with inflation
"government not listening to the people"
clear leadership; 16 moral erosion; 16 too much focus on self interest
environment/media ethics - in regard to the levinson enquiry - being part of a bigger curriculum/the eu debate - coverage of it is important
a lack of religous education, a lack of comunity, selfishnes
working population will not be able to support the non workers - not enough money for benefits - and thirdly not having respect for the environment
transport/government doing the right thing
"disconnect between political parties and the population"
"politics - disengagement of the people & lack of difference between the three main parties"
"discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots"
"energy supply/water supply - having fresh water"
overdevelopment of environment and lack of energy infrastructure
membership of the EU - we should leave immediately/-
lack of funding of ALL essential services/-
emotional crisis - too much self-centerdness because we are too used to having everything our own way /-

Q2 verbatim responses
parliamentary system and also values of society
dishonest lobby govt, over population and lack of investment
"population & infrastructure - power stations, motorways"
religious tensions; overcrowding; global warming
aging population/social inequality/diminishing role of the un in the qorld
over population.threats from abroad,the role of the uk
Dimishing of Church/lack of moral leadership
"result of Scotland referendum & food supply"
too bigger devide between the rich and poor
lack of morals for the future/ parenting and the lack of time spent with them /
ageing population fuel shortage /less wildlife
more police on the beat/ worried about police officer numbers going down / too much anti social behaviour
cost of energy/not producing enough food
unable to disaplin child in schools or home3
social mobilty, cost of providing social services.
envirmental, water supply. distibution of wealth
abuse of disabled people terisom right wing and nhs
constitutional re referendum on Scotland
inequality amongst society ; non engagement poliutical issues by youth
Personal Future/Husband' future health care when I am not around
kids never getting out in the sun and always being on computers
overcrowding, the gap between rich and poor
overcrowding in this country, weak government
Paying to park particularly at the hospital
i can see britain becoming a third world country
lack of environment, too built up, basically lack of space
decline in standard of liveing for most of the population.
the government and thecurrent system of government, dishonest policitians
population growth/and wages salaries not being high enough
demoracacy is a good thing however important decisions are not being made for example building houses
ageing population, energy management, the economy
obesity which links in with financing nhs
foreign policy especially wars and conflicts international relations
Ageing population, population getting too big
financial problems facing the government
obesity. Need to regain trust in political leaders
coping with being less important as a country in a world dominated by countries like China and India
there will be revolution but not sure what kind//
AGEING POPULATION, ENERGY SOURCES, POPULATION
keeping peace in this country and the world, world equality
landfill recycling / overpopulation of the island that is the uk
lack of infrastruture for number of people we have in country
over population, neglect and poverty of pensioners. Immigration (above) but more specifically loss of language and identity
lack of jobs, especially for young people
energy consumption/ carbon emissons/ disatisfaction of voters.
over population,not being self sufficient (food, oil running out
over population, food and energy security
"government not listening to people/ failure in democratic system nationally & locally"
"increase in population - people living longer"
muslims - the really right wing ones - and also overcrowding
interventionist policies and again, the environment
civil war between working and non working so lack of funds for benefits / thhirdly increased traffic on roads
social inequality especially regarding housing
16 "energy supply management /overpopulation"
"politics - disengagement and the three political parties being the same"
"overpopulation & finding new energy supplies to replace fossil fuels"
energy supplies / water management + supplies
water supplies / international relations
lack of funding for ALL public servicdes/-
emotional crisis - too many people still too self-centered/-
overpopulation from people living for longer /-

What first comes to mind when you hear the phrase 'climate change'?
that weather is going to change and the earth is warming up
i know its happening / but the reasons that are given for it i dont think are right
something to do with the jetstream / changed from hot to cool in the mornings and evvenings
not sure its just nature doing what it does.
its like negative thoughts aboout weather that could be harmful to humans
i think it is a misconception/to stop us using fossil fuel//
greenhouse gas / melting of polar caps / rising sea levels //
don't necessarily believe it, not convinced anything different happening.
a bit worrying / we seem to get more bad weather than nice
global warming - problems with hte ozone layer
global warming. what will happen to the world in the future
greenhouse gasses, fossil fuels and the green party
skeptical, no matter which science you listen to they incorrect modelling of climate change
the ice melting, the environment, mass extinction
all these natural disasters, more and more of them, tsunamis, floods
carbon emissions so many cars on the road
flooding,extreme weather events, chnges to the seasons
increase in rainfall, melting of polar ice caps, crop failures
changes to the normal weather patterns, more heavy rain and storms
floodings in cornwall, people i know that have been flooded that havent had these problems before / major catastrophies of the world, result of the way we treat the planet
extreme weather/ problems related to weather and it's effect on the environment
become warmer, more pollution, more wars everywhere, pollution related to war
polar bears dying and the ice melting/ozone holes
there is change no doubt but i am not sure if its a natural reaction or man made. also its an excuse to raise taxes//
nothing its always been fluctuating, natural, i think its just a con//
Global warming/climate going into extremes -toohot/drought
waste/lack of research into dangers/use of green energy generation
I think of television where such information generally comes from.
overall gradually change over time/ to temperature & climate/ice caps
controversal - personal belief that man is effecting it. ice caps melting
changing weather patterns/ damage to the ozone layer
melting of in the north and south poles/ deforestation
rubbish we are pumping out into the atmosphere other countries especially
the coast sea defences friends in Hemsby
it won't affect me too much but my grandchildren....
change in the seasons, tsunamis etc, violent hurricanes
not a lot, too much talking about it but definitely true.
how we are notreally doing enough to combat it. rising sea waters, melting glaciers.
not proven tob man made. ued to justify expensive solutions that make emmision Co2 worse.
the fluantuation of the climate.The variation of changes in climate.
environment, are we affected, can we change it
its getting warmer.. its happening... its happened over millions of years, warm and cold... humans do have an impact
carbon dioxide/melting ice caps/rising water levels//
man made impact on the environment/fracking/man made impacts//
It brings to mind that music video that Micael Jackson did with the animals dying - and the polar bears - the effect on nature itself.
man made pollution affecting ozone layer
the destruction of the environment/the defrorestation of the amazon and the ice poles melting/floods/and hurricanes/ the extreme weather getting worse/the loss of fauna/overpopulation of the fishing/
gobal warming and changes in weather/ the damage to the future
global warming/the ice caps are melting because the climate is getting warmer/effecting the ozone layer which is going thinner/more rain and less sunshine
man made climate change/considerable risk to the future of cilivation in the next 5p 0 100 yrs/rise of global inequality
obviously the weather and the global warming
sea levels rising, getting warmer the globe
global warming/co2/we have to do less co2/a lot depends on the people as well
too many cars/causing pollution and using up fossil fuels
getting hotter in summer and weather is changeable/not sure whether this is climate change
its because of too much rain and severe storms happening in the world, damage to properties.
global warming.harsher winters. more rains.not really hot summers
cliamte changer is been going on for centuries .man not helping stitution .
concerned the evidence is stacking up for it but its definielty a concern
well i like the warmth so im quite happy to have the warmth, i think its all our fault becuaes of the damage we are doing on the surface
well i know we are supposed to say oh the summers are getting longer but its all the sprays that go into the air and polluting it
global warming/flooding/cost of fuels gas electricty/coastal errosion
i ASSOCIATE IT WITH GREENHOUSE GASSES, MELTING OF THE ICE CAPS , FLOODING ETC
thinking about the rain foreest beeing decimated etc
Doom and gloom, I am worried about climate change for future generations.
melting ice temperature rising and bad weather uncertainty
the planet goes through a natural process of climate change
the country getting warmer/extreme weather
the likes of china abuse it/it wont make big changes in uk
We keep hearing that the weather will be getting warmer
More rain and it's getting a bit warmer sometimes.
alot of problems really with ice, and the weather changning and what have you
alaska, well i did live there so its things like melting glaciers and rising sea levels and threat to habitation both human and wildlife
i dont know whether they are right or wrong, im 50 50 0n that , some say there is, some say there isnt, its for the future generation really that is
thats the weather and its going to be hot now
summer/seasons/used to know what they were/ now all over the place
wind farms and what a waste of space they are/flood issue in this area which are caused by the environment agency giving greater precedent to the environment rather than people
too many do gooders who don't know what they are talking about/i believe climate change has been going on for a long time
irreversable change which we will not be able to change/we will get to a point that whatever we do we will not be able to fix it
cars cause a lot of climate change with emmissions//
weather warmin g to previous years. Less cold winter. Less snow. More rain
global warming/temperture rise of seas/deforrestation/loss of biodiversity/loss of medication effcts of nature/population growth
changes in weather patterns/frak weather/co2 emissionns by industry and power generatiom
global warming/change in tides/water or sea level rising/drainge of water
deniers saying it is not happeningnot doing enough to prevent gw/people not doing enough
Goverments wont listen - I was a member of greenpeace in 60's/ Bunch of nutters/ Recycling /Flooding, castashtrophies/so arrogant -they dont listen to eldery
the effect on weather - rising sea levels
does it really exist or do we make it up?
will affect vegetatian and seasons changing
not convinced of the causes of climate change
rising sea levels increased extremes in weather
reducing enercy use/ reducing carbon emmisions and using less natural resources
flooding particualrly last year and the damage it caused
everything changes in good ways and bad ways
polar bears/nice summer this year so more hot weather and rain
it's not my first thought regarding issues
Only because the States have so many videos about drinking water - I would think water.//
Down here the weather's been worse but where we come in London the weather's been hotter.
flooding/severe winters/severe winds and gales
seasons not being the way they should be, cant predict anything//
things getting hotter getting more rain floods//
changing temperature and differences in weather pattern
pollution and impact of what we abuse the environment
They say that the ice cap is melting - more flooding and animal exstition
temperature rising they say but as yet we have seen nothinbg of it. the vlimate goes thro as series of changes by iteself over a period of time
weather the way the seasons are at the minute
I ponder whether climate change is a new phebnemone or whether it has been in existence since the world began
controlling the ozone and looking for alternative formss of providing electricity and gas/the effects of using cars and planes and pollution
swings and roundabouts/it is difficult to say for definite that what we are experiencing today has not happened before and will not happen again/but at a greater accelerated rate due to industrialisation
not as big a deal as everyone thinks/a lot of people hear one side of the argument, and many people are quite impassioned about it without hearing both sides/it goes both ways/some people think it is the end of the world and some poeple think it is not an issue
unknown - one minute you hear one thing then something else//
pain in the arse. doesnt particularly interest me...
unproven/p/actually thats not what, it is an issue that people discuss my personal view is natural cycle/p/inevitable//
To me it's a lot of rubbish to be quite honest.//
Climate change means rising sea levels.//
Probably industrialisation - rising sea levels and the greenhouse effect.//
Not a lot. One person can't make a difference and unless the 62 million people in the UK stick togethner it's not going to do nothing.//
global warming e.g. very hot in the summer months in the usa a lot more drought
unusual weather conditions droughts and floods rise in sea levels
environment warming up and ice caps melting
The news tells us there is climate change but I think it has always been there
I think there are more changes in the weather pattern - either too hot or too wet
distruation and sanamee huricanin natural cathaterafy
global warming temperature rising and freak clikmate flooding heath waves storms
not convinced - looking at history the dreadful spring wasnt due to cc - I could be wrong though
its always been going on - the world is warming atg the moment - whether we need to physically do anything is moot - the ozone is now starting ting self repair after 30 years
diesel cars, petrol, smoking, our lifestyle
you worry - this time of year we were having scraping ice off the windscreenswhen wwe were kids.
I dont beleive it is man made / i know we're adding co2 but it happens anyway.
global warmiong / unexpected weather / losing the maldives, melting ice caps
flooding greenhouse effect/ global warming
Waste of money. all climate changes they talk of are quite insignificant
how differnt the climate will become before what it used to be
me personal having been flood victim - flooding
concern. what is the difference between the realism and the skeptism. Evidence of polar ice cap shrinking
all of the storms and outlandish conditions due to the way the earth has been abused disrupting thye eco system
could do with more sunshine but we don't do too badly
dont believe it, think its a natural cycle
caused by excess use of petrol and diesel, eroding and blocking off the sun
load of rubbish, you dont know if its summer or winter , weather changes more quickley
heard it all before, only have to look into history, sun has times when heating up and cooling down, i think that effects our climate
different things - I'm not clear on it - seasons changing, ice floes melting
false reports about polar bears dying - David Bellamy gor kicked off the panel because he disagreed - we're seeing 200 year weather cycles
apparent increasing temperature in this country/inevitable effect going to a more continental climate
gets too hoy environmental issues flooding
poi[[Release of money and taking it seriously
We've always had climate change - otherwise we'd never had the Ice Ages.
questions: is it or is it not happening?
weather, wetter more, colder and longer winters
bad wether change all of a sudden/heavey rain/snow/all unexpected/without seasons//
oil. Has oil exploration and burning fossil fuels.
try and solve theb crime and make sure the teach the coming children managers and everything
too many peopleand few housing to meet the demands. plus housing prices are to high for the young generation to buy their own
its the extreme changing of weather /the climate id said to be changing all over the world //
its the start of the planet changing / there will be more and more natural disasters / frek storms etc
more hot weather they tell us but more freak weather i think
money been wasted on trying to improve climate change and i feel britain only seems to abide and opther countries dont
changes in the weather, the long term indications of it.
as an engineer. climate change has been going on - earths climate is always changing. I dont 100% believe in climate change. biggest producer of greenhouse gases is animals.
advers weather/out of season/summer goes on pass winter//
hm, extremes of hot and cold, i suppose yes/p/well the melting of the icecaps and um survivability, yes of the human race//
its on its way, its underway/p/its not being address seriously/p//
nothing really people cant make their mind up too many different stories
something that you see on the news all the time, increased flooding, building on flood plains in the wrong areas, not enough land available
global warming, thats whats happening now anyway
redefinition is the first word that comes to my mind
it would make it difficult if there are big changes to the weather/we ten to import food from somewhere else if we havent got it/ people do not think about it/-
hot weather/snow in the summer/weather is changing/atmospherical conditions prevailing at the time of impact/-
melting snow and icecaps and dying polar bears/-
hotter summers/progessively hotter whihc make a difference to crops and food sypply/lots of flooding we never used to have/-
Umm the ozone layer - I mean global warming, whatever it is.
Well - smog,dirt ,exhaust fumes,industrial waste,etcetera.//
Well if it's anything like we had at the beginning of the year -devastation./And also because of the governemt not having much money to sort things out.//
its always changing, nature is in charge
they talk about it alot but i dont think there really is any
what are they talking about but i dont think there is any climate change
that its an issue that needs to be addressed
global warming and change of the weather/-
water / iknow nothing else aprt from the effect of it
for me it is n europe and melting ice caps/
concern that there is not enough being done about it and it is not accepted by some people
antaRTICA, THATS WHAT THEY TELL YOU IN SCHOOL
its going to happen but its happenened before
global warming pollution saving energy carbon gases
a band wagon a lot of people have jumped on
worrying about it/not much has been done about it
well global warming, increase of planet's overall temperature, icecaps melting, extinction of animals/p/greenhouse gases//
That we are not looking after our environment
I am not convincxed that there is such a happening
climate getting warmer and it will change
unpredictable weather/snow in summer/heavy rail in winter etc//
yourweather and how it weill affect my country
storms /important infrasructure being destroyed /
too many cars and pollution and too many factories//
I don't who to believe first it is goin g to be cold & then warm
worriede about people too much pollution p.
iceberg melt in the antartic and it could cause flooding
amount of carbon emmissions in the atmosphere
dont think we have gota climate change, weve always had these seasons
our weather, how it is dramiticaaly changing
rainforests and fat cats making money from oil
seems to be a lot of ice caps melting. polloution.
could well be a problem in the future/over emphasised a few years ago when there were a lot of panic over global warming/I don't think it has increased to the degree they said it would/it will get worse particularly with china and india and USA as they dont seem to be doing what they should and could to avoid the global warming//
It will lead to more extreme weather events
sea levels rising/ice caps melting/more extreme weather
rising sea levels/reduction in polar ice caps and pressure on world food resources.
Global warming, starvation, melting icecaps, deforestation
the weather has gone crazy, you don't know if it's summer or winter, it could be caused by all the satellites they keep sending up
the polar ice cap is melting AS the earth is getting warmer
global warming and extreme climate conditions around the world
GLOBAL WARMING environmenTal issues like pollution and carbon emissions causing pollution and bringing about climate change
global warming/p/more extreme weather, flooding, warmer summers, wetter weather/p//
thunder and lighting /is definitely happening /
the change in weather, the effect of humans on the planet
increasing abient temperature which brings adverse weather conditions
if it happens it happens/one ofthethings the Prime Minister cannot change
earth is heating up seas are getting warmer
Global warming & how it will effect us in the future
changing weather pttern effecting the environment
Hiper over done - trying to do things in this country when other countries don't bother
to do with the environment weather icebergs
it has got a lot to do with people not recycling etc
scary tsunamis earthquakes tornadoes in tv
loss of the bplanet as a safe enviroment as we know it
a sigh due the people that are convinced it is not happening
misunderstanding by the majority of people who think it's going to get warmer
rise in temperature which will affect ability to produce food and water availability
CONFUSION/lack of analytical discussion/become politicised
Godwillnot the world implode due to climate change
human induced changes in climate such as temperature
ozone layer using things we shouldnt be using dont care
I don't think we can alter it that much because disasters happen & are mostly natural volcanoes erupting sometimes natural disasters!
global wamring issues associated with fossil fuel use
i can't understand how people can't accept that it's happening
It s nature int it - natures tellin u summat winters/summers different
the weather/the condition of the planet and destruction of it
there is not enough evidence what is factual and what is not
everything messed up and caused by human activity of is this a natural process
its getting warmer/its getting colder/but in another way i dont believe/when i was a teenager the weather was the same
irritation and anger because it is a natural process. e can do things to improve but i do belive there is a lot of scaremongering
climate change is a title for everything alot of it is to do with humans, evolution and man made
we are gooing to have more problems that we are going have to deal with them ana we need stategies for deal with it
green house effects gobal warming environmental disarters
a lot of people making a lot money e.g. wind turbines
waste of energy which results in climate change
during the summer high temperatures the seasonsa are no longer balanced
i usually have a giggle because im not sure really/-
to my mind the lenght of time it takes for the natural world to change is a long term process
change in the weather does it mean the same thing to eveybody i dont quite understand
basically tend to think the weather will get hotter and more extremes
idk the globe has had climate change for millenia not sure in victorian times chimneys belching out man has perhaps increased things and pushed it a little bit more the car the planes man is not completely to blamewhen the planet kilters is not in orbit thats not to do with man
a change in the weather/ ice poles melting/ flooding//
change in the weather over time and change in cimate
ah...dekniatsim and people not believing
changes of the weather, more extreme weather
oh no/ something that a lot of people are ignoring//
Something to do withthe break down of ozone layer
icebergs melting in the antartic and rising water/ flooding
its sunshine warm and its the end os september . seasons are going back to front
variation in the earths current climatic conditions
extreme wewather conditions more abnormal weather
disaster! concern about the loss of species and we are sleep walking towards disaster
lack of understanding about what it is and its impact
Until the emerging economies stop polluting the world, any remedies taken by the rest of the world are rather futile
If everybody did their bit there would be no problems but the world generally seems to sort itself out
a lot of bullshit.its happening, i dont accept what people say is the cause/too much fuss about greenhouse gases/ we will have to limit but we wont reverse it//
i believe its part of the cycle of life, maybe can slow it down but not stop it //
there at it again/quite often things prove to be wrong we don't pay attention to nature. climate change goes in a cycle//
Grandchildren and future generations becuase of extream weather conditions which controls floods , crop production etc
the weather not being seasonal autumn is more like summer
pollution and the environment and global warming
the politicians talking about it a lot and global warming
we're all doomed/the importance of is super important and it's something that affects all of us and it's something that isn't always taken that seriously//
lot of political jargon need more education
tax / we are not helping the environment/ we need to do something / but an excuse to raise taxes
i think the uk can do little about it / renewable energy could help but other countries like china arent doing anything// so it will happen anyway
a rude word, no i disagree, i cant say what i think because it begins with a b, i think it s a load of rubbish
well dunno really, i know theres all this about it breaking up, all the artic and that and all the snow and ice
change in the climate, hot summers, not even wet winters its unseasonable weather patterns
basically for me personally the effect on marine life/p/just unseasonal temperatures//
emissions in the air global warming things like that/p//
the seasons are disfunctional and you notice it more living down in the south and near the sea, which is where I've been for 17 years//
it does happen but I don't think that these recent storms are climate change necessarily, they're just fluctuations//
it's a big issue, some people say that there isn't any such thing, some people say that's it's all man made; it's somewhere between those two things I think, combination of human activity and things like the Gulf Stream, melting, jet streams - a lot of different things//
cars, exhausts, the atmosphere, acid rain, cutting down all the trees//
people trying to frighten u i do not believe it we have always had storms and flooding over the years
more floods throughout the world the ice caps melting
one extreme to the other - a lot of rain - we do not have seasons that we used to have -
the seasons are not right - in October you would expect it to be cold and it is sunny
Increase in temperatures - global warning
You cant distinguish the seasons anymore.
people dont care about the bigger picture and other people and the environment//
it makes me think we are being fooled/climate change has always occurred//
struggle between people not believeing it and people who do/ facing the issue now and not in 10 years//
i do believe it but i dont go along with all their policies, been happening for thousands years//
ice cap is melting /recognising facts instead of hype /
why does the uk bother when other countries do nothing
more extremes of weather ie hotter summers and wetter winters
freaky weather/sun in september and october
the environment/it is getting worse becoming more severe by ice melting and weater becomes more extremen through the seaons
due to lack of atmosphere/the atmosphere is being destroyed by carbon dioxide/too much carbon produced into the atmosphere//
the water levels rising/from the ice caps melting//
the ozone layer/i think it is getting thinner but apparently it is not as bad as they say it is. they say it is starting to repair itself, hopefully/which means that climate change will slow/ the seasons seem to have changed like at the moment it is very warm for oCTOBER /YOU CAN never judge how rainy it is going to be the rainfall is all over the place//
popularist view, hot summer, freezing winters, biblical flooding, melting of the ice cap, dissapearance of speicies.
changing of seasons, which is pretty notable already
GETING WORSE OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS / ICE CAP MELTING
not enough sun poor winters with hardly any snow. winters are not what they should be
its been going on forever. the mounting of the icecaps which will cause major flooding. it does not necessarily say it will get warmer. Find another alternative to fossil fules / petrol.
very up and down - the promises should be met more - things to get done what are promised
are we going to have nicer weather. Getting colder.
never ending cycle /not keeping up with climate /
polar bears /ice cap melting /bees disappearing /
walruses colony on alaska on the beach because their habitat has become reduced//
global warming and ice caps melting and flooding//
global warming. different weather systems
china and india not following the Kyoto agreement and USA
weather whemn i was younger summer was summer and winter was winter
people are cutting down trees more than planting them//
changing climate/colder and ice caps melting and trees being cut down/ozone althought it is growing back slowly
global warming/seasons are changing and we get a lot of flooding/the polar caps are melting and there is pollution from cars
the world goes through cooling and heating phases
evidence is badly -presnted by both camps. It's become a religion not of a science. whether it's man-made is questionable. If it's not man-made then we're throwing money for nothing. Whether it makes any difference is questionable.
i would say this is probably about the 5000ths out of 4999, in other words this is the next one out of 1000s
em the months of the years, the climates, they are all changing,
whole range of things/the extremes of weather and sort of mitigation, carbon reduction
hot weather, storms, rising sea levels, melting ice
global warming sea levels rising worse weather
global warming changing weather patterns
beware because people think it wont affect them and isnt there//
temperatures getting higher/melting ice cap and some species dying/air pollution.//
ozonne layer being affected by industrialization in countries like China
warming up of the atmosphere which alters the climate
The planet warming up/suffering now because we have taken advantage of the natural sources we have
chaNGE IN THE WEATHER THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
melting of ice caps/burning fossil fuels and these are making it worse/also the extremes of weather
changing in weather systems in the world
changing environment probably caused by huamn behaviour
i guess heat and like weather gettign genrallyhotter
weather changes/changes to the sea/shinking of the artic/the changes to the gulf stream
not reguarding whast were using up. people take for granted
Change in patterns with the weather seasons
ways to stop it happening, renewable energy
oh god increasing temperature/ rising seas
if its got to be its got to be. russia, china and india arent bothered so why should we/becausse they have got pollutionover there to the extent that people wear masks on their faces//
it rains a lot. we live on a hill and we actually got flooded //
global warming/the changes in the envirnoment due to a number of things. obviously the weather is changing. winters are hard and summers are non-exdistant. the ice caps melting //
more extremes of climate/there seems to be more extremes//
certainly the weather and the change in the weather throughout the whole world
i don't really believe it i think the world is doing what it has done for the last thousand years - it's just evolving
wind turbines - i hate them - they are supposed to be good but they are inefficient machines
resignastion, acceptance and depression. helplessness
global warming, heavy downpours, seasons blending together
is it going tp be something serious or not so something
polution ice caps melting gen warming climate
Ice caps melting more wazter less land more rain
Greenhouse Gasses which are causing the collapse of poles
windfarms / a complete and utter waste of time
amount of cars on the road/emissions/most households have 2 cars or more //
government. They are sucking the earth of its natural resources to make money...
i dont believe it for a start. i dont believe its man made
living near the coast like this it is the weather changes, we've had some bigger storms here than I've ever seen before. THinking worldwide, it's things like the drying up of lakes that hasn't happened before, and you think is this just the way the world is evolving or is it climate change, everyone is telling us it's climate change//
is the climate going to get better or worse, it could be either way couldn't it these days, when you see some of the issues//
supposed to be the ozone layere depleting
thev seasons being out of sync war,mer winters
i used to be really concerned but am not so bothred nowadays
WEATHER CHANGING ADVERDSE AFFECTS ON AGRICULTURE
we do not weatther seasons any more. Weather is more up and down
global warming- dangerous and quite misunderstood
It has changed hasn't it. we have never had rain like we had this year, have we. the noise was terrible, quite frightening actually.
Don't take it seriously because i think it's a phrase that gets bandied about without good reason; think they're not quite sure themselves about the reality of it.. We deparate our waste into 6 boxes and then read that it gets all mixed up at the tip. Russia, China and America are the biggest polluters. Shouldn't come up with plastic products for examplwe until we have discovered a way of dealing with them after use.
The fact that it is changing. Not enough oxygen in the atmosphere. Pollution.
A lot of vested interests. If I was selling wind turbines I would be in favour of people hearing about it.
Natural. i don't believe it is man made...natural cycles of the earth. Romans growing vines on Hadrian's Wall. I learned about it at school.
warmer winters and big spiders, flooding snowstorms//
in school to think of damaging the ozonw kayer/
i am not sure how much I buy into it but I do think it is changing/
wind and rain/the threat to living conditions/flooding and coastal erosion
man has interfered too much with earh and outer space
the summers are not the same any more everything is changing
too little too late. weve gone beyond a point of return, we cant stop it now but we should still carry on trying...
WEATHER CHANGING, THE PLACE GETTING HOTTER, RECYCLING
less predictable weather, greater extremes
Polluting the air & that consequences of what we are doing with the weather
Think we are in a cycle not really convinced its what we are doing
I suppose polar ice caps melting, the image of a single polar bear stranded on a melting ice cap.
Rising sea levels swamping low lying islands.
man made opollution has excellerated it tremendously
Flooding and if things are getting warmer, coast line erosion
its going to be freezing, i doubt we we will have a heatwave
the ice sheets that are being lost, the CO2 emmisions and how that impacts on not letting the heat out of the atmosphere, the rainfall. Everything that goes with the climate which is unstoppable really isn't it. Also a lot of people's happiness is related to the weather. Also winters need to be cold for farmers because it kills the bugs and pests which ruin the crops. Also with food getting exported how is this going to effect us in Britain?//
distortion of food production and consumption//
global warming/the political agenda, as per right and left wing, and how different sides present the argument, especially in america where you get the pseudo-science argument that it is or it isn't. I think there's no doubt that we are having an effect on the climate, but there's some degree of uncertainty but the scientific consensus is that it's caused mainly by developed countries who are consuming hydro-carbons//
the beautiful summers we had when we were kids
something that needs to be dealt with now/ tidal technology
I do not think that Climate Change isanything new/part of evolution.
the way the arctic ice cap is melting and changes in the weather such as droughts
the need to work more with natural resources
i dont believe it, actually i do beleive it but i think it is natural rather than manmade
it wont work because its not up to man to change the climate it will be done by the creator himself//
the sea levels rising/it just remindse of the antarctic, all the ice melting, penguins dieing//
the storms last year but also the effect on wildlife, I am also very interested in brids and also the impact on fisheries and sea life and the brid life which is associated with this//
the climate's always changed, the computer predictions that they made fifteen years ago haven't come about yet if you listened to the BBC all the time you wouldn't know that//
adverse weather, or extreme weather. but then you look back in history and we've always had extreme weather to a degree, in history. you just don't really know with it these days, only time iwll tell. you don't seem to be able to rely on the seasons//
global warming/sea levels rising/changing weather patterns
global warming/people not caring for the planet
sceptical of the extreme/there are changes in weather anyway/
To do with industrial pollution from large industry
it changes throughout the ages and is not as big an issues as is made out and we do not have much control over it
the weather is changing with variable seasons even in one day
have we made enough preparation how preparede areif and when it happaens
ridiculous its nature changing nature is never static and never will be.
world climate and the changes and extremes
changes in weather patterns, flooding, unpredictable weather
temperature change / global warming change /-
climate is always changing - its a cyclical thing - the earth has always gone through patterns of cold and warmth/-
flooding / having to think of moving up all of the time, it reaches up to our garden when it floods in our street [house located in road adjacent to the river severn] .../-
Weather we are getting here and in the world and the icecaps, extreme weather
making a mess of the world/too many emissions
ive worked with climate change in adept of environmental sciences/a cased of convincing people that global warming is real
no thing/its getting warmer its gonna melt the ice
more taxes for cliamte change.it just disappears.
What people do about it or the lack of action
weather/ global warming/change of seasons//
not much change not so cold in the winters
the weather/it has a big effect on the whole environment but mostly the weather
extreme weather conditions warmer winter and colder summer reverse//
warmer winter, cold summer, flooding snowstorm
People need to be organised to deal with these issues.
Gloib al Warming ; Greenhouse gases ; ice caps melting ; changeable weather
world heating up; extreme weather; tsunami
probably the products which are creating problems
umm errr displacement of people, people suffering form a gfolbalised system where they have no choice. a lack of involvement in whats going on.
yes umm it obviously afects everything and every body, you can tell just by our weather the seasons are chaning
global warming, pollution in the air I guess.
climate change is I oh dear its all to with really I belive climate change is over time, theres always been climate change and now people study the effect sthat man has on cliimate.
hahaha a lot comes to mimnd but I think that there is a little tto much pu tinot it. IF you look back in history the Thames has frozen over when we came in to a cold peeriod.
probably how it has affected me and what I have noticesdint he past 3 years. Winter becoming warmer and wetter.
people that know alot about it and I dont believe a word they are telling me.
increased unpredicatability, we dont really know, just something drastic
its inevitable, we create climate change, all over the world.... the world wil;l turn back into a desert in a 1000 years
global warming, is it climate change or is it just the earth rotating...?
its always been happening, its never been stable, we've had mini ice ages and temperatures higher than normal. i think global warming, you get conflicvting reports about the ice caps melting....
the weather getting hotter or colder, either way
worrying whats going to happen in the futere, i dont think enough's being done to ecourage people to change...
owww not again, climate has changed over the years
too much being pulled apart, planes flying too much, sending rocket up too frequently
iceburge melting and polor bear being drowned, and chiopping the brazilian rainforest down
greed/people dont think to think what they are doing
high much is exagerated and how is natural /
is good for us becuase we enjoy the good weathers
rubbish/remember fog and horrible climate/now climate much better but they are still going on about problems
change in the wather/less long hot summers and no big snows in winter
position of the sun now or the axes of the earth
you think of how, on a personl level, how its changing, you get extremes of weather. you are made aware of it by the media as well. pictures of pola ice caps melting and stuff on the raido. the green house effect, the ozone layer and risinf sea levels~
rising water levels / sea levels still going /
terrible change that results in destruction to prperty and lives
re-cyclingdo we do enough recylying /cutting down on the use of cars and fuel
the melting of the icebergs in iceland and alaska/flooding/i know there is more percentage of sea than land/and flooding in other areas which are quite close
greenhouse effect/bruning of fossil fuels/the ozone layer diminishing
i don;t really believe in it/the weather has changed over the years/hot and cold/the climate changes over the years naturally
weather/affecting the weather in the future
the weather / when i was a kid summer was summer and winter was winter now you dont know where you are
going to get warmer / places might disappear due to rising water levels
water, flooding, having lived on somerset levels before
rise in the oceans, extremes in weather which we have already seen, not being prepared for it, and nobody seems to want to do anything about it
my grandson, he is studying geoghraphy in stoke, and he thinks there is no such thing as climate change
the argument if there is global warming or not
polar ice caps melting/the fact that it's still sunny often in October is quite strange//
bit upside down at the moment as regards seasons /
climates changing whole time anyways. unpredictablre weather patterns
the world has been through too many climate change but places like china and america are not helping/think we have left it too late
we were environment students/uncertainty with regard to climate change
climate deniers/scientific manipulation/lack of govt response/failure of us govt to engage with it/australian responses giving bad precendence
global warming . greenhouse gases , ice bergs melting
what we need to do on a local and national level and as an individual to help.
I suppose it's the deterioration of how the weather's getting colder or there's more storms.//
The hole in the wall underneath the railway line and the fact that Mendenhall glacier in Juneau Alaska has retreated by a trmendous amount.//
A degree ofr scaremongering - I think there is an issue in terms of climate change but I'm not convinced that we have a true understanding of the picture.//
well sometimes i think they go abit ott with that cos crikey when we were kids you could still get very hot summers and really cold winters, but as for the oceans, well they are rising,
that we really need to do something about it, and i dont think that the nations of the world are working together adequately to deal with the problem
environmental temperature changes, watweer levels, food scarcity
debate; snow caps; fracking; flooding; local flooding risk due to building
Y ffordd o fyw sydd wedi datblygu yn dibynnu ar ddefnyddio ole ac yn llygru`r blanet
Global warning/Pollution/You can see the difference in the weather/ The weather the climate/ Compare to five years ago, the weather is getting/ Sea levels are incresing//
Global Warming/Sea level rises/Melting icecaps/Glaciers/Rainforest loss/desertification/deserts/It will affect glaciers because for every one of 100 meters you loss one celsius go up, so if the atmosphere warms by 1 degree celsius/ the glaciers will melt back by an average of a hundred meters. Thats why the melt righ, because if the air temperature rises then the ice melts/ the floods and the seas and the sea levels rises/ you can tell by the level of the sea water just how high the sea levels has been//
Probaly the seasonal adjustments/ the winter has been more wintering/ flooding/ the summer has been m ore dryer//
Not very important/ its coming and going//
Raiing sea levels/more rain/ melting of the ice/ Increased temperature//
extremes of weather / rainfall heavier / flooding / heavier snowfall / longer freezes / hotter summers
ita a natural phenomenon that has been going on through the ages
if we dont cooperate with the environment things will get worse / weather systems
the environmenrt chanfging its getting warmer
the effect of co2 - massive manmade production of co2
boring /really do have Ito hear about it again
skeptisum, having a background in geology you know that climate does change
its always been changing, changing since the iceage. we've always had climate change
i think of poollutants being sent into the environment destryoing the ozone layer resulting in increase in temperature worldwide
climate tending to get warmer and wetter here
people dont give a damn about the environment
out of place house building and cutting down trees
manipulation/for me it's the greed of man which is basically destroying the planet, they're mining everything out of it, chopping everything down, putting gases into the air. It's bound to have some effects, we're disturbing the balances of nature, taking everything out and putting nothing back//
World strife if it's allowed to continue.//
The Gulf Stream and the consequences of it slowing down , stopping.//
Coal-fired power stations./Pollution from car enginews and the lack of regenerating electricity.//
flooding we have recently /nice to have more natural energy sources /
weather/it's just a worry, I think the weather is definitely changing, and I think it's because the polar caps are melting and then if the sea warms up we're going to be in a bit of a crisis really//
people not recycling, we've all got to look after our environment haven't we?//
rising sea levels/glaciers melting and the arctic//
melting ice caps, and locally, how much will the sea level rise?
scandal of falsification of emails regarding climate studies
global warming ice caps receding we will get wetter
weather are we getting more rain and climate differences
dont really believe it, its happened before in our lifetime and it will happen again./ its just another thing to make us pay more money / it used to be warm back when we were kids /-
temerature of the overall atmosphere - the world, temperature wise./-
peoples inability to respond to it appropriately/-
melting ice in the artic - rising sea levels

Why are you more/ less concerned about climate change than you were 12 months ago?
we had more freak weather recently and the floods that happened months ago in the coastal areas was bad
i have witnessed winters becoming milder and summers hotter//
because of the severe flooding we had in Datchet and surrounding areas last winter/because you wonder if it due to the climate change and it will happen more frequently and will be more severe//
few years ago they said the drought was due to climate change, then they said all the water was due to climate change/ i tend to switch off they can't have it all ways/ so called authorities and people who study it//
were are getting more and more rain , less summer more like winter , thunderstorms are worrying
we are learning more about the issue and know that it is getting more serious
there seems to be more extreme weather events
because there are more diseases and weather problems recently than 20 years ago, i have seen it change so much, its a concern to me
because there is more issues about unrest and where there is unrest there are more disasters and all these things impact the healthy living/ politically all these things are happening, in an ideal world everything will be right/ they think about the money side rather than the impact it will have on the future//
constant stories on the news, more illnesses caused by environmental factors
because of the recent weather events, including last winters storms and floods
because of where i live/ the weather is changing more severe heat and rain/more flooding and my area is more prone to flooding/we have the worst flood in 60 years
because of the problems we have had it the flooding had been a couple of more centimetres it would have come into the house/the garden flooded right up to my patio
because of the clear differences in the climate
just because ive done more research about global warming/read more scienctiric views on global warming
because the weather is severe than it was.
peoples lack of understanding and not choosing to learn more about change
i have seen differences in the weather patterns, generations to come are goingto suffer more than me because of my age. impact on future generations.
i have been educated a bit more about it through school and by reading newspapers.
think because we are being made more aware in the media, since leaving university i am more aware too.
because i studied the data. I am a physicist CPhys.
because of the severe changes in weather condition.
look at the weather and state of things, type of summer weather, deff something happening
because things are changing rapidly, ice cap melting, less ozone etc
because of what i learned at school/college
because over 12 months i dont see anything from any world governments to change it
ice is melting its getting warmer polutions getting worse//
After everything going on with the railway lineand the sea eroding the coast./After the sea level rising you have to worry about what wiull happen to Dawlish.//
I think I'm more concerned about energy resource - the way we're using gas. I think the government should do more to encourage people to fit solar panels and rainwater gathering./I guess it's in the media more - it's more prevalent where I work.//
I think the news, the press, all media now is- everyone's being made aware of the effects of global warming and climate change3 through the media.//
greater evidence of effect on under developed countried and food supply
seen what's happened in the last 12 months
i have started to read a lot more online/ away from bbc websites to other websites/ also different weather in the Uk/
it is getting a lot more and you are seeing more/the floods the hurricanes you are seeing a lot more of the effects of it
in recent events all the floods it was scary to see the floods kand their effects
i have recently find out more about climate change.
raise in temps and no working frm home any more and more trees been cut down
seen the changes throughout the world/there have been a lot of changes regarding the people, people should change where they live. Mostly weather changes, very rainy or very dry more so than when I was a child
because there seem to be lots of signs of climate change happening, more rain and floods everywhere, too much rainin some parts of UK causse major problems, like i saw on tv and those houses damaged, it never was expected in UK but its signs of climate change.
because they have been bleating on about this for so long and have not noticed any significant change/pollution etc
because of the serious flooding we have seen
Because I workedwithin the renewables industry.
because i think of the future generation
after seen what happen flood,people were out on streets.
my friends and family have been caught out in the floods
the floods and heatwaves the weather is changing
local weather patterns, global weather patterns
because of the damage to the environment
THE NEWS ITEMS IS SAYING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE/FILIPINO WORKMATE CONCERNED ABOUT FLOODING ETC/FRACKING IS OF COCERN/SUPPORT WIND FARMS
BECAUSE I HAVNT SEEN MUCH CHANGES IN PEOPLES INVOLVEMENT TACKLING IT
Because we can see and feel it happening.
Probably because of the storms during the last winter.
Because of the last awful Winter. Also because of the melting icecaps.
because of the weather and the more droughts and dry periods than 10 years ago, and more pollution in the sky and air
wEATHER PROBLEM . fLOODINGS AND ALL THAT
because i am an old woman now. Im well advanced in age
More concerned about poverty / spcial justice than climate change. Priority
Due to living here seeing the effects of the storm damage. Seeing on TV the nature programmes in the Arctic where the polar bears are being affected. Forests being cut down.//
i think what we hear on telly and that, i think thats why
its becoming more apparant, there seem to be more natural disasters, well we live by the coast,its more heighntednd now in the media, there are more natural occurences taking place
i have experienced flooding first hand tand the storms on the south coast of Britain/there seems to be no cutting back in the use of fossil fuels and the disruption of forests throughout the world/there don't seem to be cost effective viable alternatives
i have seen it/i see the affects on the biosphere on plants,animals/i have always been interested in the environment and you can really see the changes in wildlife, animals,insects and the environment/
because of flooding and changing weather patterns/seasonal changes/general cliamte change//
worry about polar bears and floating ice caps/wild life suffering/bothered about trees coming down in different parts of the world/rain forrests//
because we had a surg and we got flooded
i have heard media and scientific reports
Local Flooding this year highlighted potential effect of climate change
because of local flooding. Other severe weather conditions like tsunami in Japan
THROUGH STUDING THE SUBJECT IN UNIVERSITY
access to more information/aware of the issue/cocern that fracking is the answer and dont believe it is /cocern that people contiue to oppose green initatives such as wind farms in Porthcawl/
becuae nobody cares about the effects of flood. Insurance premiums go up around flooded areas. Pooerest cant afford rises
ev ery day life is changing because of climate change
water flooding at gateway of my house. also general flooding in various parts of britain when lives were challenged and people made homeless
Because of the storms last year./And the fact that we'ew about 5 metres above sealevel.//
Well due to a move to the coast - the coastal erosion.//
Because I think everyone's doing their bit more./ i think down here it's better than up where I come from.//
purely because of the flooding, i couldn't get around/becauase the reservoir is nearby/rain//
we have had flooding in Datchet/ more rain and some people who watch levels are not doing so and there is more rain than we used to have//
the local precipation issue, the flooding, its not river, its river, drainage and ground water, its multiple causes//
see more progs on tv and take more notice
i am getting older i have grandchildren, i worry for their future//
because of the extreme wet weather falling on dry ground causing slippage and erosion which hasn't happened in years
nobody else seems to be doing anything about it. they talk but there is no action. so i have given up worrying.
recyclting if everybosy did that and the way we disregard things when we buy new things. people buy more than they need when they could make do with what the have got.
because of the floods and erosion of sea walls with high tides
cause you hear about it more/more publicity about it/
because of the flooding becoming a problem everywhere/
because we have just been flooded/twice in last year
lot of stuff online about polar icecap melting and methane discharge
because of things on news/ things are being brought to the for mre//
i look at effects of supermarkets/exesive packaging etc
over population and the supply of food effects due toi climate change
dont know anything about it never been concerned nothings affected me/
climate does not seem to be affecting me where i live
We had the Dawlish landslip./We could hear the weather all the inter it was coming right at us./The weather seems all over the place.//
Because it's been a lot more publicized - lot more on Tv and on the internet.//
more severe storm & flood then before nowadays
seeing the impact ofextreme weather in the local area flooding
because the potential impact on me e.g. flooding
Situation seems to have got more serious but international consusus and will to take action has remained ellusive.
the moonsoons in india the southern parts are very late in getting it and the floods in britain
becuase of the weather patterns not just in this country but around the world
the govt have been pushing diesel for the last 15 years, we've now discovered they are dirty and we should withdraw them .
the floods - last year there was no route out of here.
given that the area was flooded last winter
i read heard and had discussions and the understanding is not as accurate
because i have learnt more about the past and from that have realised that climate change is probably cyclical
Because of the change in the weather conditions over the last 12 months
Natural o=f communuication of climate change problems has become more of an impact on our lifes/more current
because i dont think we can do anything about it
Because of the Dawlish wall that came down and I can see that the icecap is melting that makes a difference to everyone in the world.//
the weathjer, tsunamis etc, all extreme weather conditions
not enough done by goverment in flood defence or protection and drainage scheme//
You here on the news we are running out of fossil fuels, and are we doing enough research about alternatives.
becausewe are now starting to see the effects / the real changes will be b be in a few years then it will be to late
because ive lived in a third worls country
the climate in changing and i worry about future generations
you read more about it and you see things changing including the seasons changing
more info coming out about effect sof climate change
because flooding impacted my area quite alot
unexpected change of weather/heavy rail/snow/not enough man power to tackel situations
heavy rain would spell disaster for gloucester/tewkesbury
because of floods prior to that i never thought about this area flooding
I live in a high risk area where we cut off
because i see it everday on the tv, the weather is getting warmer and warmer, not colder, years and years ago it wasnt the same
becasue nothing seems to be getting done about it
because you are always hearing about it in the news
after all the flooding/especially Boston which is close to home/-
there is more on the news/there has been many weather changes/summers are really hot//winters are really cold/last december there were floods across the country/also been a lot of animal deaths or damage to their environment i.e. ice cap melting/-
Basically because what I've seen happen to Dawlish and all over the place with all the flooding.It's just how quickly it happened and I had 90-year old people sitting on their beds because they couldn't get out.//
well the weather has changed, its not the same as it was when we were kids, the pattern has changed completely the summers when we kids were really good
cause of what went on in Jan and Feb/we experienced high water levels up to chest height in some areas/it was worsst you ve experienced//
probably because we have been flodded in my particular area//
because i have a family now and things are more important
because of studying geography which i no longer do
reading facts on internet is pretty depressing/mountains with retretaing snow - 50 years ago vs. now
more flooding andnaturel problems with weather
I teach at school and we discuss very regulerly/
through travel i do not see any effect of climate change
just the weather its not like it used to be//
we are all seperating our rubbish and doing what we can to help so im more aware
load of rubbish and more important things to think about
as ive got older because of the kids growing up worry about our grandkids
government spending on windfarms etc, and no decisions made on nuclear energy
because its changing so fast you can see the changesd within a few months
People should clean ditches and dredge rivers
level of publicty have gone up scientific evidence building up
I don't even think about it - just more concerned about the amount of building going on in this area and acrossed the country
everything is becoming so much more polluted p. should be more green provision
heating and paying for gas, its astronomical prices//
media coverage re ice caps, failure of international agreements on carbon, inabilty of governments to put global interests above their own interests. short term thinking
its the life of the planet/future generations
climate change is a bigger problem than we are making it out to be
the weather and the environment but not sure its climate change
becuase countrys like ours havnt really settles a long term engery soloution not sure whats in place. alternative types of energy
becuse of propsed road croosings across river.
more publicity is given and more emphasis in progranmmes and magazines etc. brings it to our attention.
the flooding and hot weather we have experienced recently
we have had more bad weather recently, winter storms and heatwaves this summer
my family live near Portland Bill which was effected by flooding
i think i have noticed the extremes of weather more than i have in the past/p/i also think that initiatives like crc and kyoto have no teeth/p/practical experience of some localised flooding/p//
now greenwich council have abrovd a new ikea store. dmolishing the old eco sainsburrys. cauess a hell of a lot more pollution.
with building of the airport Im concerned about the environment.
we were discussing in the college, and the teacher opened up on all that could happen about climate change. so it made me realise how much of the change that we're actually having.
because there is little action getting taken from individuals companies and governments
because of all the reports on flooding/here and in other countries
going out and about i see more changes//
because we are seeing more extreme weather around the world//
winter floods made me more aware of severe weather
it is beginning to reinforce the measurements
because am more aware of technology and international governments talking about it
because it is ridiculous the amount of smoke that goes up into the air
im maware of the ice cap melting greenpeace keeps informed
its apparent that its not under this countries control, its primarily China thats developing so quickly that pollution is out of control, its a global problem and were in the 2nd tier as far as having any control over it//
we seem to have had more flooding recently
having a child and thinking about theh world in her future
its more on the news im mjore aware and theres more floods
because there has been more incidents in the uk and closer to home. Such as floods and draughts, more people affected.
because every year that we wait is another year past the tipping point.
the stormy weather last winter seemed to be pretty freakish, away form the normal patterns
not alot happenening with regards to fixing it
Because of the changes in the recent weather
because things have been happening, ie the ozone hole is closing up due to less use of cfc's. Internationally we are getting a grip.
i think the evidence is that nature itself is changing and its not as severe as first predicted//
Don't think about it do I if it comes it comes if it dunt it dunt
its to do with how we had some of the floods / because of that my neighbours get concerned and they come to me for help
because we had a dreadful time with the flooding all over the country and locally too
because i have developed illness and other illness due to where v live
what has happened in last year weather is changing drastically
because i have see the difference every year
i think a lot of the scare stories have not come to fruition / bigger things to worry about in my life - other priorities /-
see the effects in the third world countries
seems to have been a lot of severe flooding
weather changes 2 severe winters - followed by 2 avaerage summers
because of what I read and the seasons are changing /
because newly developing cooutnries expanding and investing enough into green energy
effects are increasing in spite of the ozone layer
i feel less is being done about it/ it's off the agenda politically
social networking sites with information on that/ reading on internet//
because of what my daughter does (environmental job)
Because my friends have started having families
Because we all have to live in this world so should do our 'bit' to make it a better place
Our grandson zane Gbangbola died in Chertsey surrey in February due to flooding.
Seen alot about it on the news and in documentries
Not really interested i have more important things going on in my personal life
because of the high winds and storms affecting the local area
Because I have readu[p about it and have done a module on it
Went away travelling and saw effects of climate chnage in 3rd world countries. Plus local floods in Feb
never use to bother me before but it was very bad and i had to leave my home i lost my car and the conservatory came down
i guess the extreme rain and the actual flood the first time here in the area
reports about wild life we heard yesterday
There are more important world affairs to be sorted out first
sea level rising will rise 3-4 inches in next few years i used to work on river//
surveyor said no flooding here for 40 years//
bECAUSE OF THE IMPACT ON MY GRANDCHILDREN
having a baby and thinking about the future more//
because of the pollution in this road and it effects my and my son's asthma
BECAUSE THE MEDIA IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT IT AND TRYING TO CONVINCE US THAT IT EXISTS BUT I REMAIN SCEPTICAL
i watched a programme about the ice caps melting in greenland / how quickly they are melting / sea levels rising / polutents in the oceans and corals /
there have been several occurences around the world such as tidal waves tsunamis earthquakes volcanoes and flood that i think all have to do with it
I think with the powers of internet and facebook and things like that you are looking at a lot more things in your face on a day to day basis, you can't turn on facebook, twitter or whatever program without someone saying it is or isn't happening, but there's not a jot of difference we can make in this country because of countries like China and India who are just churning out what they want whenever they want. I know in this country we're doing what we can but what can a country this size do compared to them - and who are we to tell them to stop when we have been doing it for a hundred years//
the thames is overflowing at times. you can really see it in times of flooding
the weather has been more extreme, also it is getting warmer
because of the big floods in britain would not expect to have this happen in britain
The floods have been hazardous and I know people in the areas where it has happened - the AA man said it was horrendous - he said it was very frightening
I dont feel there is much being done about it long term
It is everywhere now. Everyone is talking about it and it is on the news and makes you aware of it
because i became a christian a year ago and nation is protesting against nation and the whole natural disaster picture makes me aware this si what is written in the bible//
because the politicians are telling us climate change is the real thing and its not/ al gore bouhgt a new house at sea level so that proves it//
evidence shows its shows its getting worse, happening across the planet//
cos we have had all this hot weather and not rain or cold which is what we are used to at this time of the year //
the seaons are all over the place we havent had any snow, but then there is snow in May//
So many people have had serious flooding in there homes. We also need to address the fossle fuel issue and have more renewable energy sources.
great grand children to think of / what are we leaving for them.
we are getting horrible spiders which are migrating to here as the temperature is right for them - we dont get nice weather we used to
because things seem to be changing quite quickly /
because it seems to be getting worse/we get more extreme weather/many animals have become extinct in the last few years//
because i study international politics and know a fair bit about it//
after tony abbott getting in control in australia//
because the significant signs are irrefutable and we could never sit outside on 30th september ever before this year//
reacting to news of dissaaters whih are happening
more and more houses being build no where to soak up the rain
because i lived in student accommodation before and now I live with my family and more aware of redducing enegy use
rising prices of fuel like gas electric and car fuel also the emissions/other countries will not cut down on the chemicals they use ie China/there is a change in seasons here and abroad
my son is only four and i would worry about future generations/motorways will be waterways
more aware because studying it at university
much more informed now, because of uni course, and seen how the impacts are felt
storms, and uni course explains the details
just through things ive seen on tv, with the changing of the polar ice caps and everything defrosting, and the seasons are changing too i think
just because the world is going/keep using fossil fuels
nothing has happened and its a natural thing
i feel a little difference/the weather here is a bit worse in the winter because of storms/i could see the storms so close to me/last winter was severe//
i can actually see changes/winter is changing as we have a lot less snow//
i can see it now i can feel it as well my daughter has allergies
Because with the economy as it is, not much money can be given over to help fight climate change
Because I have seen it being reported more often which would imply that it is becoming more servere./
becasue I did a course on it/ also more media focua on it lately/
eXTREME WEATHER EVENTS ARE HAPPENING OFTENER
Because of the wind and rain in Aberystwyth
it affects the whole world not just one country/ protect and dessiminate environmental awareness to protect lives from death/ the world leaders will listen and be concerned about the danger of climate change//
whats going to happen to your children and grand children
Because of the breach of the sea wall and ensuing floods
because of what happened in February in Borth
because of the freak storms we experienced
i think it is because it is a more public awareness on the news and inthe papers and yo u can see the changes over the period of time/esepcailly weather the winters are severe now and flooding. the amount of cars on the road is worrying//
watched documentary called is our weather changing?/the fact that the worst adverse conditions were in 2012 and this year in scotland we had winds of 80 miles an hr and due to the flow of the gales it affected greater manchester
animals they are greatly at risk through the climate change
due to bad flooding down south last year and early this year//
seen flooding all over uk last year and early this year and i reckoned it could only get worse//
from past experience with weather and hazardous roads
cos i dont like whars happening to animals/dont like the rain forrests being chopped down cos that affects us all not just animals//
because at the moment thin gs are changing//
tHE SEA CAME OVER AND CAME DOWN THE ROAD
more endangered animals and the weather is getting worse / more droughts and floods
as a result of the potential and number extremes of weather//
getting more educated aboutg it,if every farmer no tilled we would not have the co2 problem we have/ green fuel has a lot of anomalies//
mainly because weve had flooding in local area/300 houses built locally on flood pl,ain/having solar panels has made me more energy aware//
because of my understandiung of how deeply it is affecting the earth in many different way, as in; drilling, ozone layer, ice melting, the government have control of the weather!!
Because I have personally seen the results of some extreme weather that hasn't hit this area for a good many years, including the Somerset Levels which are quite close to hand/from what we see on TV and in the newspapers as well with other weather events in other parts of the world, like the drought in the america but I don't know enough to draw absolute conlcusions//
it's going to have an effect on people, if climate change does get worse we are all going to suffer//
i have a house \and realise the impact of usage of facilities.. we are unable to use the local field because of contaminated by floods
I AM INFORMED OF THE RISKS FROM MY SON AND READ A BOOK WHICH TOUCHED ON THE SUBJECT
I HAVE SEEN THE WASTE THAT AMERICAN PEOPLE PRODUCE
flooding keeps happening and building on flood plain keeps it in mind and the weird weather we keep having must be li nked to climate change.
with all the floods and what they are doing about it
Because of what i have been reading in the media. there was an article last week in the mail online last week saying that the ocean temperature had risen more than was first forecast.
because I care about people and there's a lot of elderly people who are vulnerable. For example, the heavy rain lifts paving slabs that the elderly fall over.
after recent winters some change is happening to the weather and climate
realistic and can't control it anyway if it does exist
it is just seeing the storms and flooding that goes on and the hardship it is causing people
evidence a mass extiction event approaching/we are the cause of it/ scientific evidence/
behearing about it more on the news and the summer didnt feel like a proper summer and less snow in the iwnter
things i see on tv about things happening in this country / we dont have seasons
Cos there's more things happening like landslides/flooding
Cos of how weather's changed p wi all storms in England n that pn
because of the floods last winter and the government is dragging its feet on the issue
all my life ive heard about climate change
because it's more visible to me. seems to be happening more and more programmes about it....greater awareness of it.
because you're hearing a lot more about it now so I'm m ore aware than I was. You're seeing changes to our climate too.
flooding but not as bad as 1947 when the ground floor was flooded.
Press reports very little action being taken
because ive learned more about in lectures and have a more informed opi nio
cos I believe its about taxing and getting money to corporates and the rich//
ive been studying about it in my uni learn abbout dev world agic/ecological effects
Because of the violent storms we have in Borth and Aberystwyth
Because of the storms that occured in Borth
the effect that reduction of emissions has had means we really have to do more
ive started a university course at university on human impact on the environment which has changed my views
i think its simply because i have moved in last 12 months so i have more time to think about and consider it
you hear more about it nowadays, and because of ice and all that, big lumps of ice out to sea
we study the bible and we can see whats happening//
after everything that happened with the storms last winter//
because of the weather and the things i1ve read about it/disussions with freinds
they effects are more visible due to cold weathers
Watching nature programmes seeing plants & animals disappearing p suppose changes to general climate we experience p melting of ice caps pn
Cos I've read/understand studies this is way the World has always been
there was a lot of hype in the beginning but a lot of talk but nothing material
lack of 'housekeeping'of drains rivers flood plain areas being biult on not enough sea defences
Because of what Ive read aboout the global environment
because we are seeing the effects here locally / .../-
simply because i see the changes arfound me happening and how the changes affect the people who live around here/-
because .... esp living here [by the severn] big changes in the weather and climate change / living in a remote area public transport is so rubbish that everyone has multiple cars in their households / ...././ better public transport would get cars off the road /-
A result of the extreme rain flooding and weather and the ice caps ozone
because of local floods and coastal erosion
cause of areoplane flight abroad and looked at more clouds/and air quality as suffers from asthma//
where you live whether it gets flooded; conseervation issues
mediareports and more scientific reports
Because those in power do not seem to be addressing the issue.
its my partner who has convinced me that it is getting more warmer and warmer//
its because of the more transport/ which effect the climate
cos its not going to afect us we will all be dead by then//
mainly because it has affected my work because Hull comes to a standstill when the weather is bad/ not just flooding but even with 4 ins of snow//
I pay attention to news, happening iN Africa, more immigrants trying to escape weather effects,
Because of the floods in the spring of 2014
Because of the continuous rain last autumn, winter and the spring of2014
because of the weather especially on the sea front /also reading about so me of the lakes drying up in Russia and ice retreat in polar areas
because there was not much of the problem/ iraqi thing also played its role//
because im now going to have grand child so we are thinking about their future.
I thin k I've read more about it and seen the effects of severe weather here which makes you understand what it might be like.//
Because it's been on the news/it's daily you hear about if if you read the papers or listen to the radio.//
because everybody is aware now what is happenign to uor planet. We all are doing our bit recycling and doing eneryg efficiency. Trying to do more.
'cos it's not happening, you don't mess with nature.
changes in weather and flodding. Seeing the sea come over the beach towards teh house.
i think it s the weatehr and the how the ice is melting.
I experienced thos e horrifc storms at the beginning of hte year. Even though we 've got costal reinforcements the sea came right up over them.
because it doesnt bother me, we cant do anything about it, i wont be here anyway!
because you hear about it more in the news, more recognised that its something that we actually need to sort it out...
because i come from avery hot country and its getting hotter and hotter each year (Brunei).
well because theres so much on the news, you only have to read specific articles and you know how serious its becoming...
because of the pollution and seeing the effects of the ice. seeing what happens when the weather changes...
frightened by the weather, fire and flood
everything around the world health situation ebola
history of the last year with the river flooding and other parts of th country been affected by flooding.
talk about it more with a friend who is obsesse
of the weather changing and the seasons changing / predictions of arctic freezes coming
because of all the problems england had last year
too much from everyone, throwing things away and over eating. you can't win
yes i probably have, becuase there's more publisity and more you read about in the press
because when i was in 6th form it was talked about frequently. but now i'm no longer there i talk about it far less than then
there are more disasterss happening like the avalanche in the himalyas and mud slides whcih is all to do with climate change/seeing more and more things happeninbg in the rest of the world/
a lot more evidence of severe the affects
well because having seen, and having lived in north devon, i just get the feeling there is more and more water coming our way
because of the sort of unpredictable weather weve been having, rains been heavier, everything is extreme, tidal surges, things that have happened that have nver happened before
its more of an informative thing i've been more informed recently
after what happened here with the storms last winter when the railway was washed away//
the amount of floading in this area the seasons have changed it affects some of the things yiu do it has cost me more to get into work due to flooding
we are seeing tje impact more nnoow in this country
more news is coming through about where climate change has happened ie flooding
become more widely spoken about in the media.
There was all the flooding and the bad weather in Dawlish and you hear more about the bad weather on the news.//
because i cant see any change really to be honest, 12 months ago is when the railway line went down and nothing like it has happened since
because i am thinking of my granchildren and their future, and all the other grandchildren in the world, i shudder to think what it is going to be like in 50 years time, unless something drastic is done
Have I have not seen any significance need to change/ The country as a whole and also/ Globally/ China's air poluution problem is really bad//
the same concern/ Because we are concerned if its raining or not/ The difference places we have to go//
The pace of climate change is increasing/ The effects are becoming obvious//
because we have almost been flooded last winter
because we had flooding around christmas
there has been more in the press and on the news about it/there is a problem - a particular weather situation arises - say a hurricane - and they get big publicity saying its climate change to blame - who knows - we have only had data for a short time /with population growth almost everyone produces co2
because i have watched things on discovery channell and they cover most things//
local flooding again after serious 2007 floods
Because I've watched the weather and it seems to me that every time you watch the weather the isobar map is more mountainous./More extreme weather.//
I've been paying more attention to it -becoming more actively involved./It's become more obvious to me./And also I think there's more promotion of it as an issue - it's more mainsteeam now than just the Freiends of the Earth twenty years ago.//
I think that's what made a big difference to the railway line down here with the storms and I think as climate change clicks in it will get worse.//
Because I do'nt see much happening as regards the burning of fuel./The traffic hasn't gone down - the trains haven't changed to something less toxic.//
I suppose mainly for me because of the storm which made me think a bit more about things, and if the sea level was to rise//
THER IS A PROGRAMME AT MY WORKPLACE WHICH IS EDUCATING US
issue around my whole life and hasn't changed much
the government of the w3orld is not taking it seriously
i have a bigger [picture outlook than a year ago
i dont worry at all about it / i've always felt the same way / i feel its a natural phenomenon - they keep changing their views, its been the greenhouse gasses, the ice age, the experts keeping changing their views, its whatever they want your money for./-
the rates of flooding have become more frequent and they are more longer lasting /-

What signs of climate change have you noticed during your lifetime?
we are getting different birds and insects in the country / wildlife that only live in the south are now found in the north
the icecaos melting / the gulfstream is weakening and therefore affecting our climate
fluctuations in weather/increase in storm damage locally
used to be 4 seasons in a year now only 2.
winters more severe/more rainfull and hotter summers/
floods and the weather has changed a lot the seasons have changed, over the years
winter getting warmer/summer getting hotter
more extreme weather/ globally we seem to have very high temperatures and flooding at an extreme level, 2 extremes of the weather/ wonder if it is linked to climate change, i guess thats the thing//
primarily weather/ moreextreme and more variable and consisitently warmer/growth of large industry/ once people have vested interest you have to be careful ablut where you are heading, universities with large climate chage depts//
definitely have changes in the winter weather / storms and the amount of rain / smmer seems to be changing
weather conditions seem to be more erratic and the seasons are alot less distinct than before
I have seen the drastic effects in pasrts of Africa. I have seen ice shelves breaking off in the Arctic
the hot summers are more severe and rainfall is more frequent and heavy
ice in mountains melting, floods, landslides, less harsh winters since the 70s and 80s
extreme bad weather and floods, also getting too hot in my country bangladesh and over here in UK.
i lived here for 13 years there was extreme weather very hot, droughts no rain very dry, mild winters then longer periods of the opposite weather, severe cold, more rain , very cold, the climate has changed from when i was little, but not sure if its climate change or not ?
i seen signs of the weather going crazy dramatic changes all of a sudden, also animals being effected like polar bears without ice in north pole etc.
ice caps melting warmer weather in summer and mild winters
when i first came to country there were no floods but i see them a lot now, i came into the country when i was 25 and boy have i seen floods//
moreso how much it tends to rain, all over its so polluted, flooding, i've never seen anything like it in this area
i have seen giant hailstorms and some local flooding
no proper summers, proloned periods of rain, varying degrees of winter
my sister flloded out of her house in yorkshire, a local flood, the ground locally has been wetter
more heavy rainfall and the weather seems to be less sttled than before
flooding of friends gardens from nearby streams, peoples holidays ruined by unusual weather events/ camping locations that are almost non-existent due to the degredation of the coastline
more extreme weather in other countries/ flooding in britain
getting hotter/ ice caps melting/ deforestation
had less sunshine and in summer it was very short, more sunshine than usual, flooding in devon and cornwall
seasons shortened and changes in weather
it rains harder it seems more torrential they seem tropical/big rain drops and we have hotter summers.
road has flooded last winter and 12 years before
The extremities of the weather both here and abroad. The increasing human cost connected with weather.
Climate always changes but recent changes to warmer temperatures in summer and more flooding of thames recently
Extreme weather - sudden changes e.g. rain, hot sun etc
warmer, irregular weather patters/ more dense emmissions in cities/towns
very harsh winters and very hot summer with a very hot sun, unpredictable weater
allweather is much more extreme than it used to be
weather patterns only 27 but in the last 10 years
the different weather patterns, lived here for 27 years. Flash flood in 2000 and flooded all my house and had to have all new floors downstairs. never happened before, switched me onto climate change. change of the seasons.
changing weather; more extreme weather; more periods of a lot of rain and then no rain.
extreme floods, rains, used to live in california and used to be lots of droughts, ice caps warming.
weather changes we have here. the way the media has changed re international climate change.
rivers are high, floods, and earth quake,
lot of wather one day boiling hot next day rain
hot early summer, much more rainfall and flooding
shifting seasons and we seen more flooding as well
winter changes used to be always cold with good somers, now erattic
odd weather, media reports... we hear more all over the world
less days of real cold winter in poland too
saesons changing - 2 seasons rather than 4//
change in weeather patterns/weather sems to be erratic more unpredictable than it used to be//
The seaqsons seem to be changing - summer starts earlier, the winters seem to be either much wetter or much colder./More flooding events across country.//
I guess winters that I used remember as a child are no longer happening on the west coast of Vancouver.//
The seasons are not as defined as they used to be.//
The seasons seem to change. Back as a kid we got a summer you'd know as a summer. It's as ifr the seasons have mixed up slightly and the weather's getting more freakinh - more unpredictable.//
changing weather patterns; recycling becoming the norm
weather patterns are different: summers werer warmer and winters colder.
the seasons are mixed up/flowers and birds confused/what you see on televison/poor polar bears running out of ice/humans affecting the rain forests/more farmland taking of. willing to go without meat
weather in the uk has changed /floods/adverse weather in the us/ the hurricanes more than in previous years/droughts in africa/it has dialled back a bit but the media is focusing on other things than the droughts in africa
more flooding/more natural disasters seem to be happening
increase of extreme weather both here and elsewhere on the planet
the pollution because of too many cars.we should go on electric cars.
winters are different. increase flooding.ice-caps melting
heat increases/temps changing going deeper and deeper//
warmer wetter winters, wetter summers, lack of snow in winter
seasons become muddled, its become warmer and winder. more extreme weather conditions.
weather change ie more rain and also more dry periods
the flooding/more in areas on England and we have had severe winters
changes to flora and fauna/more slugs in allotment/we have warm climate species in uk
too much rain happening and severe floods here and abroad, nature is being ruined and there seems to be less green spaces and nature around. So much has been happening in the world and change in my lifetime, i could go on about so much stuff. The nature and our surroundings, is being destroyed by humans and climate change.
coastal erosion/more varied weather patterns/
I think the air quality is poorer.The weather has changed, eg. heavy storms.
the flooding.the artic is melting.the glacier in himalaya is receding over the years.
nature and wildlife and seasons have changed from when i was younger.Birds coming to this country unlike before.
winter is gone.it is no longer snowing as it used to.
season them slef is prime exampel of it.now season are very iregular
winters are getting less mild, and rivers flooding more often.
on a global basis? temperature rises, unstable climate,
the weather side of things, it seems to be going all haywire
yes ive been here for 29 years now, and the summers are getting warmer and the winters are getting milder
weather changes/wetter winters and warmer summers
i think the weather has changed over the years
It wasnt as cold as it use to be when i was a child
There has been unexpected weather , warmer winters etc
when i was younger it was diffrent climate
seen more severe weather recently .in this summer it was really hot weather
Unusual amount of floodings, earthquakes, eruptions, hurricanes,etc.
Wetter and warmer, it did not use to be.
thunderstorms, flooding, weird weather changes,
winters getting warmer, changing weather patterns.
more extreme weather and more traffic pollution
at school holidays they were much hotter now there is more rain
weather has changed. We are getting wetter summers and warm winters
the seasons are changing very gradual. There are more rain this days
Seasons different./You wonder whether it's what you remember as a child or whether your memory's clouded./Weather seems to be more extreme than it was years ago.//
Average temperatures - we don't get the long protracted winters/Tending to have more average temperatures.//
The weather is different - we used to have snow in the winter and thunderstorms in the summer./The seasons are flattening out more.//
Well the weather patttern changes. There are slight atmospheric changes I've noticed in terms of dust and pollutants./In Dawlish we've seen un usual and increasing storms - moree extreme weather -higher tides and higher winds.//
increased flooding thor0ugh out the country and sea levels arnt actually rising that much, you can see it living here, inland flooding is probably the worst one, these gates are here for that very reason, it never has, but it probably will at some point
probably more extremes in winter weather and summer too
more flooding, there has always been flooding, even worse than now, but it seems to be happening more frequently, and you hear more about it because of the media
the weather has changed significantly, it is more unstable, unsettled, we dont get seasons anymore, from when i was a child
the weather /its all changed to what it used to
worse flooding and not having seasons anymore
deteriation in weather flooding and droughts hurricanes and storms and uneven patterns globally
its getting warmer than i can remember it and more flooding happening in UK, its more torrential rain
i don't know it seems no different know to when I was young/it was warm when I was child too
not so mamy mines i lived in a mining village with lots\of poor quality air
winters are much milder and the first two quarters of the year are harsh
changes to biosphere/animals/water levels/weather etc
we have increased rainfall/more of it and more concentrated/milder winters is a trend too we get the odd severe bit but generally milder
extremes of weather - if hot really hot if cold really cold/more flooding
warmer winters/wetter springs/wetter summers/more cloudiness//
colder summers and more snow over the winter
Less snow in winter ; warmer winters ' more rain ; more extreme weather conditions - Tsunamis etc
destruction of woodlands-manamade destruction/popuation change upwards massively
wetter and cooler summers/milder winters/early springs
erosion around britain/cliffs falling into sea/more extreme weathe/global warming islands disapearing/freak flooding/flooding in Boscastle /flash flooding
Winters have got warmer and wetter, Seasons are not so defined anymore. Become a goverment bad wagon instead of serious issue. People like liberals know nothing about it but shout about it becuase theyve nothing else to shout about
colder winters, summers hotter. Stornger winds, Heavier rain
Costal erosion. Big varients in climates/weather.
The weather changes and the seasons have changed
Pollution has changed - more cars and use of goods
strong winds heavier rain fall, more flooding
more flooding, more hot summers and more rainfall during summer
better quality of air since i moved from Lancshire
summer getting wetter, less snow warmer winters
reduced snow in winter not so cold in winter and wetter in summer more flooding
more distruction by flooding and more prevelent
weather chnages/ unseasonal weather/ more flooding
Pollution in Manchester - dreadfully./The emissions from the buses there's more asthma - children are suffering./We've visited Aberdaron which is coastal and the footpaths are eroding.//
Because when we first married milk used to pop out of the top of the bottles./We definitely had colder winters.//
The weather being different./Either very hot or very cold.//
snow, flooding, heatwave/ other countries, the weather is coming over here//
like we used to get spring summer autumn winter but now we get warmer winters and colder summers/ dk//
glacier reduction and size/ extreme weather patterns., more freak weather, flash flooding which we associate with m ore monsoon areas//~
more secere winters 2years ago/more gales/
the weather-seasons changing/no more rain in summers/more snow in winters
the weather has changed/coastal erotion and flooding/fish stocks are dimminishing//
changes in weather patterns and the changes inn season patterns
high river flooding for longer period of time
greater rainfall and road traffic conditions as a result of that
Coastal errosion weather patterns changing & global warming
The warming of the seasons - the earlier arrival of spring
shore lines especially, the seasons getting mixed, dark nights in august when they dont usually happening til semptemebr.
higher tides, erosion of sea walls melting glaciers
the seasons are changing/more flooding/the icebergs melting and sea levels rising/ polar caps shrinming and animals becoming extince//
a variety of changes in climate over the years/not one year aver the same/
things you visit on holiday are not there any more/changes in the weather when you go on holiday and expect it to be warm and it has snowed/
less fog due to less industrialisaation/
weather patterns/flooding in local area/flooding is result of weather changes//
flooding locally. You cannot relie on the 4 seasons now, they go into each other when years ago they were very distinct
the flooding and the seasons have changed
a lot more people suffering with hayfever
media feeding frenzy. Increased flooding on our doorstep
less settled weather patterns/ wetter summers
increased intensity tropical storms/freak weather in uk//
average global temperature increase linked weather phenomena and understanding of temperature swings//
seasons seem to be getting earlier flooding and heavy storms
there are a lot of cars on the road which cause lots of toxic fumes/
I've noticed the storms and that - they fetched all my trees down - that was unusual wasn't it?//
Warmer winters and extreme weather more often.//
I think the seasons have become really blurred. When I was a little boy we had the four seasons.//
Flooding./It would seem to be more frequent - and temperature rise.//
The seasons are coming in later.Winter used to come in November/December and now it's December through January.//
we r getting more high heat in summer time
the change in seasons weather more unprectiable
More extreme weather events across the globe, droughts, floods, rain, hurricanes etc
rising temperatures freak whether nationally in the usa more tornados
seasons are changing winters not so cold problems with weather in lots of countries
weather pattern. Have lost seasons and flooding in some areas
seasons all run in to each other - no definite differences
weather a bit different somnetime cold ant then hot in some countries. the wwearthe is 70% and then downd
weather patterns and people helaths sufereres from asthmas
mjore freak weather higher and higher temputure and hotter summers
winter temperatures higher / information in my head, i dont keep records - we dont the long frosts we used to
The things we had when we were kids - winter, spring, summer and autumn were much more defined.
this time of year it used to be a lot colder / everything isd different - i've been working in gardening for a few years, this year we seem to be a month behind, birds are nesting out of season, its too warm.
the severe weather events being more frequent / I *think* I have noticed that the light in the sky are clearer than they used to be (eg in the spring it is more blue)/ there is more pollution in the city - burning throat //
change in growing seasons. On whole milder winters. Flooding/more extremes in weather patterns.
sea levels rising and increased levels of flooding
weather changing last five years, now its hotter bearlier in the year
i believe winters are warmer now than before and less rain.
It's getting hotter and hotter Winters are getting shorter and much more milder and summer is much drier
The weather patterns - huge variations in extreme patterns Disappearance of species
The change of weather conditions and the solar caps melting and the edges of countries falling into the sea
change from day-today weather. Used to have proper seasons /just so up and down n ow
no seasons, but ive been flooded 3 years on the trot now
weather is not the same or as predictable - b ut that could be a falicacy of the mind/ conversely smog was a big problem in london when i was younger. but has improved
more rain/less frequent snow fall/non-apprerance of summers. winter longer - summer shorter
uprooted trees, strong wind conditions, hotter temperatures in Summer, climate very\variable throughout the year rather t5han seasonal, plants growing at times other\ than when expected
summer is longer, especially this year, seen on news about tidal changes
seasons have been disrupted, much milder winters, wearther extremes (flooding, gales and droughts) rising temos generally
red alert both times very worring experience
momild winter, noticed more environmentally
winters are warmer, weather not so severe
the weather has been a bit more extreme, didnt see snow when we were younger, we seem to get it every year now.
i think the seasons are changing, but dont know if it is a result of climate changes.
more snow than usual/ more extremes in certain parts of the country
seasonal changes, dirty rain, lack of birds in general
summers were hotter, winters were colder, everything is wetter
we do not have the winters we used to have/warmer now/
moderate flooding for last 10 years but not prior to that
winters are milder and more freak weather
pea production has moved from east anglia to yorkshire
Extreme weather - extreme storms./And unusual weather patterns - and flooding./The wettest winter on record or the coldest winter on record - the wettest summer on record we've had.//
The seasons have changes - I've noticed you can't rely on having rain or snow at a certain time - it's wetter some years than others and last year was particularly bad.//
The Dawlish wall the sea smashed through ti which before it hasn't done at all.
Weather mainly -seems to be less predictable now.//
More extremes of temperature of weather./More extremes of rain - and then drought.//
more tsunamis earthquakes and storms than there used to be
the weather, more severe storms and more rain than usual and how damaging the sun vcan be
change in temp summer lasting longer until later in year and much more rain in the summer moinths
weather warmer ,longer, and we dont get the seasons we used to
freak wether/heavy snow/unexpected downpor of rain//
winter , there is very little snow, and not much change between the seasons
Weather pattern changes, more severe storms.Human behaviour has had an effect and increased population.
wINTERS are getting warmer, coastal erosion.
The weather has changed, no definite seasons now. We have to be careful abour recycling.
the floods i assume are to do with climate change
flooding / freak storms one day heat wave the next
slightly with flooding but that is as much to do with poor management
change in the season winters appear to be much milder or far more extreme
the grounds wetter the drainage isnt as good/the weather is very up and and down/ plants being affected by late and early seasons//
the retreating glaciers in the arctic circle//
erosion of the coast and more droughts and extreme weather
more floods/differnt weather patterns / monthly climate changing
flowers coming out at different times and we dont the heavy frosts anymore
less change in the seasons, warmer winters
the flooding/ change in british weather/its been alot wetter over past few years/ warmer in winter
weather changes/changing patterns of rain fall and temperatures
freak weather/down por all of a sudden etc
well rainfall is more intense and it doesnt matter whether its manmade or not, yes extremes of hot and cold, but then they tell me the summer of 1947 was very hot//
i think the extreme weather that we get is a result of climate change, which is not just in this country//
well the changing of the beaches in the coastal areas, sand getting washed away
that the glaciers are retreating, that certain areas are becoming much drier and there are droughts fires and volcanism
season are hhit and miss nowdays, when i was child, we expected the changes
difference in the weather, sun stronger, winters are colder, more polution
the rivers do not ice over in the winter/it has been less cold in the past years during the winter/it doesnt seem to keep as light at night as it used to/in# can remember sitting on the river bank at half past ten at night and it was really light in the evenings/-
unusual drought and hosepipe bans/change in the weather like hot spens/heavy snow in winter/-
the weather - the seasons have mixed around like it snows in the spring/winter is warmer/-not as icy as it used to be/-
boston was underwater a few months ago/it was terrible/certain crops seem to be growing more readily/more people are producing wine/-
rising sea levels damaging the coastline/melting the icecaps/-
we used to have deffinate seasons and we dont anymore//
alot more flooding/it rains alot more and summers are not as good/ we dont have deffinate seasons anymore//
seasons appear to have changed / milder winters
different species of wildlife appearing in britain moving from southern countries/weather changing/storms and flooding
seasonal differences and increased natural disaster
Wetter than it used to be and sometimes colder than it used to be./There's swings and roundabouts to it - it doesn't happen every year./We're getting more extreme weather than we used to.//
Changes in weather patterns./Temperature changes - seasons aren't the same as they used to be.//
Lot more flooding - the river comes up loads higher than it used to - and the seas they're more ferocious - and like animals they seem to be going slowly down, like.//
It's just the different changes in the weather it's one moment you can have a very hot day and the next you have a thunderstorm - there's not a balance.//
the weather is always differnt and when we have storms they are alot worse than when i was a kid
the summers are different and i used to live in kent, the summers were lovely but the winters were atrocious and its not like that anymore
well i catch the train to work all the time, the storms in the winter are much worse than they seemed to be before
seasons have changed/we have milder winters and warmer summers/but for shorter periods/-
documentaries on the polar regions/countrywide water levels/-
weather changing/river levels changing dropping//
summers are getting hotterand winters getting wetter//
wetter winters/warmer summers/more extreme weather conditions//
i have noticed when i was smaller the winters tend to be warmer and overall the climate is wetter//
coastal erosion. more flooding. airpolution//
seasons changed/extremely warm winters/late spring/cold later in year
WEATHER IS MORE UP AND DOWN, ITS NOT GUARANTEED
increase in flooding, the changes of seasons and internationally the ice caps melting and disappearing
increased rainfall in some parts of the worls decreased rainfall in others.
milder winters/no proper seasons/no hot summers-spring all the time
temperatures rising and polar bears becoming extinct
I have noticed that there is more flooding
winters less severe, and summers less glorious.
wetter summers more dramatic weathers more extremes
the rain is harder; weather patterns are different
we used to have hedgehogs and birds in our garden - we never see them now. Extremes in weather. Localised flooding is more regular.
the weather is a bit warmer now ithe pattern of rain fall is different
seasons are less significant uv rays are stronger and flooding and drought more common world wide
river over flowing/draines unable to cope/heavy rain/gale force winds//
general lifestyle now making climate change happen
we dont get proper winters or summers anymore
winters/nature in general/seasons arent the same//
milder winters,wetter not as cold and less snow. no hot dry summers that i remember as a child//
weather,we dont get the same seasons as we used to,summers arent as long and winters arent the same/ we had snowdrops in the gardsen in march//.
one day it shines another day it doesnt it has been the same for 84 years
july and august were summer. now august iscooler and wetter
more flooding/getting darker and not as much light as we used to do/
shorter winters/not as much wind and more flooding
summers are less summer and winters are not too cold now. the arctic is melting
summers are different and change in weather pattern
Flooding in Rothes, Elgin; Dallas; Garmouth
Flooding in the south of england and other parts of scotland.
melting of the ice caps and local flooding and weather changes
ferocity of the weather, storms and floods
more extreme weather events warmer winters
we do not get the winters like we did with snow lasting a month/
seasons changing/more flooding/ warmer summers / milder winters //
rising sea levels collapse of the ice caps
we don't get the smog anymore like we used to do in London
more flooding and more drought in other countries
dust and dirt and grime on cars/bad flooding/thick snow/hot then cold and no in between//
ice caps effect on ocean currents rising sea levels extreme weather events
more severe weather / flooding/tidal flooding/ warmer winters//
its getting warmer / we seem not to have seasons anymore//
uk flooding anmd drouhting fitting what is happening noew
season times have changed and season differences are less
complete weather changes, thunderstorms and winter months are worse
Mostly the autumn leaf fall is later than usual
more snow and rain each year and summers appear hotter
As a boy I regularly played in the snow as it was for longer periods but we hardly see snow now
weather getting worse and more pollution
weather is getting warmer and the flooding
Blackcap and migrant birds into your garden
more stormy weather, a tsunami and more hot weather and earthquakes around the world
more flooding and more severe weather conditions around the world
the polar cap is melting,,the AMAZON forest is being cut down and we have a big problem with pollution in all our major towns and cities
greater extremes of weather, warmer but wetter summers, extremes of weather on the continent, plant growth times changing/p//
seasons are moving . more flooding extremes of wearher
weather pattern changes this year has been the first normall summer in 8 years. seasons are all out of synch. more flooding.
winter used to be colder, used to be more storms, the seasons were more dfiended better summer.
the summers are getting shorter, and the winters are getting longer
weather changing slightly seasonally a bit more extreme and less regular winter used to be cold and stayed cold but used to not have spring time days
weather/extremes,flooding,droughts/ozone layer/ice reduction in both poles//
in recent years the seasons havent been as clearly seperated as in the past,flowering and fruiting is happening at different times of the year/plums were always at the same time every year//
climare varience uk and in other countries in the world//
weather shifting/ at the moment we have a mild september/ more eratic summers/ snow later into march//
the waether/ we were in the arctic and saw a lot of meltin ice//
weather has changed/summer used to be sunny
warmer winters /no snow like we used to have
severity and frequency of gales and high tides early migration of birds
people get ill at the end of the summer - winter sickness bug
Seasons changing - never sure what the seasons will be doing and the winters are a lot milder than we used to be
polar ice caps melting sea levels rising the ever worsening state of our weather systems the eradication of certain plants and animals
amount of building work more dust in the environment
ice caps, explosion of jelly fish , warming seas
in britian the summers have become much more hot unbearable hot. the hot summers are too hot for briatain
changes in climate and weather conditions and more frequent unusual conditions
more flooding and less snow in winter than we used to in the 80s.the weather bhere is unpredictable but thATS THE NATURE OF IT BECAUSE WE GET WEATHER FROM OTHER COUNTRIES/
weather patterns have changed/more extremes//
rains more and summers arent as hot as they used to be and the destruction to our coastlines
more floods, the sesons are different ie summers arent as hot and wintersnot as cold or severe winters //
rising sea levels, increase in drought and flooding. Hotter summers and wetter winters.
seasons changing/winters are milder/the weather around the world is more adverse than previous.
currents changing/weather patterns/eco system food depleting/birds changing and less species/e.g. a giant jelly fish appeared in portsmouth harbour that appeared and this would not have occured years ago. Unseasonable weather changing
ice melting/hurricanes where they never used to be//
temperature s during winter & summer quite wierd
the fact we are growing grapes in this country for wine/warmer winters/differences in the el ninio
when I was younger but i can't remember doing it
flood, coastal erosion, increase in extreme events, decrease in general summer temperatures, raising of winter temperatures, it's getting wetter, the term 1000 year flood does not apply any more, flooding events are becoming more regular
antartic seeming to melt and change in our spring climate
read reports of anomalies in weather patterns/seen irregularities/still to be seen how much fitting into pattern of human contribution
the weather has changed. the winters are gwtting warmer and the summer is getting wetter because there are floods
more floods and weaher changing and earthquakes
the weather, i think its getting colder in winter
summers are a lot colder and more floods//
we never see snow every winter nature changing there is a shortage of bees
More freak storms I such imagine p this house got flooded in 2007 1st time ever been up about 70odd years pn
Weather changes p air quality much better p more green pn
Just warmer weather in the colder months
more extremes of weather conditions, particularly temperatures
when we went to iceland we saw the glaciers melting and the tour guide said 3-4 years ago they didn't have to go so far up the valley to see the end of it.
the weather is a bit different. In the winter it stays a it hotter.
change in weather and seasons,the weather is more sparodic//
When was younger used to get a lot of fog
Only we don't seem to have a Summer like we used to
Weather p seems to be more extreme when it rains it proper chucks it down & when sunny it were lovely!
the summers are colder and shorter and the winters are not as cold
trees dying / pine trees / due to acid rain and hotter temperatures / heavier rain/ severe winters
polar caps melting / warm winters cold summers
plants flowering at odd times / different types of weather during seasons / use to get alot of xmas snowed in / dont seem to get that now
changes in our weather patterns / more severe winters / more flooding
tend to see more dratic weather / flooding /
less snow/warm winters/more draught/polar ice shrinking
milder winters/more rain/one season for entire year
weather changed/not long summers and snowing and floods
we dont know what to expect with the weather these days it is so changeable compared with previous years
we have longer droughts/seasons are muddled up and jet stream has changed so affects the weather
more flooding/p/colder winters and warmer summers/p/more defined of seasons//
lack of defination of the seasons they blend into one - we used to have hot summers and cold winters and now although it is September it is still warm
spring is starting a bit earlier and autumn seems to be a bit earlier than normal
weather is less predictable, and it more extreme temperatures
the weather, the summers are warmer, winters are wetter, definately alot more traffic on the roads
the summers are longer now inindian than they used to be the seasons in india have changed
winters shorter and warmermore sevrer weather the jet stream changed it's location for thw first time animal and insects from the mediterranean are now here.
often hotter in the summer an increase in climatic disatwers melting ice
increase flooding and less severe winters
unpridictable weather patterns / coastal erosion / ../-
local flooding / only what you see on the tv with tsunamis and high waters, but i'm not sure that is down to climate change/-
i dk is it just imagination of when you were younger i am not sure
tbeen to th carribean and not a lot of differencehings like tide difference the tides now get more extremes of tides / and when the sun is out it feels hotter now than it used to i have
when younger the years seemed more seasonal - latterly seems more varied
there seems to be more dramatic weather events than when i was younger
there appears to be more flooding than when i was growing up
the seasons/ mild winters/ rainy springs//
summers getting warmer/ shifting seasons, winter coming later//
more weather extremes/ and also rising tide//
heatwaves, flooding, a year without snow, extreme weather/ it's all over the place//
flooding, no snow when there should be snow, shifting seasons//
All the prices are going up because of green services
Noticed winters are milder/more flooding/shorter summers
The seasons are changing. its happening in Iceland and nothern hemisphere.We will see it here in a few years
Weather changes becoming more pronounced
weather changes and natural diasters/ Volcanoes erupting/ Tsnamis/flooding/fires
Warmer winters and wetter summers (apart from this summer of 2014
Much hotter in the summer and less rainfall in the autumn
seasons changing / you dont know when its going to be hot or cold// summers last may till august now they can last for a week
more unpredictable seasons / different changes to plant life flowering different times
changes in the seasons / later / subtle changes in weather in terms of variations in volumes of rain / longer wet winters / drier summers less natural showers / excessive short bouts of inclement weather producing above average rain falls
flooding / summers warmer / winters warmer with less snow
climate changes - floods. extreme weather conditions
abnormal rainfall lomger droughts high temperatures
less birds/high rainfall and general change in weather patterns
When I was a child in Bournemouth I remember snow in winter but whether it is a natural cycle or permanent I am not sure
The sub sahara is becoming more extensive and I have lived there so feel that I know from experience
changes in the weather/ wetter warmer/ changes in the garden/ anual changes with birds in the area, later than normal when they would normally be further south//
worked in borneo now building dams on rivers in the cause of climate change, which will not work//
we dont have seasons any more/not predictable//
Weather variations from day to day is greater
shifting seasons/ [respondent points to tree not having lost it's leaves]/ erratic winters/
can't think of examples, but i have seen some//
the weather more extreme weaher and changing over the years
THE SUMMERS ARE GETTING WARMER AND THE WINTERS ARE GETTING COLDER
I read literature on climate change and it's tricky because I could say that in my lifetime I have experienced climate change becuase you only know about climate change from long term patterns, and for me that's why the science is important. I can't say directly that the floods are caused by climate change, we need to look at the long term records//
seasons have blended into one / flooding in this area/ storms are more scary
change of weather / longer winters / different levels of heat
the things i mentioned earlier, and i guess you can summarise that by extremes of weather and climate
well weather patterns, its october now and its about 20 degrees out there,garden, plants, animal behaviour, but obviously the weather
temperature changes,flooding, change in plant life and growth, and also wildlife
just the difference between the length of winter and the inverse length of summer, rainfall they are in general short term indicators as i am only 48 years after millions of years of the planet, wildlife decreasing, the effect on the polar ice caps//
weather has altered a little bit/p/weather has got really wacky/p//
Summers being much worse over the last 10 - 15 years and no snow either//
I find the sun in the summer now is more fierce, more ferocious, you can get sun burnt very quickly, you get bigger storms now, windier winds, this is fairly apparent. Whether this is natural cycles of things I don't know, but there's definitely a tendency for change//
more diesesed trees, acid rain, flowers, bees, birds being affected, people seem more ill, coughs, chesty illnesses. You don't know what causes it exactly, could be aeroplanes//
more floods more earthquakes and tsunamis
summers lasting longer this year and the winter last a lot longer. the seasons are changing. Shorter springs and autumns.
We dont seem to have the same seasons - the seas banging on the walls and breaking the walls down - the farmers fields are flooded beyond belief - it does put you off living by the coast
Warmer summers later - more extreme weather floods and snow at times
The different seasons - goes from one extreme to another - years ago you had proper seasons - you dont now
flooding of aberystwyth promenade/pollution from china when i lived in hong kong/hot and sunny in september but raining all summer in uk/warm in winter/no pattern to weather//
they make wine in england now/there is less snow in the alps//
seasonal temperature change very noticeable /
milder winters but the seasons seem to be topsy turvy
more heavy rain but I am not sure about the hot summers but winters do appear to be milder
Seasons are changing. Floods more often. Crop failures.
it is a lot more warmer. some years have been a lot more wetter with a lot more rain then w e have had years where we have hqad drought as well //
warmer temperatures, different seasons throughout the year. the seasons have shifted, the seasons seem later in the year than they used to be //
the seasons - i can remember that it used to snow in the winter and now it doesnt//
the weather is all over the place. it used to be a lot colder when i was a kid. we used to have summers and winters but now it is all the same. i have noticed since working nights that there have not been so many frosts, this year compared with last year //
far wetter winter and far dryer summers. extreme weather conditions.
rainfall has increased, snow has depleted and the seasons have changed. Winter is not as cold and has become more like a wet summer.
predictable seasons are no longer here . VANISHED through people being thoughless.
when i was younger we had three months in a row good weather / now nothing can be predictable.
the weather is not good all the time - odd day here and there
we have warmer atmosphere there is a lot more rain lot less snow
We dont as much snow as when I was a kid. We get more rain now.
milder all year round /most years are mild and wet /
evidence of icebergs and coastal erosion /
the weather/series of warm winters and wet summers/things have come to my notice from people travelling to the iceacp/i have noticed bees disappearing//
i went to a lake in eastern africa that had dried up/it used to be fresh water and now it is salt water because of great evaporation//
yukon had snow on septmeber 30th and that never used to happen//
change in weather patterns/coastal erosion//
dont get defined seasons like we used to/
been more flooding in general in the uk//
just like more recycling bins and people more aware of it and more important and people are more aware of it
hardly any winters/winters and summers blend into one
our summers are milder but longer also we have had a lot of flooding
more dramatic exremes ie either freezing cold or very hot or too much rain or too little/when i was young the seasons were all quite define
it has got wetter over the last 20 years
Seasons don't seem to be there any more. Weather seems to be strange and unpredictable
Moving of the seasons. Milder winters with the odd hard winter. very months and droughts and flooding.
storms more serious, more wet dry spells
more extreme weather patterns, more storms
weather is more different / see our first MINI hurricane
weather changes / animal and birds seasonal changes.
temperature of winters and summer are not as severe as they were.
i worked in the air idustry, and they aslked the employess what they could do to clean up the plant and we came up with loads of ideas,
the icebergs and things that are melting in the icelandic sea, i think that is the most publicised thing, and the ozone layer of course
seAsons are different/hot in october as is in june
small amounts, slightly warmer in winter, less snow
extreme weather storrm rain sea damage blurring of seaons
im not saying that i know climate change is the cause but i have noticed less snow in winter and milder winters/more extreme weather/differences between seasons are less distinct//
in general winters are getting colder in summer more heatwaves
seasons shifting flooding less cold winters
The winters seem to be warmer and there is more rainfall
harsher winters sometimes and hotter summers
definitely. seasons not like it use to be. summers are like winters, winters are summers/
SUMMER ARE CHASNGING ITS GETTING WARMER THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
the ice meltin /the season are changing and going into each othert
the summers are not so go as they used to be and the winter are as bad as they used to be
the weather/we have a lot more watet/errosion of the coastline
winter storms and snow sometimes and warm now
the weather is very odd with extremes ie last winter's rain
less snow fall in bosnia/ less hot summers in bosnia and somewhat extreme weatehr in the UK.
werer having hotter summers/ werer getting freak weather events like the storms last year we are getting colder winters as well
the weather has become more erratic, when I was child you alwys had snow at certain periods. the insects in my garden are different to teh ones they used to be. Riversin my local area are runnign dry each year.
more extreme weather events/ fluctuations in weather change
winters don't have the same kind of punch anymore and lack of snow. Summers have becmoe a kind of extreme.
just seent that the type of c;lmate at differnt tiems of the year change, e.g.the amount of snow and it is getting warmer in general.
Watch documentaires on ITV and the Ice cap melting, birds staying for longer instead of flying south.
NEWS IS CONVINCING ME NEWS FROM THE ARCTIC
rapid changing weasther systems and coastal decay
flooding in my streets. Last year we experienced some flooding. Drains could not cope the severe rain.
a lot of people die all over the world//
its hot in october the seasons have no changes
summers have altered start later and carry on later
Water breaching sea walls summers getting warmer
the seafront getting destroyed during the winter
weather getting more snowy in winter hotter in summer and the waves bigger
hotter summers and winters and more frequiet floods
the seasons arent the same as they used to be. we have just experienced a loverly long spell of summer with hardfly any rain whereas last year everywhere was flooding //
we used to have really bad winters years ago but that doesnt happen now//
the weather has changed totally to when i was a kid. when i was a kid the winters were really cold and the summers were long and warm/now the winters are milder and the summers are not so hot and they seem to be shorter //
i have notices that the winters are more severe, there is more flooding/ /
definite seasons when younger / now little change between sesaons /
seasons not being the same .theres been so many varients/and the extremes of temperature/flooding in thiws country and abroad//
lived in rumania for 18 years experienced extreme temperatures/and here we had bad hale stone rain and ash clouds
changes in weather patterns/you dont seem to have the same seasonal changes as they used to/seem to be more flooding
the continuing droughts in my homeland in north west germany/warmer winters/fluctuating weather//
the summers don't seem as long or as hot as they used to be the other things are on the tv abroad like sunamis and earthquakes
when we went back to school in september we were faced with icy paths and the summer holidays were gloriously sunny
massive change in the weather all the time
i think it seems to be wetter, warmer and colder, depending on what time of year it is
flown of Banglerdesh and Germany seen flooding. bush fires in Australia
it is getting more colder, more cloudier
severe rain downpours, flooding and blending of the seasons, summer less hot and winter less cold
the summers used to longer when i was young
the winters are colder and summers are later
used to snow more when i was younger, getting less and less.
warmer winters. when i was a kid we had deep snow.extreme heat and extreme col//
the weather has been rather strange over the last two years or so
tHE SEA GETS HIGHER AND HIGHER ANDCOMES IN
coastal erosion and more extreme weather
weather wise / harser winters and warmer summers / flooding
weather is more extreme / more insects in britain than ever use to be here
really cold in winter and very hot in summer and it seems seasons are changing
this year is a prime exampole coz of the hot weather we have had and the storms were extreme
we dont get the fogs that we used to get and the car industry has increased and we now have buses that are electric
heat/wet/things are changing, we live near a river//
either we are getting very hot summers or cold rainy ones it is noticeable//
weather has been so different in the last 2 or 3 years. we dont get our 4 seasons anymore...
weather changed, summer and winter seem to be more or less the same
the weather; bad storms and milder. never seen floods like we had here...
In Buckinghamshire in the early 40s there were tremondously cold winters with vast amounts of snow and that didn't happen again until the late 60s, 70s/personally this is what I have noticed, that I think the winters were harder when I was child/also the melting of arctic ice so that there are shipping lanes where it wasn't possible before//
people's lifestyles have changed because of climate change, when I was a kid life was that much easier, weather didn't effect me adversely so much in those days/it's difficult to explain it but you didn't worry about the weather to the extent that you worry about it now//
I think we have wetter winters than we previously had and hotter summers, but only very slightly. More polarised//
LONGER SUMMERS birds arriving here\ earlier
WETTER SUMMERS MILDER WINTERS MORE EXTREME GLOBAL WEATHER EVENTS
THERE ARE NOT THE HARSH WINTERS WE USED TO HAVE
weather news of polar ice caps melting water levels rising atmospheric polution eg beijing olymics air not tfit for athletes to breathe.
the seasons seem to have merged there is more flooding summers are milder and wetter
seasons changed slightly.. warm weather in the winter and cooler weather in teh summer at times
increase in frquency in flooding locally and extreme weather in different plkaces artound the globe
the weather has changed wetters summers less severe winters
The seasons are not as distinct as they used to be and the amount of flooding in areas, little pockets of it up and down the country. neber aware of that before.
The seasons are all over the place and there's no snow at Christmas or heat in the summer. We dont know whats going to happen the next day.
Noticed that we have extremes of temperature earlier and later than we used to have and less harsh winters.
flooding and unexpected change of weather //
it is the distinct lack of frost.you very rarely see it and the winters are much milder than they used to be and the summers are warmer for longer
more extremes of weather/less defined seasons/
ice caps melting/traffic pollution/oil spills/
change in seasons/more extremes of weather on global scale/
winters gettign warmer and more flooding locally
more flooding and winter getting colder and summer getting hotter
flowers are coming out at different times due to weather changes
weather changing getting warmer and hotter at unpredictable times
the weather, the really hot summers and cold, cold winters....
less snow than when i was little, i dont know, just different winters
SEASONS MOVING. MORE ERRATIC RAINFALL PATTERNS. MORE STORMS.
Erosion of coastline p more severe winters sometimes & flooding pn
icecaps meltingand ozone layer problems.
SEASONS changing used to have really nice summers and cold winters now we dont knowwhere we are cant plan weatherwise dont know what going to get from one day to the next
dont have summer much anymore/seasons seem to be all over the place at the moment
Shift in weather patterns, warmer summers, colder winters. frequency of flooding around britain and since our floods locally in 2007 all we see on telly is more areas in britain being flooded.
Weather being rather more uncertain. Seems to be getting warmer, seasons changing, starting earlier, birds migrtating earlier, trees coming out in leaf earlier, spring starting earlier
The weather. Summer used to be summer but now it's not. All meklding together into one long mild winter. Floods in July was not known.
weather in nature things plantas coming into bloom much more quickly extreme weather flooding and draughts
The jetstream and volcano's have changed
i guess chernobyl affected Wales/i think plants and gardens have changed since i was a child, we can grow different things which we couldnt grow before/smokeless coal was important but now we have more pollution from cars and diesel causing health risks//
its getting warmer/seasons are slightly off//
winters have become milder/snows a lot every year//
change in weather patterns/increased frequency of hurricanes/neutrophication of water courses
i hear about ice caps melting/less migration land available for polar bears/seals cant find ice to protect young n//
the way the wind and storms affected the sea/
WARMER AUTUMNS AND SUMMER STARTING EARLIER
THE SEASONS ARE NO LONGER SO CLEARLY DEFINED AND THERE ARE FREAKS OF WEATHER
a lot more rain. and they talk about the ice sheets in greenland and iceland and the ones in the himalayas which are dissapearing. I think we've had more storms and other people in the world has had less rain//
I feel that the sun causes me to burn or get a rash more easily than it used to be the case. I don't know what exactly is at play//
in my childhood summers were hot and reliable. winters were more snowy.
increased flooding; more extremes of temperature
more smog/ more people on bbbuses helps reduce emissions/
the weather patterns more extreme weather
the seasons dont seem to be any different/ get all weather in one week
high seas/ no longer defined seasons/ not much snow
movement of the jet stream causing air pressure
weather patterns have changed - though this could be cyclical.
its difficult becuawe im looking at things i saw as a child, there is climate change going on, my family lives in candada, and the the north west passage is melting big time, but he in the uk its not so much, last years flooding was a one off i believe, it just doesnt happen
oh i think warmer winters, thats the big one for me, but also i mean after this summer i cant say cooler summers can i, i think the seasons are blending, less clearly defined
weatherwise, unpredicable, it can be sometimes, not all th time
seasons have gone out of sink/plants are growing before they are suppose too/insect life is disappearing or appearing at wrong time of the year//
the weather's changed throughout the years, when I was younger it used to snow at christmas and it hardly ever does that anymore//
the winters tend to be a lot milder, that's the main thing really/we hardly ever get snow of any significant amount these days//
yes, it just varies, there are cold years and warm years and we've had two very cold years in the last five years here in Devon//
I suppose I can't remember a winter as wet as the one we've just experienced, and it seems like the seasons have changed a bit, so yes it seems like things have changed//
seasons starting earlier/at different times
tides getting higher/migration cycles changing
a lot warmer and the weather patterns have changed
temperatures rising/growing habits of plants have changed/weather patterns
Warmer winters p loss of animal/plant species pn
Just your seasons don't have em like we used to so uncertain
Increased harsher rain/snow hotter summers stuff like that
not so much snow and Autumns are still fairly warm and more rainy than in the past
differnt types of birds coming inot garde, cormorants going into seas and ponds in country
seasons changing 3 4 winters without snow summers short bitds of sun followed by long bits of rain
rain flooding changes in weather and wind
increased flooding issues in local area; weather patterns seem to have changed.
rain when it falls is definately heavier, more monsoon like/its hotter when its hot these days/the seasons blur together more ... there is less distinction between them /-
very unscientifically ive noticed the seasons disapering - milder continuos temeratures - very little devisation between the seasons / its always difficult to tell if there is more rain or not /-
less extremes - less hot summers and less snowy winters/-
weather patterns are much more severe now ... and unpredictable as well / ../-
when you are at school you tend to think everyday is sunny, but of course its not the case/-
more extremes of weather / more flash flooding due to lack of maintenance and hedge management / lack of maintenance on drainage systems /-
seasons changing / more flooding definately /-
the weather - its wetter / we have lost our seasons /-
insects maybe and all of the above no hoverflies no house martins some species of butterflies?
the weather changing/getting warmer in certain places and colder in others
things like changes to the flora and fauna and the weather//
much more rain/more hurricanes/seasons more mixed up//
flooding/weather is becomming more extreme/as a child i remember different weather/extremes are getting worse
SEEING THE WORLD CHANGE/EARTHQUAKES/HURRICANES ETC//
I would say the most change is in the summer and seasons generally
river rising neclect of rivers no seasons
We tend to get more weather extremes - like long periods of wet or dry.
weather patterns changing and weather becoming more extreme.
heat. we seems to be having no snow/warmer for longer
they have put wind farms which is a waste of money. they have made solo powers they have tried to use energy, tried to cut down down cole fire but fosal fule is not the big thing. they have the energy to tacle it.
more unpredictable weather/sea levels rising/ice caps melting/in this country our seasoins arent the same//
i remember as a child having snow in january now we can have snow in april and may/ more extreme weather//
floods/weather changes//increase in food prices//
no 4 seasons anymore. inconsistant weather and more commercial ie packageing food process which effect resorces.
getting alot warmer. cant tell difference from summer to winter
MORE TSUNAMIS MORE TORNADOES LAND DISAPPARING THERE IS MUCH MORE WATER/MY FLOWERS IN THE GARDEN DONT BLOOM WHEN THEY SHOULD/THEY ARE VERY CONFUSED CONKERS ARE NOT THERE AT THE RIGHT TIME
SIGNIFICANTLY WARMER/A BIT DRIER IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY
SUMMER NOT BEING SUMMER ANYMORE/ICE CAPS MELTING
Was born in USA, I have seen global warming before Reagan's time. I personally have done weather studies.
amount of rainfull in short periods ; Thames barrier being uaed more often
weather patterns changing; seasons changing; ice caps melting; sea levels rising
more extreme weather/even noticed sea level rise
in terms of gas electric, wather, heat waves//this year was more warm
i think that we noticed the change in season world wide which is impact of the climate change
summer has been drastic eg this year, the weather is not very good
winter have gone milder, summer is hotter, there is no really distint of the season
the storms are more damaging and frequent/more disease of trees/more pollution of rivers and seas/and more severe winters//
the seasons have moved a bit/mild winters and early springs out of season//
I've noticed - obviously we've got the sea coming over Dawlish./I don't know whether it's climate change but there's less birds - little birds./And we have slight extremes in weather - more than we're used to.//
Much warmer - we don't get the old colder winters any more or very very rarely./Drier summers and wetter winters - we don't seem to get thew definition of the seasons any more.//
I think more erratic weather/changes in the seasons/Earlier Springs.//
The seasons have changed./We get more floods - we get wetter summers in this area anyway.//
loss of biodiversity iwht differnet species coming in/ increased extreme weatehr difficult to attributre to random events and a lot ofpressure on immigraiton and diplacment of people comnnig in form affected areas of the world.
Weather wise, high tides and storms and floods.
I dont know if the sea coming ove ridsdirect but it hasnt happened before
The storms weve had. My sons block of flats werew completely demolished by the February storms. The vilage was blcoked with peooel being rescued by helictopter. It has been exterme weather
well when our kids winter was winter and summer was summer. you don;t know if its winter or summer now and we've not had many good summers for te past few year.
Winter is warmer now of course I have live din bermuda. I visisted as a little girl and now as on loder lady it is warmer. the cold parts of the year asre slightly warmer. Duyring the firece gales it wasn't freezing, just wild.
just from media coverage scientist reporting artic events raising the levle of sea.
the unpredictability of the weather, the change in seasons, ive seen documetatio0n of the ise melting and an enormous factor
less hot summers than when i was a child. and less harsh winters generally...
ive seen the desert spread in Spain. AFRICA HAS LESS RAINFAL TOO
ice melting, storms, weather in different seasons changing... snow in easter sort of thing..
home country getting hotter. heavier rainfalls. colder winters
the wether, the seasons have become completely not how they were. Flooding of course, weve had far more floods here havent we?
On the Tv with the ice melting. Change of climate, the weather become strange.. the seasons have changed i think...
we used to have very warm summers and cold winters, we dont seem to have that now
when i was a child, the summer were hot but now they are too hot, its like living abroad
when a child, a summer was winter, now god know what we get, its october now, and my heating isnt on, crops were affect last year, resulting in food being more expensive
see how my plants grown quicker, but die quicker aswell
no seasons, things are coming sooner,affecting insects,birds
seasons/you can grow things now, compared to years ago
The seasons are not as reliable as they were.Plants flowering at unuasual times. More droughts and floods in the news.
more severe weather events than there used to be /
more flooding,the weather is more extreme
the seasons have changed/ less snow/ not proper iwnters or summers compared to when i was a child
documentory about climate change made me believe it was happening/the weather is bizarre
the change in seasons/ the weather changing / more flooding/sink holes apperaring
visir to areas where i have noticed glacial retreats. increased rain fall. nfewer signs of crops due tp rain fall. spoken to local farmers about how they need to keep cattle inside due to weather. and inconsistent weather patterns
the water/ common floodings more frequent
not so extremely hot summers we used to get/just in recent years we do not get the heavy rainfalls we used to get/
the sun would sign for at least 6 weeks solid in the summer no stop/seasons are messes up//
the winters do not have much snow/it rareley gets very cold/summers are not very hot//
mainly the weather patterns and extreme weather
the birds, there were curlew's here when we came to live here and now i have noticed there are not too many sparrows around, tits and blck birds.
yes, maybe because im more aware of it now. but i can also remember big floods in the 50's so i don't know
Slight changes in the climate over the 95 years i've lived. apart from the natrual cycles I have noticed less thunder storms.
i hear the quotations that sea levels are rising
winters get milder/warmer in the summer and stays warmer longer/fruits ripen earlier in the season/
the weather does not seem to fit the seasons - for exmaple sunny in october
rising sea levels/changes in the seasons - everyones noticed that / desertification of spain
plants woods diseased trees brown spot/ asthma chest infections more frequent
more severe storms in countries abroad /
the weather/winters longer summers shorter/
you used to have nice summers when you were kids, now you never know from on e day to the next/seasons all higgeldy piggedly/even abroad the weather is different/all to pot
the winters seem to be mild about this time of year and snow seems to be late on beb/march/
in terms of winters used to be bad all the time and now we just don.t get it/the winters tend to be milder and wetter
this year never seen so many nuts on trees and leaves falling v quickly/ this summer v long
the weather summer at christmas/ snow in summer/ rain in summer when used to be mostly dry/ river now floods never did when a child/ snow not every year likewhen child/
rise in flooding/intensity of storms/waves/
flooding at christmas / all the rain we had last year
summers are getting longer and we havent had a bad winter for ages / there have also been several fllods in this area in recent years
well again what i said before, its water, and the amount of rainfall, it seems to me our seasons are changing slightly, they are not as strong as they used to be time wise
oh warmer summers wetter winter, actually drier summers, wetter and warmer winters
weatherwise, in the last five years, the weather has definitely changed
well i remeber before the war we used to have snow in london, quite deep, and you dont get snow there anymore, and in scotland the snow was so deep you couldnt get to school
its flooded locally twice in the past 2 years /definately getting colder weather in winter and warmer summers
ivs seen unexpected weather changes that have gone against predictions
flooding in november down south and on february this year//
severe flooding and snowstorms, warmer winter
more rainfall,stronger storms earlier springs milder winters sea levels
I think I have noticed changes, I think the winters are warmer than they used to be//
well the climate is always changing, I expect it and I observe it. as a fisherman the seasons have changed as to when the fish are coming up the exe estuary/anyone who fishes or shoots or spends a lot of time in the country will agree that there have been considerable seasonal changes. It's most noticeable that migratory fish have quite different patterns now//
more extreme weather conditions/changes in the seasonality of flora and fauna//
just the fact it seems hotter in october but I wouldn't necessarily say it's because of climate change//
the seasons are later and the rain that we have is more severe
flooding and more nsevere weather in winter
flooding /unpredictable weathe lack ofg seasons
melting ice caps depletion of ozone layer more extreme weather
flooding more frequently. Milder winters.
summers and winters have changed so much
tends to be wetter/flood events more common
increasing body of scientific literature supporting that climate change is happening
it is a lot wetter and windier than before, more tornadoes and tsumais than i remember
Increase in sea levels - the colder winters, flash floods and stuff.//
Destruction of the cliffs round here because the sea level is rising because the climate is changing melting the icecaps and the glaciers so that there's more liquid around.//
August's always wet - it's generally got warmer.//
the weather, in our particular place,dawlish, it has been very badly affected
seasons not as well defined; more freak weather; more reports of severe flooding; coastal erosion
the bell curve is flatteneing so more extreme weather is becomin more frequent asnd more volatile
We used to have white christmas/Individuals in the UK are able to make changes to their lofestyle that would help the enviorment/Actions in the UK would obly have a miminal effect on glabal warming adn climate change/ In order for the effects of climate change to be aneliorated coordinated internation al action is vital//
the summers are warmer/ The wimters are colder and wetter//
Yes I have seen/ especially in Argentina/ there was winter summer/ The seasons are always changing with storm and cold. There is not a set time for seasons/ Timing/ winter is sometimes very good climate//
Storms/ There are signs/ You enjoy the good climate/ You can not do everything else when its bad climate//
We have a summer house on a small island/ there is water sea is more pollution and low level of quality of water/ water pollution//
Raising sea levels/ Extreme weather patterns//
Weather change/ Longer summers/ less winter days//
last year about this time the area flooded and it scared us
flooding in this area / seasons dont seem to follow synch
winters are worse / then next year it is different / eartquake
worse weather all over the world / floods
changing weather events but that may be part of natural cycles
the arctic sheet diminishing/air pollution in greece/more extrme weater/rising sea levels/deforestation/a growing reaction against it/massive increase in platic baggage
More the effect of weather satterens being more sever
the seasons. that's climate change. but i do not believe that climate change is man made
not as much snow /summers are not as hot / no seasons //
yes the winters are not as bad as they used to be//
the weather/only had 1 bad winter/its certainly getting warmer//
temperature/water levels/and nature is changing all the time//
intense flooding more unpredictable seasonal changes.
far higher number of severe weather - hurricans rainfall - year on year increase in temperature
summers are getting shorter/more flooding
no clear seasons and changes in weather patterns
more uncertainty in the weather more extremes, less predictable
Changes in the seasons and changes in extremes of weather, now they're not even news anymore, major storms are on the increase and streaks, or trails, in the sky/the weather seems all over the place//
Noticed the seasons have moved /summer months seem to overlap into winter months and so on /
when I was achild wehad less mild winters /
sea levels will go up/ice caps are melting /
winters were winter and seasons were obvious /
Increase in temparture - weather changes
weather - its far different to when i was younge r
changing nweather patterns milder winters wetter summers
More extreme storms and more storms./No snow - milder weather.//
It's warmer./2014 is the hottest year on record./Temperatures are getting warmer in general.//
Here the weather seems to be changing in Britain./We seem to be having more and more storms. And around the world not having the winters like they do -up in Finland with the permafrost melting.//
I've noticed I can grow grapes in the garden and in October I've got busy lizzies out the front./High winds, more rain - shorter summer season I think.//
remember severe winters ./now not happening /
weather shorter summers/wetter winters /
remember when I was a child we often had snow at least every winter /
winters are warmer seasons less predictable
I think the winters are getting a bit warmer, we don;t seem to have such cold, harsh, freezing conditions and I don't think the summers are as hot as they used to be either//
increased rainfall and more erratic rainfall patterns/world weather events as well getting worse//
Warmer autumns and winters not as cold//
increased flooding in recent years, milder wetter winters/the extremes have been greater than they used to be//
more erratic weather, sea level rising//
bad storms, but whether these would have happened anyway or not I don't know//
MORE RAIN AND HIGHER WINDS AND A SHIFT IN THE SEASONS.WE ARE NOT GETTING PROPER SEASONS THEY ARE ALL MERGING.THE SEVERN BORE IS BEGGINING TO BREAK THROUGH THE DEFENSES .
watch wild life seen change to animals and trees
all winters use d to b colder but now they r not
MORE STORMS MORE FLOODING FLASH FLOODING SEASONS ARE MUDDLED UP
changes in the weather it is very unexpected and the seasons are not predictable and each year can vary a lot from previos years
THE WEATHER HAS CHANGED AND SUBSIDENCE IS HAPPENING
MORE FLOODING LOCALLY SEASONS ARE NOT PREDICTABLE LIKE THEY USED TO BE AND IT IS GETING WARMER
used to be colder in winter and hotter in summer
brook broke its banks, sea wall damaged, storms
droughts in Africa - ozone hole - possibly natural cycle
weather changes warmer winters more rain
countries beimg affected and the ice caps melting
definately warmer winters and more incidents of heavy rainfall in summer / directly linked to that is the flowering of plants and shrubs into the autumn/-
well i think i would say there is a lot more ebb and flow of heat,coldness and rainfall ...- it feels much more inbalanced somehow/-
colder winters and more snow - its steadily getting colder and colder in winter /-
changes to weather patterns - the seasons /-
weather changing, warmer. tides are changing, coming in more
the floods ,more floods, changes in the weather

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had sympathy for people who were flooded and there effects destroyed
the floods only really affected me in a minor way / there were a lot of peolpes lives that were ruined and is still being ruined , with winter approaching now how must they be feeling
there was nothing i could do about bit / the somerset levels . the people that could have done something about it ignored it for years ,
because it was through local council issues that caused a lot of the flooding
that i chose the place where i live not being on a flood plane.
towards strongly affected/consideration for people suffering
houses were built on areas prone to flooding and should not have been built there
the way community pulled together/givenaccommadation/special collections
to loose your whole property/home was disasterous
i had feelings for the people who were affected
i would not like to be in that position myself
because i felt sorry for the people, i saw it on the news all the homes and people flooded, reminded me of my home country nigeria, when disaster happens
i felt sympathy towards the people suffering because they were left to suffer in a situation which they could not control, it was sad, they were offered no help by those who could i.e. the government
my mums home and area were badly damaged in the flood i was surprised how bad it was//
because the floods were part nature and part too much concrete and tarmac loss of dykes//
i understand what the flooded go through
because people have helped each other out //
felt this for the people going through the floods
felt for the people involved, having never suffered this here
my brother was badly affected by the flooding, he lost months and is still trying to rebuild his business//
i think to be flooded out can be one of the worst things that happens to you, some people are not even back in their homes now//
really sympathy for people int he middle of the village who had a very bad time, so unnecessary.
all the people and farmers that got flooded
just a hopeless cause / flood victims are still not back in their homes now
just watvhing the stuff on the news about people losing their houses and livlihoods
we couldnt really stop the floods . i didnt have the power to stop them
because people,s homes and lives were being devastated and most people have no concept of what this is like
i was driving around fllod affected areas and one of the buildings i visisted had been badly damaged
i don,t like to see anyone lose their home and business.
because of families losing their homes and possessions
because global warming is a thing and does exist and can happen anywhere. You're just glad the flooding didn't happen in my area
i come from a farming background so felt sympathy for the farmers who may have lost livestock and the use of their land for quite some time
nobody was helping them and they needed more support and the council should have helped more e.g. chertsy, datchet
for all those people that suffered during the floods, it was bad watching it on tv and seeing their homes flooded badly, it was a shock this happened in the UK, normally happens in poor countries
im just so glad that i lived on the second floor, dont have to worry about floods luckily
we were very lucky no floods and felt bad or sorry for the people effected
because you cant get the things done the way i want
grateful that i live on a hill and not a flood plain
feel sorry for those whose homes have been badly damaged or have been put on hold
i wasn't as affected as some were, grea t friends around me phoning to ask if ok, my work colleagues helped, got sandbags sorted, rides and lifts left right and centre, all in all i did fine/ overall i am thankful, i do believe in God that is very important to me//
we were informed our road was not to be affected but our road was a hot spot and we were not able to get help like sandbags, it was the neighbours who helped everyone and got sandbags, i got angry becausen i had no control over it//
i felt so sorry for them having to lose so much, problems with insurance claims
the houses in the valley nearby and other which were built in flood-prone areas. the authorities had a likleyhood that these ares would flood.
the shock of seeing what happened and the power and force of the wind and water
I felt alot of sympathy with those people who were flooded out of their homes
felt bad for my mum and my friends that suffered extreme difficulty (they had to lift up the carpets, furniture was ruined/ created a lot of upheaval and stress for them)/ also felt sorry for other people generally as some people don't choose to have insurance
because it didn't directly affect me so its hard to fill the other emotions
because when you see the situation its like your friend or your family, i love people and if i can do something for them i can do it. When i saw the news i saw no one was caring about them i felt sorry for them and wish i could do something for them in any way
i felt sorry for the poeple who lost their homes and their livelihood, they lost theirs fa.rms and food, and i was annoyed with the government
the way the local community acted together and basically helped everyone within the village when the houses started flooding and after the floods/local school was a base/roadblocks to stop looters/local builder helped with sandbags
the entire community came together and supported each other before the council and services arrived/pride in how we managed the situation before and after help arrived/there were roadblocks to stop looters/flood wardens and a flood emergency team
sympathy for the people who have lost their homes and for the disruption the floods caused/you think it could have been us/
through no fault of their own, entirely due to incompetence of environmnent agency, peoples homes flooded, transport, work effeceted, may be out of houses for ages, insurance problems. all environment agencies fault//
because we have no control over what needs doing to protect communities from flooding. The Govt reduced maintenance funding to the Environment Agency and so shemes such as drredging have been seriousdly reducerd over the years.//
people are busy leading their own lives, all this stuff in thenews goes over your head//
My neighbours house oppisite me and people at work were far more effected by floods than me
because water was getting closer to my property/coming up to neighbours garden
becuase felt so sorry for eldery and less able people in old windsor who were flooded for weeks and experienced great distress as a result of the flooding
i cant control the situation of rising water
because it was more about publising the issue than actually helping people which saddened me
people had lost everything including their sentimental possesions.
seen river flood before but never to that extent. This time water right across main roads and submerged friends houses
motivated to take action to protect my property - building walls around property
I went round area and saw neigbours being flooded
because when the floods happened it wasn't something that i had control over and felt helpless
people losing their homes and belongings
feel sorry for the loss of their possessions, their homes and their life and just all the disruption and damage to their life
when you saw people on tv helping each other
the sheer extent of the flooding it was unprecedented
as living in a 0 risk area I felt helpless about the people affected
It is very difficult not to feel this for the people suffering from the floods
the plight of people affected was very distressing
just for the people becoming homeless elderly and children friends were homeless 4 and 5 months and structural damage
for the people who lost their homes and belongings elderly people moved out from sheltered housing for 6 months or more
anger at the lack of govt funding they knew what was going to happen
because i have been through flooding myself before so i empathised
we are ok but they are not so feel sorry for people especially when it happened at christmas. felt dreadfully sorry.
that i felt so bad for those people who lost their livelihoods and their homes and it happened more than once especially over christmas how they must have felt/
from the news it was reported quite sympathetically and felt sorry for the people affected.
feel really sympathetic for all the people caught up in the flooding, affects their whole lives.
sympathy for people in village whose home are roun
did come from river i came through drain
never happen here before in my 20 yesrs on this road
I would not want my home flooded. Know people who have been.
my friends are floodes and damage peoples properties
sympathy towards the people affected by flooding which caused a lot of distress
i feel sorry for the elderly to go through this and belongings ruined
just because it must be absolutely awful and must be terrible to lose your home
because3 they left the poor buggers to suffer before they bothered to help them
Ihave sympathy for the poor and things often hit the poor where it hurts.
it is not nice to see such things happening to people.
seeing ppl on tv brings it home and you know ppl are suffering , being rescued
feel sorry for ppl involved, homes ruined
because of the news i knew that ppl had been trapped and lost posessions
this flodding can affect my future life, my sons, my job and its justice
we never got it, but sympathetic for those affected, especially christmas
there were ppl on streets, couldnt help them, keep them warm, stop the flooding
i felt sad because of ppl losing their homes, belongings, even lives
SORRY FOR PPL FLOODED, GOVT COULD HAVE DONE MORE, CHRISTMASES RUINED
getting more distressed when flooding happened
because it is important to empathise with other humans when they're going through bad times//
sympathy for people i knew, friends & family & people I heard about on the news//
because people who live have no home there anymore//
i was angery because didnot went out for few days to work.
when you see what happen to other people,far worse satuition
seen worse flooding /was surpise to see first time
lot of people were effected .they didnot have not where to go.
Because I had a cousin and 4 friends who were directly affected on one was out of their home for a considerable time because of it.//
Because it didn't affect me personally./It didn't have any effect on my business.//
Because houses got washed away./Didn't affect me personally but it was a pretty bad thing to happen.//
For the people who were flooded - farmers./Cause I was involved through my work./For the Environment Agency.//
I have a ot sympathy with the people whe were severely affected by the floods.//
pictures on TV....it could have been me...distress of losing possessions and damage flooding can do.
wathing people dealing with the consequences
i justvfelt sorry for the people concerned
I just felt sosorry for the people who were flooded out
just had no feelings about flodds and people should be careful where they live
because it is the effects that are being seen in england the effects of climate change are closer to home
the people were losing everything and there pets were at risk/the cat is my life/
just the way everyone came together to help everybody out/raising a lot of money to help out/general pride in my country
just for sorry for the poor people losing their homes/they have lost everything/and the smell of sewerage
it reinforces the motivation in regard to what I want to do with regard to climate change
the repetition of the events was not right
seening peoples's houses destroyed-human sufferings
sad to see other families struggling with the flood when the respond is understandably slow.
i felt sorry for the people who experienced the flooding especially those who suffered due to bad planning.
sympathy for the people that suffured flood
pride the militry got involved and helped the villages to reduce water levels
by watchinig the suffering of others on the tv and it could easily be me next time
i know what water damage does to your house so i was very grateful that it wasnt me. probably mean house insurance impossible afterwards so i am happy dont have to worry here.
sympathy for people involved in the flooding because they lost their homes and belongings and especially over Christmas
suprised at the severity in certain areas of Newbury
not being able to help/live too far away
i felt sadness for the victims of the floods, some elderly people were effected their homes damaged, they could get any help in time due to being isolated in heavy rain waters, also no insurance cover to help them financially, so they lost out
if they have had a flood and it destroyed stuff i feel sorry for them
felt so sorry for these people were losing their homes and livelihoods with no immediate help
Seeing farmers livelihood and peoples hopmes being destroyed by water.
It affected peoples home where they felt secure, houses were damaged. They felt homes were invaded by something beyond there control.
because this is England and it should not have happened!
i was sympathatic because there were children family old people were effected
there were so much flooding in windsor and dechated area near us .
because people lost there sence of security
seeing the suffering from the people down south
because it affected so many people both locally and on a national basis
because friend s wtih some of the local people whose businesses were affected
felt sorry for the people who were caught up in it, losing there homes and everything they had, and having to wait a long time to get their homes back in order
because i absolutley love watching the sea when its wild and nature in full force and it was a privilidge to be able to witness that and i was totally safe where i am
because it didnt really affect me personally here, i wasnt in an area where it was really affecting me, apart from the rain coming in
newly married couple affected in thames valley/house affected
cant do anything aboutit/anger at decisions previosly/peoples own fault
because people lost thier belongings . properties etc
Because they had no where to go. People lost their belongings
Because there was nothin i could do to help
i was surpirse to see floods in uk .world climate is changing
felt bad for family who have young children
The difference between the reaction to help those suffering when comparing those in London and rural areas
Probably because you heard people got together to help each other in affected areas.
I felt very sympathetic for other people.
because people losing their houses and having to go temporary accomodation etc and the stress and damage to their property it was a sad and bad time for them. i felt sympathy
Because you would not want flooding to happen to anybody.
I felt sorry for the people who lost their things
I was saddened what happened to the worse affected
for the worst affected people bearing in mind they know how this area is affected
i fell for the peopel who are affected by the floods
because i saw in my area lot of peopel flooded
i have never seen flooding like it in my life
there didn't seem to be a lot of help/it all happened at the end
Foe the people who were stranded due to the floodings
because it could happen to anybody . I felt sorry for the flood victims
Because its human nature to feel for other people in distress
felt for the people affected by the flood
Sympathy for the people who lost things in the floods and damage to property and businesses that were struggling beforehand.//
When you see someone happen to people they can't live vin their housew they can't do anything ab out it I think the support is very slow in coming. You still see people waiting now for compensatrion or any form of official help.//
For what other people were suffering. The Somerset levels there it was wet & muddy in a modern society being without power and all the rest of it is not very good./We were aware of it, you know.//
Because for the people who have suffered./I've got to qualify it by saying - they live in flood plains - n Somerset - and anybody who builds in a flood plain.//
Because it's knocked the familes about and taken their homes away from them so they've got nowhere to live - and it's destroyed businesses and farms.//
because there waas nothing happening, we had a set of very high tides but they didnt threaten us because they didnt reach a point where they were going to invade the lane, weve had a new flood prevention scheme here so we were fine with that and it hasnt yet been put to the test
i was sad that people kept losing property because it wasnt just once it was all the time
ok well i suppose the feeling was the way that the community overall has responded to the plight of we who suffered from the storms, we were virtually living in a disaster area
i empathise with people over the effects of the flooding because i have experienced it myself in the past
it was basically unessasary, becasue the government was saving money by not dredging the damn rivers, if the rivers are silted up the water is not going to run away, its common sense
anger with gov/lack of response/no help from gov for farmers moving animals/lots of things politicians could have done earler to help/
just for people whose house was flooded or businesses flooded
felt sypathy for other people in times of trouble and distress
i felt sorry for people losing their homes and belongings, their homes being destroyed, its was such a nightmare for them i felt sorry for them, such a huge clearup mess afterwards,
we were let down by our political masters particularly the environment agency/lack of water management for this area.
feel sympathic towards the older population certainly those who retired to bungalows close to the river/and how they have been treated poorly during and after floods and continue to be treated poorly by all authorities concerned i.e. the environment agency/the government/insurance companies and the local authority
wrasbury is a small village the government did not really help us at all they focussed on helping the areas surrounding and only when one of our townspeople spoke up did they supply sandbags and additional help from the Army/
you dont know what is going to happen in the future/the ground water was rising it was not flash flooding/you went to sleep and in the morning the garden was flooded/you know you are in a flood area and you wonder next time it floods how high it will go/my anxiety increases each time i see cars parked outside my end of the street because during the last flood people moved their cars to my end of the road
lots of people we know were flooded out and have moved away from all their friends and we dont know when they are coming back the builders are still in their homes and lots of the houses are still empty
there was a lot going on and it disrupted my work/school schedule
because i thought i would have to be evacuated from my home/where would we stay and what would happen to my animals (pets)/possesions destroyed/house unfit to live in after the flood//
because it must be terrible for ppl who have lost verything in the floods/
poor people being out of their houses for a long time//
because we dont know what the tide is going to do//
because friends who spent a lot of money on their home were 2 feet under water//
feel very sorry for the people who had been flooded
just feeling for the people around me that had been flooded
Flood defences bult by government caused the floods in Datchet
sadness for the people who got flooded and the things that they have lost
Was on holiday at start of floods so had to return
Awful to see how the floods affected people who were unable to cope with it. This applied especially to the elderly
housing policy of building on flood plains
people affected/copassion of people being flooded
grateful did not happen to me/i moved from flooding area to proprty on higher area
Because I'm a pensioner living on my own with a bad back.
Felt for people that lost sentimentel things and homes were ruined. Esopecially the eldery
feel sympathy for people in village flooded. Much more closer to home this time - 1st time its flooded our road
just good to see neighbours/not like birthplace in Wales. Nice to see sense of community kick-in during flooding. Generally people keep themselves to themselves.
whawhat a terrible experience for the flood victims
Hoe would I have felt if it happened to me
Felt that it could have been avoided with dredging and got the army in to help sooner
I felt helpless as I am blind and felt I could not help in any way
Peoples homes were flooded and felt for them
My friends son had to leave his house at 1 am due to the floods. It took me 5hrs to get to Oxford through all the areas that had been affected.
just worried about my house been flood it because i live with children
the affect on the community, wildlife, elderly, children and the struggle the village faced was awful. Knowing their homes and environment was ruined by the flooding.
i see my friends geting affected by flood
because peole I know who were affected severely by floods
from my own position I have realised person with disablities could be badly effected by flooding
seeing people in distress at that time of year/ people lossing personal items and suffering hardship due to flooding
unable to help my friend who lost her property as result of floods / not being able to prevent problems
seeijng people who had majour problems and some people having the problem more than once
felt sore for material loss due to floodding
sympathy for the people who lost the contents of their home
sympathy for the people that where flooded
seeing people who had their house flooded
people who live near rivers should expect flooding
All the people who got flooded and lost everything.//
It's just that being a homeowner you feel if the house gets flooded they've got nowhere to go./Just seeing it on the television and the Somerset levels.//
I actually spoke to people who lost their homes and lost things that couldn't be replaced./To be told you've got to leave your home and where do you go?//
You don't expect your railway line to be washed away,do you./We don't use the trains - if you've got a car and you're one a pension you can't use the trains.//
I was sad that I've been comning down here for 30 years and it had all kind of gone wrong.//
cos we were the only ones to get the flooding apart from Wraysbury/cos its frustrating we got it and no one else did/ just a general feeling of anger//
because the neighbours around there everyone mucked in cos i didn't drive, everyone helped me with sandbags, and shopping especially my sons best friend. everyone was very kind, i was very grateful//
especially when datchet experienced electricity cut and all in darkness and alarms going off/ friends were calling and i had no battery and my husband was at work and it was a great deal of stress and anxiety//
wanted vols to help, myself and neighbour eredted flood barrier which had a major impact on village not flooding, felt aability to help and do something, sense of community spirit/ pride at what emergency services did esp the armed forces//
sympathy for other people in neighbbouurhood who were more strongly hit//
sympathise with people that lost their homes, effect on lives//
all the animals what happenede to them , no crops to feed them, we at least have half a chance to sort ourselves out//
lots of people further down were flooded out//
because it wasnt affecting me directly but it was just down the road//
the government werent doing enough to help//
farmers were abbliterated by a freak of nature with no help from anyone//
Watching the distress caused to homes and business. Ihave seen what can happen
The disruption to peoples lives and the damaged caused
for people who flooded who disrupted their lives
we saw the impact on people lives and well being
daily data leaving , walking in the flood water
The flooding destroyed peoples lives total devastation to local communities-
Delay in dealing with matters for people
The extent of the floods and the impact caused from them
Thought about myself on this occasion and felt sorry for what they were experiencing
i am pleased i am livin g away from thje floods
because i thought the government would have helped from previous yeasr. it would not have been so bad if the govt had done what they said they would do and helped them to prepare.
very sad that they have lost tgheir homes, some of them for the second time.
feel sympathy for them then get angry about why happened. think thye govt did not put measures inb place to prevent it
its makes life turmoil when flooding happens
the government wont listen and they let these things happen
seeing your fellow human beings in such pitiful and sad circumstances through no fault of ltheir own/
i feel if that was me you would want people to be empathetic towards me in that position/
i was surprised at the extenet of the flooding/and i felt sorry for all those poor people who were flooded for so long and for the second time/
in the way that i wasn;t ignoring but I didn;t understand what it would feel like and I had different things that were happeneing to me that were more important and so I focussed on those instead
you feel so sorry for the people whebn you see their homes flooded, and it will be a long long time before any normality appears in their lives
inability to be able to do anything about it/trouble is it is there the floods and you cannot do anything about it//
lack of notice and rumours that flooding due to environmanetal Agency works/elderly neighbours were left with no help/there was no plan it was disorganised/my son could not get to school//
the roads at the arches flood everytime we get a couple of days rain / its because they dont bother to clean the drains and ditches out if they did a bit more maintenance it wouldnt keep happening
Because of not knowing if flood would effect me
because the force of nature is beyond what we could do, we have no control of the weather
just a shock at the speed of the rising water
nothing i could do if the floods happened
i was alone and it was dark and i thought we would flood
people affect and their properties destroyed
country geting back to look after each other
how could you not feel sorry for people who had 5 feet of water in the house and cant live there for 6 months
because of bad floods in somerset levels and datchet. dreadful to have alll that damage in your house
you werent worried about the floods for myself. BUt alot of freinds wwerer
Because although not extremely serious around here. It was bad nearby and not pleasent for those people
anyone could be in that situation ,some have no insurance
peoples lives disrupted and financially, emotionally
mainly beacause its ongoing and doesnt get sorted//
sympathise with families that were floided//
its more empathy than sympathy/i can imagine how they felt//
people are suffering by flood, no electricity & no gas in the winter time.
our living condition was better then them
if i was in their place, i would be sufferer like them
i feel sorry for them people flooded out/
they pay for insurance but it is a struggle to get a payout //
i was worried that my home might be flooded abd got sandbags
felt sorry for people loosing their hones and possessions
what can i do if it happens never been in to situation before
soffr for people that lost things in flood //
i know what floods are like in extreme details, the diseases and how long it takes to sort out, the catastrophic effects on peoples lives, they can never recover from it , they can replace the possessions but emotionally, this is from having direct contact with flood victims, the insurance companies get a bad press but the problem is there are not enough building contractors and it takes a long time to dry out, it takes months if not years to recover from it. you know these people feel absolutely helpless there is nothing they can do about it
felt sorry for peoplw who experienced floods
watching on news peoples houses flooded made me feel helpless
i felt so sorry for the people whose homes were flooded
felt sorry for people whose homes had been flooded
Because they were in the middle of it all - these people down at the railway there./We were on the spot -we're only a mile away.//
Anxious for what the future holds on the basis of what's been happening over that period because it seemed never-ending./Such a sustained period of bad weather.//
I work for a farming supplies company - I know how hard the farmers work to lose their harvest it has quite an impact on their livelihoods.//
Sympathy for others because some people were rendered homeless and they'd lost all their possessions./All on TV wasn't it?//
When I lost my van the road wasn't marked as closed, there were no depth levels on the road,and my insurance went up,liability went up because I had to pay for the parcels on the back./It was not a cheap day.//
due to floods, lots of peoplr died & homeless
lots of people become homeless, no food , no power etc
i felt sad when on saw on tv what had happened to peoples homes
i felt it was terrible for people to have their lives ruined and felt they did not get the help they deserved to get
People of Egham Hythe have been moved out of their homes and the COuncil and Insurance compnaies have dragged their feet in fixing the damage and allowing them to return.
unsure whether the water would reach us put off a trip to amsterdam
for people who were affected by the floods families with children who had to leave their homes
felt sorry for some people who had they homes spoilt by water homimg into where they live and for small businesses
I felt sympathy for those people who were directly affected
The poor people who were flooded because it takes a long long time to get straight again
becuase wathched it on the new and felt i coulodnt help
well its not a nice thing to have your possions ruined and move out of your house
am anxieus that we dont make people and animal lives a priporoity and we are illequipt in responding
we didnt have the problkems others did / sad for those that did
The people who lost their jobs or had them disrupted, losing cattle etc.
for the people we saw on tv, houses and lives wrecked and distressed, we sit here on high ground surrounded by water but not affected
Round here there's always flowers, boxes of chocolates going round, people helping out / old people get their shopping done by the guys with 4wd.
THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED ME OUT - A LOT OF FREINDS HELPED PUT THE MATTERS RIGHT AGAIN
The amount that was done by childs school (because it was flooded and closed for 6 weeks)to keep education going.
Sorry about people locally who lost their home. Although we wernt effected a lot of people close by were - it was very visible to us
Because it wasnt me affected by the flooding on 3rd floor of flats.
people homes that are destroyed. dont want it to happen but will happen if build on a river bank
people in summerset levels had a difficult times //
teh stupidity of people to buy houses in a known flood area. byer be ware.
grateful for the fact that people came together and supported each other
sorry for all the people loosing there holmes
sympathy for those that had been affected by the floods
I feel some sympathy towards them but why buy a house knowing it's on a flood plane..
I think there is a lot more things that can be done There needs to be joined up thinking by the people at the top that have the power to make these things happen
I feel sorry for them becauuse with floods it takes ages for everything to dry out and you're left with the smell and they're out of their homes and the things they lose with their homes
I felt fairly indifferent about the situation because it didn't really affect me Also, if you're stupid enough to buy a house that has been built on a flood plane then what do you expect? But it's also the developers that should take the blame for building there in the first place
seeing people having to move out of their homes
for the people that where affected by the floods
it can not be good for the people that are flooded
sympathy for the people and the flood victims of flooding in general
for all the people who had to clean up after the floods
other factors that come into - losing all your possions, living in a hotel. NOt knowing outcomes
The rteaction of the communicty and doing what you would hope human beings would do in simliar circumstances/despite less community sprit from 50 years ago
If rivers flooding there nothing you can do - resignation to any damage caused
your house is the most important thing and when you see what other people have experienced that makes me sad as they did not cause it - the balance is uposet
the council putting on coaches in place of cancelled\transport to still be able to travel
people losing their homes because they felt helpless and the help given them was very poor
some people were struggling to get through the water in their area
due to red alert and my bedroom is in lower floor area basement I was strongly advise no to use//
old people were suffering by cold weather
It was my first time I Heard,that flood was taken place in britain as a rich nation
because i was totally unable to do anything about it
relate to people, their whole lives affected
watching the tv nad seeing the people where the water level was raising and you wanted to help
the wall, they knew a weakness but they didnt do anything about it, the wall being the sea wall
just wondering what the council or anybody was doing about it
any one thats flooded, some got 8 feet of floods, so you did feel sorry for them
just when you see people on tv how bad it effected there lives
being a hairdresser, i had clients who had to move out, other people went to village halls for shelter, farmers losing stock,fields underwater, i felt very sympathetic.
other people literally lost everything - the tv and sofa can be replaced, ornaments, apintings can't, just horrible
my freinds almost lost their living room - its taken till now to fix.
it really had no effect on me at all / i just read about it in the paper or on tv
the way people build in iappropriate places they build all in concrete so water has no where to go
i felt sympathy for the people down south
because the victims lost nearly everything
do not like to see anyone suffer be it family or anyone else
it was night and council were all around
just had a nervous breakdon prior to floods
the not knowing because i was 50 miles away
seing people who lost all their possseeions
It was the people who's homes were flooded. I felt sympathy for them losing such important things./Mementoes and the difficulty in getting it straight - the smell and the sludge - and the farmers losing their livelihoods and the animals.//
Because we've known about this for some time and nothing was done./we've known climate changhe has been going on - we've known from the Somerset levels how long was going on but nothing was to help them.//
Sympathy for the people up at the railway who had their houses damaged or destroyed and the people who had their jobs put on hold because the railway couldn't work.//
Pride in the way the government did a very good job./The workmen done a good job under extreme conditions.//
Because for some people I could do something - for others I couldn't do anything but I still felt sympathy./Sympathy for people and for their loss of property.//
live in a better area than people who were affected, so felt sympathy for what they were exp-eriencing
i wouldn't want to be in that positon myself(experiencing e4ffectt sof flooding)
what other people were going through made me feel that way
when you see businesses affected disrupting lives and losing property makes me feel sadness towards them
we cant help people down the country, as we a stuck here
im the kind of guy, that would give others sympathy
local councill/police/worked very hard to stop flood getting out of hand//
due to lack of defence system at local river banks panic took over and people were put on alert which made them more concerned//
country like UK to have floods simply due to drainage not coping was absolute surprise to me & family back home//
because you can sympathis when people are struggling
I feel the country could have done more to prevent the floods.
Driving a minibus with special needs children, I was anxious we might get caught in flood water.
becauase they shouldn't have to exprience this at all becuase the government shouldn't have build house in flood prown arears
i feel bad for those who have lost their home and thbeir posessions been destroyed
Gratgeful it wasnt my house or anyone i know
i just felt sorry for all the people who had been flooded the pictures on the tv was awful especially just before christmas
for those who had been flooded i felt desperatly sorry it must be awful
i feel much more could have been done to prevent this
you feel some sympathy with people who were flooded but some of them could have helped themselves more
i just felt sorry for families who lost every thing in the floods
it really dosnt affect me / i dont really know much about it
it was annoying but it did not impact me massively
I sypthasise with all those all people that have lost home and possessions.
Feel sorry as experienced from friends in family in 2007
Because we know we are in the flooded area and we keep building houses. There is 300 houses due to be built. So there is no where for the water to go and this will make the situation worse
because i wasnt directly affected by it or the area and i was very grateful for that
angry because the victims werent helped quickly enough and the government had ignored warning signs//
feel sorry for people who lost their possesions, homes and even their lives//
sympathy for people flooded out of there homes
because had bought htere houses on good land and found out they had bought on a flood plane
because people were put out of their homes in th4e flood
in this country we are not very prepared for natural disasters
how could you not, when peoples lives were being devisatated
Feel sorry for people who were effected by the floods
because i was feeling sympathy for a lot of neighbours and friends who i knew who were flooded
Becuase some peoples homes were destryed and there didnt seem to be a great deal of support for people in that situation
Im living in a 1st floor flat so could have been much more effected - but know of work colllegues/friends who were badly effected by the flooding.
how quickly water had risen in local canal which caused red alert for our area//
gloucester could not cope with heavy rain/militery was not available earlier
well yes i did genuinely feel sorry the people in somerset where not only were there extensive floods but they went on for so long
well i think its just you know you could be there, the decisions i made to buy a house i used to live in salford, occasionally a road used to flood due to drains and got water in cellar so have experienced very mild examples of flooding, but the main thing if i was to move to somewhere it would be a major concern, before it wasnt something you really thought about//
sympathy for others more affected than we were
not a lot you can do about it no sand bags were provided
did not expect the floods and ignored the phone call warnings
Anxiety because of what damage can be done
Watched peoples belongings being destroyed by the floods
i had seen other paoles hoiuses been flooded
because my friends who were flooded where previously flooded
because it happens and theres nothing they can do about it, its all down to the powers that be
because living here,the roof still isnt fixed yet and the thought of having to go through all that again. been telling the landlord to do it over and over and he still hasnt and i cant believe im going to have to go through all that again
i cant remember what i felt indiffernt about
it was for 2 reasons, one for the people who may have had to edure discomfort here and two as a pre cursor to time s ahead
the animals, and there was nothing done, not dredging the rivers
floods were caused by mistake due to the water board opened the flood gates, which caused the flood
i feel for the people years ago because i experienced flooding nyself/the river burst its bank and our house was severely flooded/the water marks never went even after papering the walls/nothing was ever the same/-
because i felt sad for the people who had been flooded/you couldnt help them because we are seperated by geographical areas/-
people cant prepare and prevent what would happen/-
because i have a lot of empathy with other people/i feel their greif or pain/and loss/-
because peoples daily routine was damaged/and their homes/its not their fault/some people get affected more than others and its not fair/-
impact on peoples lives for those who were floode
anger towards people that live in these areas for years and nothing has been done about it//
felt sorry for people that were affected by floods cos we werent and were quite lucky//
because it could have been prevented and having expierienced it myself i felt deep sympathy//
understaning the position they are in and feel for them
the location of the places that flooded was because the water backed up the drains and flooded them
i was sympathetic towards the people who had their houses flooded
For the peopl whose homes were affected and the fright of it all./One of my friends - it was his house that had the big hole under it.Also what happened in Somerset.//
Basically I have to go and pick up my daughter every other weekend and it made my travelling extremely stressful.//
A lot of people offered a lot of support./Because of the circumstances of grandma's ashed in a pot in the garden that got taken down the river.//
B ecause one morning when I went to my client's house it was filled up with water and apolice officer sent me to the leisure centre where they were keeping all these people and I saw all these people in tears - and the whole bottom of my client's flat was full of sewage.//
well there is a sense that you are far away and its sad that you do feel helpless about it
for the people that lost houses all their contents, all the businesses that were affected, the pier has only just reopened and and still cant go on the out side of it cos its unsafe
well simply for the people who were caught in the floods and having to move house
feeling helpless and sorry for people because you cant do anything for them, all the businesses, it was heartbreaking to see what they went through, they had to leave with just a case or what they could carry, some couldnt even leave in their cars because they couldnt get their cars out, all the people in town were giving them meals and trying to do as much as they could for them to help them out
just sad seeing peoples things washed into the sea basically, people that you work with and stuff
because you dont like to see people suffer/-
because people with families and young children being flooded out of their homes/farmers loss of crops &livelyhoods/-
many problems for people in flooding of their house/living problems were very difficult/-
because its the first time it has happened in my lifetime/-
because it is your home virtually destroyed in front of you/the unknown not knowing when in will happen again/the unknown is the worst/most distressing nt knowing if it will happen again/a lot of people have had to demolish their homes//
nan's family home got destroyed/it had to be demolishedand is only just being rebuilt 7 months after the floods//
initial lack of action by peple other than local indv who were doing their best during the flooding/almost flooded in 2003 and no clear action from that when it was obviously likely to happen again//
essentially we were flooded but our next door neighbour welcomed us me and 3 kids to share their home as it was on higher ground//
just because ppl were losing their homes and livlihoods/losing possessions and mementos that would never be replaced/seeing some ppl were feeling helplesss and seeing ppl in distress//
people were without homes/disruption/involved with people who had problrms
so many people turned up trumps /paid and unpaid provided food money/clothing
not ony here everybody got stuck in to help
people had to move out/loss of important things/unsettling for children
AL BECASUSE OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT GOT AFFECTED
because i was affected very mildly while there were some people who lost their homes
never seen anything like it in the area where we live
sad for all people/not first time/nothing done to rectify problems/govt indifferent
no affect on me or family/no right to an opinion
sympathy for all who lost every thing/could all have been avoided
to see people suffering through no fault of their own
Uncertain as to how bad the flood was going to get. Would it go above the floor baords ?
that it is very disruptive and all your things are ruined
just from the news looking at those poor people whose lives were completely blighted by it, there was a couple who had gone back into the house after the waters had gone and watching them cry at everything they had lost,
did not know anything about the flooding, never heard of it
I felt so sorry for those who had lost everything
The way everyone came out and helped those who needed it
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concern that river would flood home as river levels were rising
empathising with those whose homes have been flooded
friend of family member was killed in the floods.
shock to system - my mums house was badly effected. Uncertainity of how much water. water coming up through back garden - getting higher and higher.
because i know people whos houses were trashed and little old ladys who have no insurance
because of houses quite close who were upto thier waists in water.
just peoples lives are at risk people weree not ngetting help
because i knew someone who lost a child thriugh the floods
river banks were over flowing/draines could not cope with heavy rain fall//
local authority worked round the clock to stop water from reaching our area//
the water level rose very quickly due to draines not able to cope/river level started to rise faster then anticipated by experts on the ground//
Felt sorry for the people who were flooded#
Had a sick mother in house so had to get rehoused
proud at how everyone rallied round and helped, it was brilliant/
grateful that we live here and have got land round us where water can disperse so dont get affected//
how long do you want/because of all the houses being built there are too many pipes being laid and cannot cope. People make their homes and are not adbvised of the high risk of flooding and loose everything they have worked for. DIstressing
cause of the family having to deal with it
I didn't experience the floods first hand but felt for those who had.
you would feel sorry for people whose lives were disrupted
you felt sympathy for the people affected
because of the problems it caused to people
because i saw people I knew being made to leave their homes /
thought we were going to get flooded out
the flooding was new to the area and not happened before
they knew they were going to happen and didnt do anything to stop it
Distress for other people that have been affected by floods
A terrible situation for people when flooded.
Although I did not experience flooding, ditches need to be cleaned on a regular basis to prevent flooding. Building on water tables. Cheaper land to build upon
No personal experience of flooding, but able to sympathise and feel saddened for others who have experienced flooding
Sad for peoples losses and their inconvenience , trauma and the after effects
as see it on tv and so have sympathy for pefople that you see on the news
thankful to tghe people helping each other when they were in a distressful situation
just that i dont live where the floods were and we live higher up and not in a valley
the council are not cleaning out the drains,that cousede the flood
i felt sorry for the people who were affected/
you see friends lives turned upside down/ and thier anguish
all those peoples homes ruined / just normal people its not their fault
for those affected there but for the grace of god
Because I could not do anything for friends and they had very bad flooding problems
People had disruption and devestationto their property
Felt so sorry for the people affected by the floods
Wa that this happened and sorry7 for their losss not their fault
It was mostly local farmers that got affected and most of their livestock died and this was a terrible time for them
not able to go and work and feeling lazy and weather changing
for the people who lost their personal belongings
pride in the way aberystwyth pulled together
felt sad for others who had been flooded
the government didnt do more, we have an army here why werent they sent in to help in places like somerset when they are only sat in barracks/it wouldnt cost the government anymore to send in the army as they get paid anyway/alot of the places neednt of flooded if the government had done more//
its sad that they have to leave their house/and for the cchildren and carpets get ruined
some people have been flooded 4 times before this flood i feel sorry for them//
seeing what a lot of people went through,losing homes and even life//
i met a few people who were flooded i was sypmathetic for them/ i knew one or two who died because of the experience//
just felt so sorry for them some had to live in caravans
felt so sorry for all them people whose homes were flooded
sad for the people who experienced bad floods
felt very sorry bfor all the people whose homes were flooded
I FELT SYMPATHY FOR THE PEOPLE WHOSE HOMES WERE FLOODED
because the g/ment should have helped more/ and i felt sorry for them
brcause you wonder how it would be if it were you and its not just the floods but the clearing up months after the event
felt sorry for people affected in the rest of the country and angry that flood defences had not been maintained
did make me worried after seeing floods on the news
sympathy for other people for what they were going through when it could have been avoided
very sad for people for their homes, livestock, etc a very traumatic event
i felt sorry for what people had gone through, hard for people down on the railway, i think its sad
Because lots of people in area were affected by floods
Local community and armed services goit stuck in
becuae i used to know someone who is flooded and how long it took to get thte family home back together . couldnt get any innsurance, couldnt seel. made them deeply unhappy
beucase seeing people go through damage to property. seeing peoplele being efected as locla auuthorites havent invested enouhg money.
for me it seemd like they were completly helpless. it could have been well predicted, but action was taken. lakc of planning on top of lack of awwarness. they should spread awwarness ore through social media
for the people who were effected homes wete effecyted having to move out.
felt helpless when I saw and heard what had happened
I felt sorry for people loosing their livelihood and all the work involved
I was sorry for the farmers and their livestock and people`s homes being flooded
I felt so sorry for the people concerned and was so glad not to be one of them
that it happened so quick and no warning
it is terrible for the people involved//
for people who lost possessions and had to move out
becuase people have lost property abn their homes//
i FELT SORRY FOR THE PEOPLE WHOSE HOMES HAVE BBEN FLOODED
I felt sorry for the people who had their homes flooded
you don't expect to see people flooded out of their homes in this country
I have family and friends who were effected bby the floods on the South Coast
naturally I FEEL SORRY FOR PEOPLE WHO had their homes and businesses destroyed or badly damaged by flooding
just seeing people in the vale of york for example with houses full of sewage water, feel a bit sorry for them
sorry for people who live down the road /
becuase peoples homes hasd been destroyed
having flooded can ruin furniture carpets , the house, very destructive.
must be awfull to loose your house to floosing
people lost everything when you see that when it gets close you relise the value of whats lost.
I worked on buildings around Windsor and the whole house has to be gutted.
It is asmame we haveto for the government to act
My relatives worked hard all year round.
i was thinking about people who lost their homes, so it made me sad that they kind of lost everything they had worked for
peopl are willing to help other people in distress at times
because you empathise with other people the insurance companies allowing builders to build on these lands that they know have problems and then insurance companies dont pay out
the concern of seeing your house severly damaged and being homeless is a traumatic experience for those affected
sympathy towards people having to deal with it as affects their whole livlihood
the suddeness of the loss and the huge proportion of loss,personal helplessness//
i think the people of our island feel sympathy and distress to people who have suffered because of the floods
it should never have happened/i think the enviroment agency were negligent
the fact that places were so vulnerable so quickly//
because I did not have to go through having my house flooded
people who were more severely affected then myself
because the causes were something we had never met before
Fault of local government not carrying out adequate flood precauctions
sympathy for the people affected by flooding
It is down to the people who knew what to do and drain the levels - not using the local knowledge of people that knew what would happen if maintenance was not carried out
I watched this all on TV and felt sympathy for the poor people and farmers with their animals that were flooded and how it will affect their lives
did not expect them to be as bad as they were
Not in control felt Icould not help these poor people could not stop the weather which made it worse
because it was not much damaged but the garden but distress for the old people in my street
because the majority of stuff on the news about the flooding the majority of people shouldnt have bought a house on a flood plane and should have know or considered it would happen
Felt sorry for the famlies that were affected
because a lot of people were affected by flooding no food or heating
people needed help and felt sorry for families that lost their homes schools businesses
just because people had lost so much little mementoes of their families and lives rather than goods that could be replaced
i think the government should have done a lot more and i think homeowners should have done more if they were aware of potential flooding it is a shame the amount they lost and premiums will go sky high because of that
because of what happened to the people old people not able to get out their houses because of their disability etc
i felt it tesrible peopel are suffering this wayu
i dont like other people being asdversly affected by things out of their control
I WA SURPRISED TO SEE AMOUNT OF WATER ON MAIN ROAD AND COULD ONLY JUST DRIVE THROUGH IT
just seeing what people had gone through and lost on the news//
because peoples homes and livelyhoods were destroyed
i was grateful to live on a hill and away from main flood areas
well keep seeing people on tv with water lgged houses made me feel very sympathetic//
seeing the damage that it did to peoples property i was sympathetic to them and that it wasn't me.
because it was christmas and the first people suffered at christmas eve and i felt sad for the people that lost there home during this time also the feeling of helplessness and not being able to help these people directly.
not a nice thing for anyone to go through
prefer empathy anyone caught in a disaster everyone neds support/feel for the people that are suffering//
well, people are conned into buying houses on floodplanes and despite the act they are flood planes they have not picked it up and no one else has mentioned it
it's when you seee people whose houses are completely flooded and in a flash, bang, they're gone
I felt sad that the homes they had lived in were wrecked
because the people in charge are drawing their salaries and haven't done their jobb, including mp's
cannot imagine how itis to have your house filled to fill with dirty water etc/takes months to recover/not able to go to the shops etc
distressed by kneejerk reaction and simplified/polarised discussion/media created but fostered elsewhere
those poor people/thankgoodness it was not me/how don you live under those circumstancers
sympathy with the people who have been flooded as not their fault
felt bad for people who lost their homes
some thing terrible that happened to other people
it was scary as there no electricity and you couldnt get through some of the streets
there should have been more done before the flood happened
i could see lots of water around which had not happened before
it goes back to the authorities they have the money but they dont want to part with it
Because you are helpless against the elements
When youv'e been through it p its just destruction cos people lose such a lot cos they've been unable to move stuff p where was it Todmorden they got flooded 3 times was it? p i a matter of weeks then happened again it was dreadful! pn
Cos everybody was bending over backwards to help each other out
Just grateful to where I live that I didn't have to get furniture out of my house p I've seen how disruptive it can be pn
Just felt sorry for em been flooded Government did nothing for em
Cannot express himself as struggling to understand basic English!
because I've seen the effects of floods, even in this area, so I can understand how floods affect people
i was third party, but I saw on tv, people with young children not able to get into their homes
you have to. poor people have left everything, not just material things ut everything.
there was a huge amount of media coverage of the people that were involved, so you saw a lot of the victims and the damage it caused to their lives.
it must be devastating to expierience flooding and who knows if it will occur again//
didnt expierience it myself but felt sympathy for those that did/
having expierienced flooding in the past i can sympathise
staff at work who were floode so felt sympathy
havind seen people suffering and putting myself in their possition having expierienced it myself//
I'm scared of water p anyone caught up in a flood like being @sea so I do sympathise with them pn
Suppose cos relative kept phoning me bout his rotting carpets drive had come up!
Just felt sorry for em being flooded out
Felt sorry for them thats in floods they could have done more to help them!
Cos u watch on telly - these people lost all they have p there were old people farmers who lost their crops pn
it was only second time in my life ive seen floods
i suffer with depression and anxiety attacks so i was frightened i would get flooded/more for my son as well as he is only 13/when something like this happens my priority is my son
because everybody stood around waiting for someone else to do something / and when i did everyone came out to help
because there was more help for people in the southern part of the country
felt sorry for people who were flooded on the foreshore
because this area and its people had experienced flooding before
because we had experienced it previous and we were keen to help others who had been affected by the flooding
length of time it continued/poor response
felt sorry for all who could not get to work
amount of time the govt took to react/attitude of it will be ok/poor political attitude-head of environment agency
felt a lot of sympathy for people involved
that the same areas flood all the time and anger that they still build houses on flood plains even though that is known and that councils had not been spending time clearing out streams and riverbeds and addressing flooding issues
you felt sorry for them because with having a house i dread to think if that were ever me in that situation house and family just memorable things that get ruined/p//
i felt sympathy for other people in my area
for the peoole who were affected, having their homes damaged/your home is your haven and if you cant use it you have nowhere to go/its your base where you are/it is what you are
for the people who were not as lucky as me
my family were involved and i know the problems they were having in getting into their home/other friends of mine were affected too/they had to wade through 2 ft of water to get to and from their houses
because the community really pu;lled together and the help from armed services and neighbours was great
i feel sorry for antbody affected by things like that, what they have got to go through
angry at things like railway fallim ng into the sea actually happened, i use the train regularly, alot of money is spent on other stations and railways and people here have been shouting about the state of our station and railway
felt sorry for other people especially with the insurance
you feel more helpless when its a natural disaster
look at all thses people who lost everything as a result og thse floods
sympathyfor our family and the stress and problems it caused
i felt a great deal of sympathy for people being without home especially thiose without much money
for people in a 2 and 3 radius who were far worse off than us
feeling sorry for people who had their homes flooded
for people who have spent money on their homes and then had them flooded
being an established country did not think this could happen
i felt sorry for people in neighbouring roads who had it really bad had to get out of their homes
just for those people that are affected, perhaps in a more dramatic way than we are/-
i work for a school and know some families who have been flooded, unfortunately is always the same families time and time again / ... /-
of the people that were suffering homes affected the animals
because of the people that were affected
i would not wish my worst enemy what they had to put up with i dont think you actually see anything i have nt seen already including drought
i didnt want to get too much involved in things we cant control
for what would happen to peoples homes and the anxious of peoples hhomes
sympathy for people in flooded areas as they hadn't been protected sufficiently
i can imagine what it must have been like for the poor people who suffered
some of the poor people who suffered the floods were devasted by the damage caused.
the people affected had to deal with losing their belongings etc.
it must have been terrible for the people affected
felt sorry for the peoples whose businesses and houses were affected//
i felt sorry for the people caught up in it/ it was government neglect and response//
felt sorry for the people who lost their possessions//
felt sorry for victims as it was at christmas.
not exactly was surprised but a bit to see why the jubilee river water is coming this way
wraysbury as a whole had a great spirit to help each other every body was united to help each other but no help offered from the governmont untill later
because my wife was very ill at that time and i had so much problems and i lost her in july and i had to go to and fro frm hospital and home
Because it could by you, you feel empathy
We were not able to cope on the roads this affected my business
because i can imagine what its like to loose your home or possions. espacially when insurance don't wnat pay out
i see it on the news alot and obviously not too worried about
felt enormous sympathy for peple trapped in houses invulnerable situations anf being let down by their insurance companies
sympathy for people building businesses and properties and the mess after
powerless to protect properties and other properties left vulnerable
because of other people that have had a hard time//
i felt badlyt fir the people who were affected by it//
a lot of people had a lot of problems last winter//
friends and family that were affected badly
other people have had a much more difficult time with the floods than I have//
Felt sorry for fol affected repeatedly by flooding
My cousin was flooded and we had to help. Sympathy for all the damage caused
Because, a loss of home goods after a recent marriage of friends who live in Tewksbury
Having all their homes /businesses destoyed.
Sadness that that this freak accident compacted by global warming/flooding caused the death of our 7 yr old grandson and our son in law has become a paraplegic as a result.
Peoples loss of homes and in some cases livlihood
Sympathy for otheers who were expeeriencing flooding
Not being able to help in any way made me feel helpless
felt sorry for them losing all their belongings and their homes being damaged by flood water
oTHERS LIVING CLOSE TO ME WERE SUFFERING SO i FELT SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS THEM
because i have children and have to protect them and the possessions that they treasure......plus also i cant swim and neither can two of my children
the flooding was caused by the dykes overfilling.. if the environmental services had dredged them properly this would never have happnened
we had to go get my sister and her whole area was flooded
where the flooding took place / it usually flooded in a different
in terms of ones own life experiences / we nearly got flooded 7 years ago / towards others
because i was unable to get to her quickly because of the floods / roads cordened off/ daughter suffers from emotional problems
read about people losing their properties and livlehoods during flooding
i am very angry because they opened those gates for jubilee river water which caused distruction in the are,they opened thyem slowly
we know people who lost their homes and faced serious serious distruction
if u put urself in their shoes then wud u realise their problems and losses
Because the things that should have been done beforehand were not dealt with soon enough
Because the flooding was beyond anyone`s control and collective help was needed at such a time
I do not like to see people suffer when they have no control over events
i felt sorry for families who lost their homes//
to my neighbour and the sand bag support
wind in right direction, sailing club full of water, watery lane//
gratitude towards those who helped others and gratiude that we were not affected//
didnt feel distress as it didnt effect us//
gratitude for helpers neighbours and services//
If you are caught in a downpoor it is uncomfortable ie soaking wet and cold therefore people homes that flooded I have sympathy
Watching the effects of the severe weather. We weere fortunate to b e living on the hill
i FELT SYMPATHETICE FOR THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO WEREE AFFECTED
Worrying that the water level would reach my home
i FELT SORRY FOR OTHER PEOPLE IN TROUBLE WITH THE FLOODS
because other people's properties were badly damaged.
for the other people that were badly flooded
empathy with people who are suffering it, I'm human not a monster//
I FELT SORRY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN FLOODED
I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING OR HEARING ANYTHING ABOUT IT
I sympathise with people who have had their homes and businesses ruined by the flooding
EVERYONE MUST FEEL SORRY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THEIR HOMES DAMAGED BY FLOOD WATER
Seeing places in the town affected by flooding was a bit dismal//
This was something that was beyond anyone's control, the sea felt so powerful and you could see that it was being quite destructive and at that moment in time there was nothing you could do and you just had to sit and ride it out/because we were quite high up but the street is lower you felt like you were a bit stranded when the street was flooded//
justy bsuprised of how much rain there was
something that happened that they did no deserve
just seen what people had lost you wouldnt want it happening to yuou /count your lucky star
Sympathetic for the people who were affected
suprised because we had been flooded in 2007 / the environmental change / unexpected rainfall
i remember being stranded on the a63 road...couldnt move or do anything
they know around here that flooding occurs it shouldnt have happened again / local governemnt and national gov
i can imaginw what ists like to have all your possesions soaked in water, and nowhere to live
its hard luck for people and i feel abit of sympathy for them
well sort of because at my age you dont really do you
well not for myself because i wasnt badly affected, but for the poeple whos homes were badly damaged, and for the travel disruption
well felt for those who were affected both the loss of personal belogings and home, tht they didnt have support immediatley, and there was very little support from officials, government at beginning, and then they only came down here as a photo opportunity
because it was so sudden it came so quickly in the somerset levels anyway it came on the back of the hurricane, it was a full moon high tide altogether it was like bang.
because there is a conservation group where there was flooding and they refused to clear out the stream because they wanted to be sympathetic to the wildlife and it blocks up a dike and it all came flooding down the high street/p//
pride in the area with the way they all rallied around, and in how they did in the somerset levels which I know is up the road but you see it through facebook etc, I saw it just locally as well how people were really helpful to one another and those affected straight away, within hours, minutes of the railway track coming down. It was all over the internet, local websites. That's what happens in this little town//
basically because I was part of this community that people were coming to see because of the storms but actually everyone was just getting on with their lives in spite of the media circus and all the attention//
for what people who did get flooded and damaged by the storm had lost//
For people who were made homeless and couldn't do things like get to work, and had their houses flooded//
I felt for the people who couldn't get about, who were stuck in their homes with no transport and people like carers visiting people disrupted by the train tracks//
it was upsetting to see people affected by the floods
i knew people who had their properties flooded
I felt sorry for people who suffered damage to their homes
felt very sorry for people who had their homes flooded and still have not got back into them
felt sorry for the people involved. I would not like it happen to me.
I just thought it was never possible to happen - with the sea and the amount of water that came - it can make you feel fearful -
I feel sorry for the people who had experienced the floods who had lost everything. I had not experienced this.
It effected a lot of people quite severely - how bad it was
I was afraid that the water was going into the properties where there were children.
a lot of people who were afected were people without much authority or resources to do anything about it eg replace property and redecorate//
because there but for the grace of god go i/it could have been me//
despite evidence they continue to build on flood plains, neglect water courses//
empathetric with people who had floods/ have friends in tewkesbury//
towards friends who lost a lot, and had only just moved in only just moved back in//
It was difficult to see my home in such a bad state which was very upsetting. But the worse thing was seeing my retired parents and how much it affected their every day life.//
thankful that we were alright as we are so close to the damage
problem of flodding not caused by global warming
seeing people in distress affecting home family and getting about
I was so sorry for those affected and felt sympathy
I know how long it took for those people affected to dry their homes out
I felt sympathy for those effected because thery lost everything
it's destroying properties and belongings.
i just felt that if i didnt have my children i could have helped a little bit more in ways that we all went down to the river to help those families who had been totally flooded out. we did give clothese to a charity that we collecting for people who had been flooded out through help for heroes, and toys as well//
it didnt affect me perswonally very much or anyone that i kbnow as far as i am aware most people just held up on their journeys to work and thats all that happened to them around here/
the council helped a lot considering the transport problems across the river when it was flooding and i was grateful for that because it meant i could get towkr //
i felt sorry for people who had lost their houses and belongings//
sympathy because people's lives were wrecked, one moment their life is hunky dory the next minute their lives are uopside down. because the floods came so quicikly there wasnt much people could do to cope //
sympathy with those effected and once it started not much could be done to stop it.
Felt very strongly about peoples homes being ruined and felt sympathy for this. That they also didn't get much help from the government
anger at the government and the authorities for not acting.
you were not able to help those in thier situation
as the people in charge do nothing to alleviate this problem. they have the intelligence , knowhow ,but FAIL miserably to serve the PUBLIC.
there ought to have more been done to help those affected , before it happened.
THEY WERE TRAPPED IN THEIR HOUSE / NEEDED A BOAT .
brought back memories of when i lived on a farm with my family
you hear of things abroad but when things happen here there is hardly any help. people get more help abroad.
The Government should be doing more. They do it afterwards. They wait until it is flooded and then wait until some peoples lives are effected. You can imagine yourself living in the effected property.
when i was driving to work i panick with the thought the car would struggle and not get through the roads - it effects your pay - it has counter effect
my heart went out to them and I sympathised that they had lost their homes and everything. i thought it just not seemed possible. i wished i could have done something. it could happen again.
I think there is not enough in place for the situation. They know it has happened and they are still building properties in the areas. Some people lost everything.
there was no need for it to happen/lots of warnings were given by people locally about the damage potential /
it seemed that storms were just coming and coming /
this was happening and there was nothing I could do /
i hadnt seen the prom so damaged in all my 47 years/made it seem very vulnerable/surprise at how suddenly it could happen//
because i didnt expectanything like that in aberystwyth even though its by the sea//
because i had to get a coach because the rail line was flooded and it was inconvenient and i was late home//
because i wasnt directly affected but seeing stories of people who lost all their possessions and sentimental things like photos and their lives were shattered by it//
we used to like to go to borth and while it was going on we saw so much damage to houses and places there and upset causedf to people we knew//
because i am appalled at how the top 1% in the world can manipulate the populations of governmemnts worldwide to withhold education from the people of the world so that free trade and capitalism and profit rules above learning honesty and truth//
felt sorry for people whose homes were flooded especially more than once
felt sorry for the people and evry little trhing going through the trauma and livelyhoods
image what the people were going through n
think its terrible/people being thrown out of their homes//
if it happened to you/how you would feel in that situation//
felt sorry for them cos it was no fault of their own//
feel sorry for people that it happens to time and time again//
inevitability/serves you right, you were warned and nothing will change//
because of all the stuff on the seafront as people got flooded/people affected by flooding
felt so sorry for the students on the front that had to evacuate
feel for people who lost possessions and for your fellow man/people with no insurance/ knowing people who have been flooded with the debris
how little some people were being helped
the people that were flooded it seemed to happen regularly and it was apparent the govt were taking steps to solve the situation
sympathy towards people affected because previously we had been affected by floods
Because of all ther money that's been spent on flood defences etc.
Nastural AND EXPECVTED REACTION TO SOME BODY ESLES SUFFERING
didnt think about storms before i moved here
surprised that it could be so severe and do so much damage
sorry for the people i know who were affected
because i was in the same situation so felt synpathy with all the others
people in the know , not putting into place measures to rectify the problem before it happens. if other countries can cope with worser disaserts ,surely Britain is made of sterner stuff.
distressing to see people suffer in the floods . also distressing to see people suffer and nobody doing any thing about it ,
how it affected other people / move away from their region
well informed and felt very sorry for the farming community
they lost all their belongings at the worst of times .
well i feel sorry for people who had their homes bust up
i felt sorry for the people that had been affected by the floods, i didnt think enough was done to help in the beginning, but as usual people around the rest of the country came together and started helping out
i just felt so sorry for the people who were affected, it was horrible, absolutey horrible
sorry for the people that were affected/ should be in reservoirs
for the people affected by the floods, they were helpless /-
yousaw other people being affected in different communities and lifes
shame people put effort into yourhomes and got flooded having no control
alot of people suffered and felt sorry cause houses were built on flood planes
seeing tv images of those people flooded due to building on flood plainsoo
sorry for the people who lost their homes
glad they got trains running again quickly
im just a very anxious person so a lot of my mates talked about it and somebody got swept out to sea and died//
many people just lost so much so quickly//
because aberystwyth is very quiet and nothing usualy ever happens/the tv teams were around and there was lots on the internet about aberystwyth/it looked as though it was really serious//
i wasnt expecting the floods to be so severe//
how ncan we not be ready for this problem we are never reaqdy for rain and floods
i felt sorry for some of the people who got flooded
i would hate to have my property flooded
Felt sorry for the people who had to leave their homes /
see property flooded animals evacuated from fields
The damage caused by the floods in the local community was of concern to me
I felt sorry for the people who were flooded and lost everything
I felt sorryfor other people who were affected by the floods and lost a lot of memorabilia
Bercause I felt so sorry for people affected and it went on for so long and was desperate for many
becaus of not getting the help that was really needed. I went to egypt early in the year and we had a bad storm for 2 days and flooded hotel. That day the lorries were pumping water out and within 2 days they were back to normal and in uk takes for ever/-
felt sorry for others that lost their homes after xmas/
you just feel sorry for people because of losing their homes and livlihood
i think of nothing else than having your home wrecked
felt sympathy for them but had little note of the floods as child was born around that time
it must be an awful thing to be flooded for so long
when we were flooded in 2007 we had no water or sewerage works so had to cope best we could/it affected us badly although we had our home/feel sympathy for those who lost everything
It was just seeing freinds and family how much it affects them and to see tehm in that situation and how much money they have had to spend on repairs and all that.
it didn't affect me and most people had insuarnce./ it's hard to feel sad for people you don't directly know I guess.
basically my house was falling down around me. tiles coming off hte roof, toilet overflowing,guttergin coming off the house. exams and people from home ringing 24 hours a day.
I know people who live down in the town on the seafornt and that was pretty bad. basically people who were affected by it.
because I was burgled and our hose was damaged so I can empahtise aobut how peole felt aob ut their homes.
becasue I wasn't affected at all wheras other people didn't have the resources or worng area to avoid the floods.
Its a bit, I dont really pay much attention unless absolutely necessary. of course it was a shame for the sea front people to expereince.
becasuei felt bad for other people who had to move during the floods and had thier property damaged.
becasue when the floods came my friend who lived on the seafront came up to mne nd stayed a couple of nights.
my auntyshouse was flooded comletly and they have only just moved back in. They had just redecorated andit washard tosee this and then move in with my Nan in a really small house.
It is devastsating to think of those people who were afffected
I felt sympathetic towards people whose belongings had all been damaged
i WAS SYMPATHETIC TOWARTDS OTHERS WHO HAD FLOODING
Sympathetic towards others affected by the floods |
sYMPATHY FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEI VALUABLES
it was a deliberate shifting of a problem - peolple said flooding would haoppen before the jubilee river was built
felt sorry for those people affected experience death and physical harm/ emotional well being loss of possessions and loved ones//
its not other peoples fault they live there. a lot of people live on the flood plain.
you just feel so hurt and sad for people
its chickens coming home to roost. pigheadedness in building in the area
sorry for people affected by it disrupting their way of life.
felt sorry for people who were struggling.
seeing pictures on television and people losing their livelihoods.~
because it was outside of my circle of influence and location.
because the government does too little and the rural and coastal areas get forgotten
i could not6y help noone. i couldnt help them when they needed it. that really annoyed me.
would be a nightmare to suffer flood damage/damage to posessessions
for people and animals who suffered most
Distressed : Because we were not in control
I sympathised with everyone who had their belongings ruined
I was extremely anxious that the flood water was going to come into the porch and loung
due to damage to car caused by the winds
because i bought a house up a hill so wouldnt be flooded
because it disrupted a lot of peoples lives, sympathy for all the students and people evacuated
feel bad for the people who have had thaqat tyoe oif thing happen
other than how everyone else suffered i know from other experiences how it feels
somewhere like the somerset levels were surprising at the amount of flooding, need for rivers to be dredged not done for years
i felt sorry f or the people whose homes were flooding, i know how i would feel if i was flooding. they had to move out while it dried out and all their things were ruined//
cos i have been there and know how upsetting it is to watch the floods running down like a river and you hve no control over the situation and lots of people had their homes ruined but there is nothing you cna do to stop it//
there was nothing you could do. a normal travelling time 20-25mins turned into an hour and it was difficult getting back to get the children from school on time/it meant my partner had to rearrange her day//
just putting yourself in other peoples positions that they could have lost everything for a second time. if they managed to salvage anything from the first time and then the second time came on quickily. it is all the personal things that you lose and afte the floods peoples lives were on hold //
sympathise with the people down the road/
think just knowing there was more than1 family affected and the insurence was very poor/and the value of the property would go down/and knowing that its not just a one off/
because its all transport related .i was trying to catch the bus to go to seminars and had to wait a little longer/as traffic was slowing down due to the heavy rain//
because we didnt have to experience it basically
the news reports showing people devastation//
seeing everybody's livelihoods washed away and the lack of the government hellp and it was more the public that pulled together, the communities, the neighbours
because they seem to be linked, it's a repeated occurence for them
just from what they were showing on the news - you just feel sorry for the people that were affected by it
because i felt sorry for the people it was happening to - houses were getting wrecked and people were in danger of losing their lives
i suppose because if its an act of nature like a flood you've got no control over it
well I felt smypathy towards the victims of the floods we saw the effects on the news and it wasn't very good
some people like to criticise who people have lived flood prone areas all their life. I am the opposite and am very sympathetic.
because i cant help other people although i would like to
it was how the country was not prepared for it
people lost their property and lost a lot of money
sympathising with people who have lost their homes
nothing you can do as an individual, you see all the floods around but what can you do if the council have not cleared gullys and water is gushing up
i felt the government coulde have done more to help
sympathy for those affected in losing irreplaceable possessions
when the floods did happen it asued a lot of people to be stranded, coulodnt go to work or get out bercause of the flooding
because where we live it is higher, and where people lived it is lower, and we couldnt help them.
luck with my family,they were here at thetime/ council were quite good//
sympathy for the old people down the road that were flooded//
Symp;athy for others who had been affected
felt sorry for other people whose property was ruined and old people who worried about rebuilding
I felt symapatheic towrds those people who had to evacuate and lost their possessions
felt sorry for the people/animals who were affected
I feel soory for the peoplewhose lives were upset by this
felt so sorry for them peoplw who lost their houses due to flood/
feel bad about them people whose homes were flooded
i felt very sad about the peoples homes who were flooded
felt helpless watchin the news all the people whose homes had been badly flooded
with people who have been flooded more than once
because we were initially told what would happen and it did
i saw the houses that were flooded and witnessed people removing items from their property
people laugh when you mention climate change yet there has been evidence that is hasd been caused by man
we were away for a b it of it and we didnt know what was going on with our house and friends and family
coz one of my classmates at college lives in an area that was badly affected by theb rainfall so my sympathy was for him
the sympathy i felt for those affected by floods
we all had sympathy for people ho genuinely suffered with the floods//
it should never have happened, if dredging had been done it would never have happened//
sympathy for people as i have been through it myself,water was in house for 4 hours//
somerset levels loss of business farms , we were out of our house 18 months, we keep ditches clear//
felt sorry for those which it happened to and were affected.
We weren't flooded this time but were in 2007 so know how the people felt. Probsbly empathy may be a more appropriate word.
cant do anything about what happened, i couldnt prevent it..
sympathy for peolple whos homes were destroyed
sympathised with the people that it happened to
felt for other people that it was happening to
to be woken up in the middle of the night in your nighty, be walked up the road in the pouring rain in the thunder and lightning seeing your house almose tilting into the sea must be hard for anyone/anyone whose house has been flooded can have as much sympathy as you can possibly spare, it's a disgusting business//
when you see people driven out of their homes by floods so there must be a bit of sympathy for these people, but I'm afraid that we're all selfish and I'm just glad it didn't happen to us//
I was concerned about the welfare of my family and friends as I working away for some of the time//
felt sorry for trhe lives and damage done
the people were in distess and experienced floods
id feel sorry for the people who were flooded out
I DONT KNOW MAYBE ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR INTERFERED WITH RELIEF WORK WHERE MY GRANDAD LIVES I.E URINATING IN WATER BOWSERS
i have relations who are in the middle of a flood affected area so i could feel for those affected
having worked in public srvices i am aware that budgets are being cut and individuals can do nothing about it.
WE WENT TO SEE WHERE THE RIVER HAD FLOODED AND THEN AGAIN A FEW DAYS LATER AND A WHOLE FARM HAD BEEEN WASHED AWAY ,I AM CERTAIN THAT THINGS WILL GET WORSE AND IT WAS SCARY TON SEE SO MUCH WATER EVERYWHERE
seeing peoples life in ruins sometimes again after previous similar experiances is sad to see.
BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT PEOPLE HELPED OUT IN THOS ESITUATIONS AND ORGANIZED SOME RELIEF FOR THOSE AFFECT
the peolpe in somerset were not to blame but the govt. had let them down and not done enough
Because two local houses got completely flooded. Felt sorry for them
SEEING OTHER PEOPLE SUFFER ISNT NICE AND IT COULD JUST AS EASILY HAVE BEEN US.
i saw people who were badly hit on that had sufferd on previous occasions too
for the flood to much pain for the people
becuase seen them with everything distroyed
how extreme it was and how widespread, the severity of it , seeing people in boats and cars floating
when I looked at, heard and read about it I was picturing my family and myself in that position
i am very empathetic, very concerned and like to help
Only because we had experienced flooding in 2007 and knew how disruptive it can be to your lifestyle. For example, no electricity for 3 weeks.
I was crying all the time because my son's house got flooded. Terrible time. Very worrying. Insurance company didn't pay up quickly so it took him a long time to sort himself out.
Because they didn't get the help straight away, nobody listened to them, they only brought the soldiers in for one day and they are still not getting compensation, still waiting, got bills to pay. They were promised all this money but they are still having to go through hoops to get it.
Because people were totally devastated. Their lives were turned upside down. No help forthcoming for ages. farmers and people in rural areas particularly affected.
Sorry for people whose homes were flooded due to the failings of the way the rivers have been maintained.
because of the slow response of the authorities, an apparent lack of urgency from central government.
i felt sorry for those who were directly affected//
seeing the farmers being affected and having loss of income
I put myself in the position of those affected, and had to sympathise with the unluky ones.
Because I pity the endeavours peopl;e have gone through to protect their home spending money but to no avail
sympathy felt for all the people that were affected
just felt sorry for the people it was affecgting/
just watching the scene unfold with people and how it affected their lives/
sympathy for those who wre affected by the flooding/
anger that raised road by only 4 inches which was a waste of tme/also need to dredge river and canal/
this happened a few yrs ago and they did nothing/should do something before it happens
sympathy for others affected by flooding
sympathy for people affected who lose everything/ then they cant get insurance/canno sell homes/
grateful to neighbours for their help for getting food for us when i did not have a car
with people who had their houses flooded
something could have been done to stop the floods
my girlfriend was at work and they had a power cut
people were getting their houses flooded
just about flooding happening and we wasntb prepared
the people affected and where flooded i felt sorry for them
i was surprised it happened and wasnt expecting to happen ghas bad has it did
i dont think they had prepared themselves. the rivers rise at the same time every year
brother in law works for coastguard/helped victims on christmas eve
the way it happened, it had an affect on my daughter and 2 kids, for me personally it wasnt an issue.. The way it happened, it could have been prevented, it was down to BR blaming the council and council blaming BR. The culvert here, no one took responsibility.
for the people who had lost their homes and stuff...
just grateful that it didnt affect my mum who was living here at the time, she was very ill and is dead now, so yeah, it could have made things very difficult...
gratitude for what the emergency services did and for people helping each other..
I DONT KNOW, IM INDIFFERENT TO THE QUESTION.... I DONT KNOW HOW TO ANSWER THAT...
I saw the effects in 2007 when we had much more serious flooding in the area. For example, our water was cut off for 3 weeks and there were threats of evacuation. so I know how people must feel.
because my pub was closed for 6 months and some of my neighbours were flooded and now cannot get insurance
Felt sorry as same people get flooded all t time feel sorry for em is it ever gonna end?
Because people have their houses flooded & damaged property so one feels tremendous sympathy for them p you must feel this or one is inhuman pn
Cos some people will have lost their house/belongings
thinking of people's livelihoods and houses being destroyed
sympathetic towards those flooded and because the effects will last so long
Peoples homes aqnd livelihoods being ruined.
I feel sorry for those who lost possessions.
felt for them your heart goes out to them try to put yourself in their position
thought of if i had to go through it would not like to be in their position
if was my home /family all belongings lost/ its their home v sad that it happened nothing they could have done
Because of the flooding that happened in 2007 which affected friends and family and it's not nice to see people displaced from their homes.
Because of the people in Somerset mainly who were flooded for months and couldn't get home...certainly the farmers on the Somerset levels.
Obviously because I was feeling sorry for the people having to go through this, people on the TV who had lost everything. I can imagine how I would feel if I had had to go through this situation. Not enough is being doner to help these people.
feel sorry for people whose houses and businesses have been damaged in the floods
its's due to our own fault and lack of preperation
i try to be a resposible person and I understand people have problems
river 2 inches from breaking flood defences. Envirt agency used pumps to keep water out. Flood dfences also sandbagged.
watching the news thinking about rising river levels and thinking about peoples problems which they encountered as a result of this.the fact it may repeat.
a lot of these people have built their lives on building there things and then watched it destroyed in eight days
watching media coverage it was sad to see people being affected by the flooding.
You have something in common with the people affected. It must have been horrendous
pEOPLE ON THE FRON WERE AFFECTED QANDE STUDENTS WERE MOVED
quite a few of my friend were flooded and could not get access to their friends
sympathectic of people who were flooded and whos lives were disrupted by travel.//
other than the idiot prime minister coming to see us to get his name in the news to get his name in the news I had pride in all the small businesses and sub contractors that have spent weeks and months putting dawlish back togetehr under the corporate banner of network rail/network rail had very small staff involved in this restructure//
i had a lot of friends who were evacuated from their homes/it disrupted lectures etc//
some of the waves splashing over the prom were quite high/caused a lot of carnage/surprising to see how the waves ripped up the prom//
my friend was evacuated from her house and i know a few people who had rooms in their basements like kitchens and they had a lot of damage and loss of appliances//
the froce of nature and theres nothing you can do about it/cant stop the waves coming over the prom//
we were holidaying away from aberystwyth at the time and didnt know if we would be coming back to a flooded house//
you sympathise with people who have lost their houses//
you feel sorry for people when they have lost everything
sorry for all the people in Dawlish who had to move out
YOU CAN'T HELP FEELING SORRY FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED LOSING BELONGINGS AND NOT GETTING HELP QUICKLY
With the way the industry that I work for (rail) achieved so much in a short amount of time rebuilding the railway. They worked 24 hours a day so I had a lot of pride with those guys//
Because you just get on with it/I've got a three year old so have other things to worry about//
because I knew people were more badly affected than we were//
When we first came here the sea defences up to Dawlish Warren had been upgraded within the past 10 years or so and they did seem to cope with the winter storms, and then suddenly they stopped coping with the winter storms, so it was the realisation that they couldn't cope//
anyone would feel sorry for people who have been flooded. our village is on high ground, but people nearer the river are flooded.
you see people who have been flooded out and they have lost so much
feel sorry for people losing their homes/proprty and not being abble to do anything abbout it
it was because ofclimate change but people still dont believe it
JUST THE THOUGHT THAT PEOPLES LIVLIHOODS AND HOMES WERE AFFECTED/NOTHING THEY COULD DO ABOUT IT
could see all the houses and farms flooded/ v hard for those people to live like that/ lost a lot/
I was distressed when the level of water was high as I live on the ground floor
i WAS VERY GRATEFUL THAT NO BELONGINGS OF OURS WERE DAMAGED IN THE FLOODS
it was not raining it was an exceptionally high tides//
the toilet overflows when it rains heavy/the sewers cant take it//
seeing whats happening to buildings and people//
i feel sorry for the people involved in it//
I have no sympathy for people who live in a flopod area
in the floods in 2007 so many of my friends and neighbours suffered and had to leave their homes. I have sympathy for anyone in the recent floods who have suffered in this way.
I felt sympathy and sadness for those whose properties were flooded, especially if they had been flooded before.
i was aware that there were a lotg more people worse off than i was//
well peoples property, i know the somerset levels very well,i used to live there, it is a natural phenomenon, this last one was worse than ever before because of the government, because of lack of drainage
gratitude that my home wasnt damaged, that my family was safe, that there wasnt too much loss of life and i suppose i was grateful that eventually the government pulled out their finger and did something about it
as we have never had nothing like that before it was, why did it have to happen, could something more have been done about it, and i made our, what we build it made it look shabby
alot of people lost alot of their belongings and important things to them and some people may never move back home or replace their things//
felt symnpathy for the people who were flooded out/mainly the upheaval really with all the people that were involved//
our window cleaner friend lost his house and other people we know lost posessions//
because my sister was directly involved in it, she had to leave her house so it affected me a lot//
just that the work on gthe railway was put into effect pretty efficiently and a lot of people were really hard working and one felt they were pulling together//
just how people were getting on with stuff, not caving in. Especially the farmers on the Somerset levels, I was very proud with how the farming community rallyed around with shipping animals out and getting feed in//
you feel for those in the situation they were in//
obviously it's disruption to people's lives, and they lose possessions, personal posessions, the upheaval and the cost//
hearing and watching (on TV)the news then about it made me sympathise with the victims
some people were getting flooded and couldnt get help if they were old
the didnt learn from the previous times the flooding happened , the government dont do anything
because of plight of villagers and farmers
peoples job s and lives were affected by the floods
Sympathy for people's homes flooded out time & time again!
See people on TV all stuff damaged no where to live p hate to think all my stuff was full of sewerage! pn
Know people who bought lovely property that was subjected to flooding p others can't move need help from Government pn
Felt angry listening to the people who cleaned up & then had to go thru it again p didn't know if Insurance would be paying out pn
Just thankful wasn't me sweeping out house, losing belongings, been able to get to work!
Cos I didn't find out that much about it
i was very sorry fo rthose affected and concern for farmers and animals
i was putting myself in their shoes and understood a bit about their situations
because Iexperienced the 1953 floods and felt sympathy
felt sorry for them as a lot of it could have been avoided. Lack of investment by Government
aware of people who were significantly affected on the night and following days
Ifeel a great sympathy for people who find it difficult to cope in adverse situations
felt it was terrible for the people, and the drains collapsing
sYMPATHETIC TOWARDS OTHER WHO HAD LOST THEIR BELONGINGS
sYMPATHY FOR THE OTHER STUDENTS WHO HAD TO MOVE OUT
lOTS 0OF PEOPLE LOST THEIR BELONGINGS AND WERE N OT COVERED BY INSURANCE
The river floods round here every year and the same people get flooded every year. It is terrible for them.
when we had returned from holiday [during a previous flood in 2007 when the water supply was cut off] our neighbour had bought in water for us/ the community pulls together despite the fact our village is quite small/-
not a lot you can do to clear the water away - if you are trying to get through it then you have to just turn around/-
for the people who were affected whos propertyies were flooded, had to then be stripped out - it has taken them a long time to get back to normal /-
its a re-curring problem and there seems a complete lack of effort to try and address the problem / the answer is always [given] that you are on a floodplain so you've got to expect it / ... / i would say im particulary annoyed after the experience of 2007 - there has been no noticeable action by the local parish council to do anything about the situation /-
this road is subject to flash flooding, we get a lot of drain blockage from debris/ i was up every couple of hours at the time of the floods clearing the drains to ensure our road didnt flood/ if we had flooded we would have got £5K in compensation/-
because i know a lot of families around where floods is a re-curring process - they have to move out stay with friends, they cant get attached to personal belongings because they may lose them / its a recurring process round here/ im lucky because my house hasnt flooded but i know and see so many others homes who do flood/ it is very much a time of thinking about other people, those who are not so fortunate/.../.-
nobody does anything - we are just a small village by the river [severn] and nobody takes any notice - you just have to get on with it but it floods more these days/-
a futile situation there was nothing they could do about it
felt sympathy for those in tyhe flood and their losses
that the workers that helped people affected buy the floods was amazing and how the country was set up to deal with the floods
well we saw it all graphically of people losing their homes/
taking home away from us/cost of repairs//
cause of loss of homes work belongings to other people//
i feel very sad for people involved in the floods and flooding//
never had that expierience before and it came out of nowhere /without warning
did not expect it/ my frien called to tell me/
sympathy with people that were flooded//
thinking how much it will cost to put the damage right
not a nice thing to lose things in yo0ur home and it tends to happen to the same people
to those that were affected though they were not in my location
with people who have lost everything, and i knew people who were flooded who had to leave home for 10 months with two small children
A case of you want to help but there's nothing you can do to stop it
things were not done quickly to help the people who were flooded
i would not like it to happen to me. i felt very sorry for them.
Sympathy for the people whose homes have been destroyed. Some people in this area are flooded repeatedly.
PEOPLE HAD TO MOVE OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND LOST THINGS YOU CAN'T REPLACE.
Some properties in this village are always subject to flooding - the ones on lower ground nearer the river. I feel very sorry for them.
felt sad for all the people affected in their properties
im scared to go out/ i get panic if something will happen
just that who were effected must have been davestated//
Gratitude, Diolchgar na chefais i fy effeithio yn bersonol gan y llifogydd a`r storm .
I felt sympathetic towards others who had experienced flooding
I was sympathetic to others whose properties were affected
people who had lost everything homes and with little support at the time//
cause of the people being flooded out/felt sorry for them//
didnt need to get up early and go to work//
sorry for all the people that were affected by it/ it affected people that didnt have a lot of money//
cos i felt stmpathy for the people that were flooded
only staff member at work/working with dogs i felt completely helpless when the flood began
sad for loss of flood victims home property possessions animals they lost everything//
i felt sorry for the people, their home flooded
i felt for the people in parts of the uk that were flooded. the aftermouth was very bad
i felt very sorry for the people who were flooded
sadness they were unable to have help till some days later
i was sad to see so many people needing help because of the flooding
there were so many personal stores that affected people and their lives and animals deeply and their jobs, farmers and the like almost put out of business by it
my friend had found out she was pregnant with 2 small children and then the place was flooded it was horrendous i just felt so sorry toys floating about in sewage it was awful for her
sadness that theywere going through the situation was not in the control of the individuals who were going through it
mY DECKING FLLODED AND i WAS SUPRISED I WAS SUPRISED THAT SUSSEX WAS QUITE BAD
floods are commoplace and expected; I was not indiffereent to those who suffered
I felt sympathy for those who did not understand why it was happening.
Just regret that people in my area suffered.
Because of the Jubilee River work which was a major cause of the local flooding in Datchet
i was aware of other peoples lives being affected
it afected people quite badly, i have also een in 2008 this happen to us locally
sadness for the people whose houses were ruined
sadness for friends who lost possessions
vERY GRATEFUL THAT NONE OF MY BELONGINGS WERE DAMAGED BY THE FLOODS
Surprised as to the severity of the wind and rain.
Cydymdeimlo gyda pawb oedd wedi cael eu eiddo wedi difrodi
Methu cynorthwyo bobl eraill oedd mewn trafferth
seeing the people on the TV with homes ruined and losing their pets
seeing images of people losing their homes and possessions/most affected by situation where railway line destroyed on coastline/empathy as living by sea as well
when you see people happening to be in this position you can only sympathise with them
think about the people who lost homes and lives, it increases strees and effects every aspect of their lives#
because you put ypourself into positions of people who have been so grossley affected
JUST FELT SORRY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO GOT THEIR HOUSES FLOODED
because you see people in distress and cannot do anything about it//
why cannot nothing is done when so much money and help is given to others
for anyone else who has lost their homes
For all the people that were flooded out and couldn't get in their homes./Local people they finished up in the leisure centre.//
Because we had friends who lost their properties - saw the damage to businesses in the town and the dusruption it caused to lives and people.//
I was sympathetic with the people who suffered damage and disruption./People I know who suffered damage to their property.//
It was very strong in the town because they got the railway going in two months./I think the men did a wonderful job - they gave them all orange army mugs.//
i feel indifferent to wards the outcome because there is nothing you can do once the event is happening. But not despare because you just have to accept the reality of it.
towards people who have lsot ther homes. Wehn you watch telly seeing people losing all otheir possesions.
I'm grateful that I'm stillhere, able to get about and my Husband and my helath have improved. Good neighbours
generally becasue it didnt happen to me but [eople I knew like my friends were pretty badly hit and the road up here was pretty bad.
Cos we had to have all hte family up here ofr a couple of nights and htey had children and all that.
to see the builidng destroyed completely. the building was deemed to be unsafe so they couldnt go back to get theri belonging sfor months. They only had what they walked out with. People who had not family nearby were in community centres and chuyrch halls. A community suddenly gone. Teh storm was severe. that wasn't right on the sea front, the aqnlge of the wind that night just causght the building.
they spent a lot of money on sea defences and they seem to have made things worse.
you just havfe a feeling, the poor devils they've lost everything. thier cattel and everything.
sorry for hte people worse of fthan I was but a realisation that they weren't really badly pressed, they wernt drowned and it qwould all be rectified once the floods went down.
Its the helplessness that you feel at the time you see a flood occurring becasue you cant do anything about it until it subisdes.
just for thos who were flodded and had their houses flooded and lost reaured possesions
we heard particularly about the Somerset flooding and i very much felt for the farming community. how dreadful the longterm effect would be on them.... if i had been a farmer i would have been involved in rescuing livestock..
because of the vast amount of damage for people and the aftermath of the clear up
i wouldnt want the same thing to happen to me..
THERE WAS ALL THIS WATER FROM THE SEA AND THERE WAS NOTHING ANYONE COULD DO ABOUT IT
so happy taht our house didnt get flooded
just the fear of the storms and the floods, especially li9ving next to the coast...
i sympathised with those poor people who were affected
sympathy with the people that were affected
because ive never seen the sea come up that high before, quite shocking. in all the years weve lived here its never been that bad before. didnt expect it.
probably because there was so more distruption to others, but i nevr experienced it, but it looked horrific
really felt for the poor people down the bottom who were badly affected by the floods
never seen anything like it before, didnt expect it to be in my own town, it was like something you see on the tv
felt over the poor families that suffered with their losses
put yourself in their shoes, they had lost everything, they couldnt move back for months if not years, it could also happen again
when you watched the tv, the poor people lost everything, and it went on for so long, so sad
This is because authorities continue to build on flood plains.
Was not really bothered because it did not effect me.
felt sorry for people who were worst effected /
poeple flooded just due to where they live
feel bad for the people all there photos gone
becuae kids and the children happen to them and old people if all of a sudden flooded it was veryr painfull to hear
for the people been affected by the floods
saw people affected who had been flooding
for other people been flooded and some for the3 second time and they had only just got back in there properties
at the time i didnt understand why it was happening and it was affecting people around me
because i cant think of anything worse than our home being flooded
when you see on TV what theses people had to face/lost their property and all their belongings/how could you not feel sympathy
i felt sorry for them losing all their possesions and property
you just think poor people/lost their homes/we are lucky
people worked hard for what they had and the cutbacks did not offer them any hope
feel sorry for people who hadnt been in their house , coz of the flooding
the goverment should have done more in dredging in river a lot quicker
felt sorry for the people and their belongings
feel the sympathic to who ever it concerned
we were not emotionaly attached to the floods or the overall effect of climate change
becasue you can imagin and sysmpathise with the suffering of other human beings
for the people who had damage to their houses
great sympathy coz I suffered flloding when i lived in gloster
disappointed that we as a nation could allow such things to happen when we have it within our capabilities to do something about it in advance//
because its their home being flooded - some of them do not have insurnace - if they do have insurance they don't wnat to know
to be honest i deliberately bought a house which was a long way from the sea or a river which is on sandy soil - so it did not affect me
i felt so sad for all the people whose houses were damaged with floods
i sympathised deeply for all the victims of the floods
felt sorry for all the people whose houses were flooded
i feel very sad for the people who lost their homes
feel sorry for the peoplw whose homes were flooded
never seen waves or damage like that in seventee years that I have lived here
people should have been warned about the flood well before it happened
i had sympathy for the families that went through it
The extent of the damage, that even the prime minister had to visit the plsce.
i felt very sorry for all the peop;le that were involved and the destruction it caused to their lives
because have lost everything and have got to start again and they were not inusred and you know how it would feel if it happened to you
the communities wsere pulling together and the emergency services and they must have been very thankful for all the help they receiv ed from thema and family and friends
if you were in the same situation and lost all your belongings and the financial costs and disr=uption to your life
feeling for lthe people in that situation because I was involved in floods 1988/89/I was involved in the clean up/because I saw the devastation it caused to families especially uninsured
the poor people homeless/ the furniture gone/
cos they were in it not us/ we were not goingthrough it theywere
these farmers asked for dredging and did not get done/ govt did not doany dredging/
just the mess the houses were in that got floodded
for the families and businesses affected
why do they build houses on flood plains.
easy not to worry about it if not happening to you.
i was frightened that it was going to come into my bungalow
i heard screaming / looked out the window and there was two foot of water / nobody expected it at all
because i was away at the time and didnt know about it till after the event / several days later
for the people who were affected by floods
peole had been warned by the floodings and nothing has been done
well i just feel sorry for the people it did effect, we know some people who who were living down by the railway and the sea crashed right over the wall and they moved in next door to us for three months
i had sympathy with those people whos homes were flooded, it mus t be awful
helplessness beause there was just nothing we could do, it was an act of nature
because i felt sympathetic to people who had their homes and businesses ruined and the fact we were cut off from the whole country, and basically it should never have happened
for the people that were flooded out, i mean if you lose your home it must be disastrous, especially if you have children
because i feel very sorry for peoiple with houses flooded out
because it was hammering down and wind howling, everything was banging and was really frightening/worried about the sofa
greatful for a good local effort in keeping people safe
felt sorry for all those people affected seeing them on the news and that
family in flooded homes did not get to celebrate christmas//
for those who got effected,my daughters school got flooded twice
just the way people helped each other and the two princesses were here in the area and distributing sand bags
the storm suddenly came out of the blue and it was far worse than what you would anticipate//
it was simply with a failur to take note of the past history of the maintainence of the somerset levels and taking notice of people who had maintained them in the past, the neglect of maintaining them, which was very much down to the green lobby, was very uncivilised and quite deliverately done//
because of where the flooding actually affected; for Dawlish the trainline with very significant damage, it was a surprise that it did that much damage//
just becuase it didn't have a massive effect on my wellbeing//
Just sorry for the people who had to move
that it had caused so much damage (the flood)
i have great sympathy for people homes or businesses were distoude
people affected it lasted for such a long time
grateful that i coped and survived and that it was not any worse.
felt so sorry for all those on the somerset levels, the damage caused and how they would get through it, it was their livelihood
feel sympathy for those who were flooded in somerset and more affected than me
because of the nonsense that people talked about it ie undermining that climate change is happening and the oversensualisation of press and some of the flooding was avoidable/
cant do anything just donate money/cant stop the rain or stop people from buying houses in flood plains. the govt should stop building in flood plains and there is too much concrete
alot of people had to rebuild homes. i felt sad for them.
surprised with the amount of support the flood victims receieved.
was surprised how much i was interested in the relief effort and goivernment response.
I think it was surprise at how quickly gthe railway demolished and went and the viaduct was flooded and how quickly it happened in the space of a day.//
Because the people of Dawlish absolutely rose to supporting the people who needed it - it was tremendous - I had pride in the people of Dawlish and how they rallied round.//
Seeing all the people on the news seeing what people were going throuigh and losing their homes.//
There was a lot of people in Dawlish who were impacted by the floods - their stories were on the news - you feel sympathy for the plight they were in.//
because the workers, i know they were getting paid, but they were working in some bad weather and they done what they could
well its such a distressing thing to have water damage in your home, it takes so long to put it right
well because of how they portrayed it, when they interviewed the poor souls, all the young families taken out of thier homes in thier jim jams, and the fact that some of them never got to go back
we were extremelhy grateful that we were able to cope with the fact that rainwater might come into the house, and we are now anxious to get the work done and finished for this winter, your house is your castle and you dont want your castle to be brought down
from watchin g other peoples house flooding on tv
with thw people who were flooded when seen on tv
it has not affected me so i have not paid muvch atention to it
very little effect on me or people i know
because they are still going to build the houses on the flood plain which protects this area
sorry for the people who lose their belogins
people with people who been flooded and lost their properties and belogings
people beein effected and their properties beeing destrojed
Cydymdeimlo gyda bobl a effeithiwyd gan y llifogydd
sYMPATHY FOR OTHER WHOSE PROPERTIES WERE AFFECTED BY THE FLOODS
I guesss i didnt have my house washed/I didnt lose my belongings/No lost of family and friends//
seeing the new report/It made me feel sad and I felt sorry for them//
I felt sympathtic to those who were effected/ HOwever I am not in the position to affect this issue//
ITs problem for the people going to work/ They got wet/ They all got sick//
I usually live in America but since moving here from last year/ I dont hear climate change/
usually the real problem is empahty/ Sympathy you have the same feelings/ The problem is that its the same problem/ you want the people to feel the same as you / So thats a problem and that I feel sympahty//
Its the loss and the houses of the people/ Much of the things an not be replaced//
I just felt really bad for the people's homes that were flooded//
I felt bad for the people who were effected//
Its sad what has happened/ People's lives/ Their home/ The weather change/
there was nothing i could do about it / nothing was insured in my house and if anything got damaged i wouldnt get anything back
for people who had been swamped but could do nothing about it
i heard it on the news that they wre evacuating residents near the bridge but it never occured to me that the flood would get as far as our property
amazed how th e flood changed the land scape
because the situation was beyond my control
felt sorry for the people and their losses and how it effected their lives
we were not in the house when the floods were happening / i new the water was close to my house and there was nothing i could do about it
because alot of my friends had there houses damaged
there was no way i could get out because the street was flooded and no one could get down
to put all moveable valuable items upstairs. Bought flood bags for furniture before 2007 flood.
to the fire service and other agencies who helped
because i would not like that to happen to me
cant imagine how it would feel to lo9se everything and the smell
because i ssw lots of people being affected by the foloods
i had to cope with it my travel was disrupted so i accounted for that
inconvenience of the flood caused property damage near tro this area
you feel like there is almost nothing you can do about htese things - mayube if i had been in the artea ic ould have thought ic ould have done this or that - its a climatic event out of my control /
the political response - the environment mp at the time did not give the best response - also the response of those affected who were asking for help from international charities were expecting a lot more of a response/ it was largely the responsibility of theinsurance companies /
It was a sad time for people but it didn't really effect me
it was very sad yes and i was sympoathic
sad for the people in the south who were floodes for weeks/
for the people it attected/and the time of year, christmas//
because i had friends whose property were flooded//
seeing the cattle being led into huts and then 2 days later the warer had risen again and they had nowhere to go/people can understand but the animals dont//
sympathy fo rthe people that were flooded and the animals that suffered//
first test of new flood defences since 2007 flood which inundated the house.
i had a fire last year in this house and we had to move out for 6 months so i have experienced how traumatic and how much anxiety it can cause when you h ave something major happene to your property and how disruptive it can be
ive experienced flooding or close to a couple of times in my lifetime - water lapping inside my door - sympathy for the sitatuion people were in and the length of time they were affected - ro weeeks
watching and seeing peoples homes dissappear. Government should be doing more
frelt sorry that they were flooded, lost home belongings and their distress
glad i was not a victim but sad that they couldnt save their momentos and have to clear up much sympathy
people living in communities susceptable to surface water flooding and long term impact on accomodation and long term emotional health and coastal communities
sympathy for those badly affected including friends
The 'powers that be', if they all got together and worked together we wouldn't be in this situation we're in, we could sort all these things out//
When it happened there was nothing I could do to help /
We felt very sorry for the people involved that had to move out
Just sorry for all the people who suffered
cant help them phsically, the people who are responsible should do more about it
for the people who it affected - it was p retty bad for them
because we could not help the people affected down here
BECAUSE I know how'd i'd feel in that situation and the helplessness
for the victims of flooding and their lives being on hold or completely wrecked
Because of previous narrow escapes from flooding. And flood damage in our community.//
Because there's absolutely nothing I can do about it. It needs massive state infrastructure investment.//
I was very sympathetic to the people who were affected.//
I think it was people showed concern - people were aware of where I lived the possibility I might have flooded and people phoned me up to see whether I needed any help and I was very grateful for that.//
Because I hjad thought that the rail network had got that sorted out - that was at Cowley Bridge that was before the flooding here./And they hadn't got it sorted out - they're going to have to start digging up the River Exe.//
i felt sorry for the people who were flooded out
Anger because the government should have done more to prevent the damage /
I FEEL THAT THE PEOPLE AFFECTED, WERE VERY UNFORTUNATE
the government and volunteers helping affected people
surprised it happened where i was orlston
people being out there house and losing everything
A few committees were formed and people donated money, which someone in my family recieved some of, and also people who were evacuated were put up in a local caravan park which was lovely, and one of the cafes gave free meals to people//
because the likelihood is that it's going to get worse in the future and there's very little I can do about it and the politicians and the international community don't seem to be commited to doing anything serious about it//
i sympathised with everyone that became homeless//
for the people affected who had to evacuate their houses, some of them were out of their homes for quite some while//
all the people that were affected in our community, our shops were affected, the pub was flooded//
just the fierceness of the storm over the one night and how quickly they repaired the trainline//
IT CAN AND PROBABLY WILL HAPPEN AGAIN(THE FLOODING)I AM ANXIOUS FOR THE FUTURE GOVERNMENT PREDICTIONS ARE FOR THE WHOLE SEVERN VALLEY TO BE PERMANANTLY FLOODED IN 100 YEARS TIME.
it didnt affect me or any of my family members
I FELT FOR THOSE BADLY AFFECTED BY THE FLOODING
I FELT SORRY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT HOUSES WHICH SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO BE BUILT ON FLOOD PRONE AREAS
i didnt think the people got enough help they were stranded for months farmers with animals stranded
just felt sorry for the people losing everything
i felt very sorry for all the things that some people lost in the floods
i always bknew that there was a lot of flooding in certain areas
i could imagine the horror of having ones home devastated and then the awful job of clearing up for people who were affected
II FEEL IT FORM PEOLPE WHOSE HOMES WERE AFFECTED AND HAD TO MOVE OUT,
ITS THE PEOPLE WHO GET FLOODED CONSTANTLY HAVE MAJOR IMPACT AND GREAT EXPENSE AND SOME PEOPLE LOOSE FAMILY MEMBERS AS WELL.
the same people every time are hit their homes are uninsurable their homes are unsellable and incidence of flooding is getting worse so they are trapped and getting worn out by it.
for the people affected it was a very unpleasant experiance
I WAS GRATEFULK I WAS NOT AFFECTED AND I WS NOT IN THE POSITOION THAT SOME PEOPLE WERE IN.
govt failed to maintain waterways 1997 policy stopped dredging
we in Dawlish paid highest counciol tax and got no service - dredging and drains were not done.
affected a lot of people - lost homes, loss to industry, economic, people'slives disrupted significantly
my whole life changed and with a small baby
number of my friends and colleagues were effected by floods and were forced to leave the homes
because i just took it as a flood i accepted ..this happens in glostershire every year
we were stuck indoors and had to cope our village was cut off by water
becasue i couldnt do anything ,, we had to do a detour in our driving to work..
felt sorry for the victims and businesses affected
people that live tound here know what to expect/ the people that maintain the pump down by the river had a huge wall of water affect them because they didnt put a plate back on the pump correctly and so it didnt work - i feel sympathy for those people/ we walk our dog every day down by the river and you see the water rising so you know what to expect/.../-
i felt it for those who were caught in it and suffered worse than us /-
its the uncertainty as to wether the water level in our drainage ditch will exceeed the level it can cope - the anxiety comes when you are either not at home to deal with it or it happens when you are in bed/ if it happens when you can deal with it then you can do somthing about it but it can flood very quickly so you need to be actually available to take action / this is why ist causes anxiety /-
erm...... well because there is a powerlessness as an individiaul, we can do all the things you can, spend money to ciope with these scenarios, yet there are things that can be done to help our village environment, yet its slow........... well its just not happening and i know that we are not the worse hit/ to some degree its about the parish council putting pressure on the borough council and them then understanding the high need - its a case of local government actually doing somthing rather than being seen to be doing something/ we are just a small village, but if we were on the edge of gloucester or worcester then something would be done/ being flooded 3 times in 14 months is not easy -n this is for a week at kleast each time /-
people losing all their belongings, having to move out - just all the stress that this causes /-
because our house is high up enough to not be flooded - i could drive to work, so although i had to take a different route, at least i didnt have to walk - it was just inconvienient /-
just from seeing on tv people had to leave there homes
people going out of there way to help each other
flooding is not a very nice experience for any family to go through

Before we complete the survey are there any other comments that you’d like to make about what we have discussed today or your experiences of flooding?
the information on climate change is very conflicting so it is confusing
the question about climate change affecting the uk obviously coastal areas are going to be affected more than higher areas
partly environment and part climate change
the government should do a lot more about the flooding rather than privatision of public works
no more its been quite thorough already,
i thunk more needs to be done in terms of planning for future such events and this needs to be done by the governmentment and local area agencies LAA.
flooding is partly man made by bad land management
it flooded in 1800's, in 1947, in 2013, i'm sure its a natural cause of events//
anybody who improves flood relief other than starting at the mouth of the river have to have their sanity tested/ feel strongly about somerset levels, waters were dropped without consultation with the local people, water was stopped to prevent flooding lower down//
it is taking too long to rectify issues and it was too long before people got involved.
It was a very sobering experince to learn form travelling to parts of Africa
it is inevitable that climate will change but it is not down just to humanity
the atmosphere - we should be doing more to reduce the level of pollution in our local environment that may harm our health. But as far as power is concerned the 2 most likely ways to reduce GhGs is nuclear and tidal power (in the UK)
the lady has lived 4 years at this address but has lived in muswell hill for 24 years (nearby area)
I think this is good research what you are doing for climate change and bad weather problems, we are lucky not to be affected by such bad floods here in this area
the government should fix the issues of climate change by making large businesses such as electricity companies to pay for solving the issues, by stopping polluting the earth with their waste, its a global and more senior govt can resolve this problem, not just individuals.
a lot of the questions were assuming that the flooding was due to climate change
the flooding makes people think about the community and pulling together and being kind which is a shame because it happens very little in day to day life
i am becoming more aware of these issues
people could be better off if they did their own research on property before buying it and not blame the gov.t for the floods/ flooding is not necessarily due to human activity but due to the cycles of the earths
i wish we had a chance to speak to david cameron or the queen and ask them why if they stop making wars anywhere this would reduce global warming and climate change. They giving arms and weapons to rebel groups and this causes further pollution
i think it is a horrible thing to happen to people/more people will be affected/the government has not done enough in regards to prevention such as dredging the rivers and building flood defences now that this flood has passed the issue is being ignored again and i think the will not address the issues until it happens again
i think they need to dredge the canals and the thames/it would help us/at least we would know that something had been done/
main concern about lack of dredging of watercourses of all sorts, and concreting over otherwise porous land//
our house insurance is high because we live near flood area. Flood advice is always directed to website, never\any personal advice from environment agency, why don't you do this simple advice? advice prior to event //
it was not properly delat with, people were caught out by surprise/some roads badly effected. Got recorded alerts over phone, but would have preferred live updates/info
grateful for oppertunity to express opinons about flooding in this area in such a comprehesive way.
angry that they havent dredged flood relief channel or river upstream
I acknowledge global warming is happening but dont believe CO2 emmissions have little to do with it
the government can do more to raise awareness and precautions about flooding
we haven't had any flooding experience but we've had friends that have been affected in cornwall and we've seen the damage it can have on peoples lives, and businesses aswell
other than the face people should be more aware of climate change. people arent get a cleaer message from politicians and scientists as they disagree so people are undecided.
wish they would stop building on floodplains and filling in front gardens with car parking. need better river management.
a lot of it is rubbish, doesnt affect me as too old to be affected by climate change. 82 & always lived here.
no experience of flooding cos no flooding.
i worry about teh build up of cities and towns, getting rid of green areas so flooding more likely to take place. its ridiculous.
no just this discussion will make me think more about climate change.
it should be more flood planning and protection
many answers about where we are , but we are uphill so no floods, if we were on low ground would be more involved
no, i am from portugal, and vote there, have been flooded there
flooding needs to be sorted out, affecting too many lives
local council need to do some projects to help local resident in flooding
Generalised questions are difficult to answer because case-to-case everything is different and unique.//
respondent's concern is answers provided can be used to suggest climate change is the prime cause of many current issues; in fact the respondent does not believe this to be the case. Also: all governments make capital out of disasters to mask their own shortcomings.
Respondent says Walton is on a flood plain which preceded construction of London Barrier. Since then Waltion has not been seriously flooded. So it affects property values being on a floosd plain but in the respondent's view this is no longer relevant.
cimate change is all rubbish/just a way for the Government to extract more tax\from us
not about flooding/govt needs to put caps on how much energy the individual uses/also it is down to education/
i have done a lot of private reading on climate change. i believe climate change distract attention from more important environmental issues.
some of the questios were leading.Edwin was very good.
none. some of my answers dont show a concern but thats because we live on top of a hill that doesnt flood!
the experts can't agree on climate change so difficult to make up my mind on these questions
the quwstions are not specific enough to make an informed answer.
When someone was employed to keep ditches and waterways clear we never had flooding years ago, and that was in the countryside.
The survey has made me to think more about my personal usage of appliances.
I think the survey questions need reviewing.
unfairness to people who have worked all there lives.
i think the world would be a better place without the government system, i think they are the main cause of climate change and maybe more investement should be put into the scientific side of things rather than the flood defense side of things, invest the money that way instead
no i think weve gone through it all actually
climate change needs to tacckle climate chane/flood prevention etc/international coperation
climate warning is miore batural than man made/foolish to build on flood plains/any flood prvention scheme would move the problem downstream/uk is slowly tilting into sea westwards
Climate change should really be taken more seriously and not be used as an election tool
Country needs a fairer distribtion of the public purse. Authorities should have better and effective control over relevant finances.
i think that the thames barrier needs to be ugraded and more money invested in making sure that it still protects us in london, because it is very vital, and if we did not have that then we would all be flooded.
i would like to see more visibility Govt level how hotspots could be dealt with/would like to see some evidence
If you look at the environemts I think it's up to governemnt direc\tives as to how we build and where we build./Houses could be more ecology-friendly without making them extortionately expensive.//
I don't think so - I think it's going to happen and that's as much as you can say.//
i am one of the flood warnings in the area, we close the gates when there is a high tide or risk
for a survey about climate change they have used a lot of paper
the questionnaire is somewhat biased it does not contain any discussion the way the police, the environment agency and Thames Water did their jobs/Ed Milliband came along and he did not have waders so he couldn't do anything/
we are not given enough true information in relation to environmental issues worl;d wide \and uk
i dont believe the flooding is done to any one single issue/but is and has been caused by man and man's mismanagement of various eco systems/
anger towards the government not making a quick enough response
i am extremely angry and disappointed in the showmanship of the politicians and nothing has happened since the media spotlight has gone/nothing has been done for this area since the floods have gone
the problem we have is that we have a flood relief channel which only protects windsor & maidenhead/the proposal is to build another to protect everyone from here to Richmond, we have plans, plans and more plans but what we don't have is money £300 million to be precise/that's what we need everyone knows that is the solution to the problem we just need to get on with it the politicians are arguing over it/we the residents should chip in some additional local taxes to pay as we are the ones who will benefit from the flood relief channel/i am happy to pay an amount to get the benefit/when we first came we did not have main drainage and when the local council proposed this we chipped in and paid and we got main drainage installed in the year 2000/its the same situation with the flooding/ the 15,000 properties should pay something towards the lower thames flood relief scheme
jubille river was built to elleviate Maindenhead flooding so all the flood water from Mainhead was redirected which affected Wraysbury and housing down river/authorities have admitted it and new works are in process/extension will move outflow/many houses have been demolished or refurbished due to the flooding/they will be rebuilding housing for 6 months to 2 years//
strongly disagree with new runway at heathrow/the polution and noise means you cannot sit outside/also more cars on m25//
it would have been nice if someone could help people like me who didnt claim anything//
far more people were affected along the humber than in summerset,yet we had hardly any cover//
climate change has been hijacked by the politisions to make money. Very confusing signals from science community on climate change
if flooding occurs people expect other people to sort out the problem. i.e. They do not take responsibility for theor own home.
DIFFICULT TO MAKE UP ONES MIND/CONFLICTING INFORMATION FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES/ARE THE EVENTS HAPPENING/HARD TO JUDGE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
fracking is not the answer/more green renewables/nuclear waste is a long term problem/more investment -prioratise goernment spending-less defece or armermnts- too much bombing
QUestion showcard Lc is bias - dont agree with it
we needbto preserve the environment not destroy it
Found the survey interesting - Imigration is a large problem for the country
Hope I have made sense of what I have send
I am not a house buyilder myself. However housebuilders and building on flood plans which may make matters worse. Too much Hard landscaping which causes drains to be unable to cope with water in area of sontruction
give land MANAGEMENT BACK TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES
in certain locals more wind turbines and solar panels should be incouraged and would help. I do not beleive in necluar power
recently attended an energy group in area of my house to reduce consumsion of energy if area has 10 reduction the area will be gifted money as a community projects . This was as a result of ACAT initiative. We as a community should use more solar/ wind power/ most new build should have more energy collection systems in place as planning regulations
public should be more aware by highlighting effect of weather issues
I thinlk it's a dual concern - funding from the council will protect the communities - you can protect your own home but funding from the governemt is required to protect the community as a whole.//
Been a bit of fun/I think it's nice that they're interested./The Somerset levels were only to be - occupied in the summer - it's going to be very difficult to protect them./We're up from the sea and on the 2nd floor so I think we're fairly safe.//
community works wells together and emergency services very organised//
complex subject, flooding has numerous causes, changing weather patterns over demand for scarce land, excess demand on drainage system, politicians divided over subject//
mum was flooded out in 2007, they ewere out of house for over a year, in hotel and then in caravan 2 feet deep haresfield//
although we were not flooded half of our garden fell into the sea felt it was due to lack of i9nspection of the cliff face and change of corporation
I think greater research before building on flood plains
if the government would just listen to the people it could be avoided and if more money spent instead of sending it abroad
I have completed the survey on the basis of never having expereinced any flooding myself
because we wreen't directly involved it is hard to know how you would feel about it and if we had been affected more directly we would have stronger views on taking action
this survey stick to flooding not to politics
the last questions are more political than climate change
i think floding often a man made thing/result of bad planning and poor investment/
authorities were unprepared/they seemed to know it was coming but we only heard when it happened/complete lack of communication/information was inconsistent/local residents coped well/a local resident was related to a local flood warden/he organised everyone along with a team of 10 local residents/ army and polititions turned up too late/authorities did a good job when they did turn up but the delay cost poeples homess//
just that the council need to clean out all the draind etc ready for the winter this woiuld help graetly
i worry that the government and council dont do enough to protect all areas from flooding
if there could be more warning when it was going to flood/
make sure the drains are kept and updated and kept in a good condition
government shoud pay more heed, dregdge all rivers , not just somerset /
people ripping up gardens cause flooding//
the questions are unspecific and vague in certain areas//
i believe global warming isn't actually happening, but the government are trying to get us to stop so called pollution, and give them an excuse to raise taxes etc... congestion charge in london for example...
it was said the flooding here was due to the gates being opened at Maidenhead
professional interest in flood defences construction and insurance claim handling for floods.
I don't know. - If they'd finished the work on the drain from the camp site across the road it might have stopped the flooding./They could have found the money from somewhere and finished it.//
It'll be known in the next feww weeks the outcome of the report on the railway line. I think they've got to link the railway lne to coastal protection./If they were to abandon the railway line and abandon the coast it would have amjor impact on Dawlish & Teignmouth.//
At the Spelthorne Flood meeting a series of agencies: Thames Water / Environment Agency / Speltherone Borough Council all said that the overall responsibility for various aspects were outside of their control, nothing much has been done since the flood and i fully expect this area to be flood again soon.
we've not had first hand experience, but more money should be put into dredging, ditching, looking after landscape to avoid future problems.
The question about insurance - I can get buildings insured but cant get insurance against the effects / the Arun river is a basin and meets the Rother here - the increased land clearance and development has casued a problem locally. The attempts at funelling the river to the sea have negated the effect of flood plains//
dont want the info to be used for marketing
Feels very strongly about building on flood plains and green belt areas people need green spaces
we are lucky that we are in a country that where help is available to people who have been subjected to flooding.
Just the way they allow the amount of immigrants into the country and they are living off our social services and we are paying taxes to keep them alive
It's good to hear that they are being discussed
I think there is more discrimination against the average white male these days than there is against the average black female
climate change is a natural effect no need to worry
locally the drains need better maintenance and have more trees in a controlled environment so that they absorb moisture and concern that not enough research into better use of nature - stop destroting the environment! less demolition to provide facilities for the rich.
don't really experience flooding locally but did have problems in university as it6 was by a river
we are too parochial and there are islands that are disappearing because of what we do
local river tobe dregged frequently and deep
someone i know said there is a cycle of weather that comes and goes
I think most flooding in the area would have been avoided if the drains had been kept clear - even today if it rains it builds up.
insurance companies ripping off flood victims
hoping thisresearch willresultsin real things being activated
The issue of climate change is still a grey area and lack of investment and control of local authorities
I feel very strongly about what we've discussed - apparently I'm in the minority - the moral & crime issue that we discussed - and the fact that I feel that English people are going to be in the minority in England one of these days.//
No - perhaps a sense of frustration the way things are going with the country - I'd like to see change./I'd like a referendum on the EU.//
i live at the top of the hill which would affect my answers
flood defence/protection like flood barriers/gates/doors should have been used early stage throughout uk flood area/constrate on drainage issues/rain water/surface water not clearing quickly from residencial area//
goveremnts should be responsible for health/education/pension/road/
I think there was too much conflicting information. Emergency services struggled to cope.
Any building approval given to developers must be given approval by central government. It should not through happen local government as might be biased influenced by local factors
I think is a sad thing that we are building properties in flood affected areas and not learning from it
i thought that the flood victims were let down by the government and the farmers institute//
ne of the main impacts of flooding is living near water so they need to look at suitable properties near water ie on stilts and controling water levels where they can and where they cant remove the population//
i just think with flooding alot of it is the councils fault because they are building alot more homes and they are not up grading the pipes ect to take the xtra pressure
very complex issue and cant be nailed down by one difinitive answer/ there is a bigger picture/ need more info/cant really say climate change cause floods
it was not recognised about how badly hull was flooded in 2007. the drains were to blame for a lot of the flooding and not climate change/the government should get people who know what they are talking about to do with climate change//
Infrastructure is key to preventing flooding/natural disaters. Climate records we have only go back 200 years - not really relevant to the world in the solar system and weather pattern trends.
the idea of local community helping is good thing. but its not something individuals can much about. up to goverment agengies to protect us?~
goverment responsibility to address flood problems/
energy efficient appliances are very expensive to purchase// dont have computer in the flat//
i think the comment i will add is that the severe effects of climate change is going to affect the 3rd world and i dont think the developed world pay enough attention to what we are to do about the people affected/p//
interview was good happy to do it survey should go further
interested to see if there is an underlyingaim to the questions
yeh i think that the importance of educating the populace about the fluidity of our situation to the point where it becomes familiar so counter measures can be taken
not really/this survey was educational to me/-
i truely believe its propergander/ changes have been happening since the begginning of time/ a natural proccess//
people are being brainwashed about climate change/at 14 i joined merchant navy, ive seen all types of weather and think it is a natural thing/ it might take 50 yrs who knows//
should do more to pepare before the floods come//
someone needs to get a clear idea of how they are going to tackle the smptoms of climate change/we rent going to be able to stop it but we need to deal with it//
flooding is due to lack of investment to drains and building on flood plains
the climate change is due to mass manufacture
I'd like to reiterate the fact that there's too much concrete - there's too much building on flood plains - there's not enough care for rivers in terms of dredging and this allows water to build up and not disperse and thii is what needs to be addressed.//
I would say most causes of the issues involved in the environment are not taken seriously by the government and due to their long-term lack of investment is the reason why we are being affected more so than we should be. This included irresponsible house-building and planning.//
no not really i think ive gone through most things
just thank you for picking us, its been a pleasure speaking to you
only that other parts of the country could learn from the east of england and the dutch people/because the dutch drained the fens/-
no not really/we've covered everything i've experienced/-
i think global warming some countries are affectived by this/its global/-
i need to be re-educated on climate change/-
the real thing that gets me is allowing the concreting of gardens for cars/front back and sides/it must have an effect/displacement of water from sinking in to garden to being channelled into storm drains that cant cope/ also they should keep up the thames conservancy work/they used to have a flood warden who would monitor flood bank, storm drains and flood areas clear every year/now nobody checks a thing/storm drains silted up//
authorities like EA need to speak to people in the areas not just rely on their own tests. etc//
how some houses got planning permission on a flood plan surprises me//
my only observation is why aren't the govt doing more surveys like this/why has it not happened before/no proactive govtpolicy for areas prone to flooding/research be done in advance not retrospectively//
Some of questions are too general. Difficult to know what perspecfive to anmswer questions from
i think they need to learn to address the flood plain issue along with the real need for sustainable housing
My home was not affected but the farmland was
respondent is really wprorried about future generations and no-one is doinganything.
it effected me & family greatly and do seriously worry about it happening in the future. I do think its unfair goverment is being blamed for freak events of nature, but do think they can look at problem a bit more.
too many questions are too repetitive thus making the survey too long
goverment should put effort into river over spilling/draines inadequate etc//
No clear ledaership in the country by politicions
because of immigration we have to do more building and infrostructure weare a small island and cant cope with everyone//
its rubbish . flooding is a national catastrovy by allowing housing to bein built on low lying areas and this is why it is being caused as too much blockage and there is plenty of rivers, but not working properly. The water board should do their job properly instead of paying top dogs/-
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THE QUESTIONS ARE TOO BROAD FOR ACCURATE ANSWERING. I WOULD NEED MORE INFORMATION
I find this intersesting to give my views /
No experience of flooding locally, but accept that it is distressing when it happens to others
Too much property development in flood plain areas.
Problems of fracking, sink holes and building on flood plains, erosion of coastline all play a part.
No experience of flooding, but recognition of other people's plight.
Climate change has been on going for centuries and will keep on ocurring and re-ocurring
No experience of flooding in Aberlour, but flood prevent schemes in Moray seem to be working.
difficult to say when you are not affected personally
some questions expected simple answers for very complex issues
we havent experienced flooding here so some of answers more relevent to people who had experienced it/some anger at companies allowed to build properties on flood planes and then just walking away
i see alot of weather in my job and it sdefiniatly changing
I was not affected at all by the floodings
stop giving all the money to foreigners, let their own countrys supply them//
I feel that it is important that the survey is being done.
Some of the questions seemed a little ambigious.
Local Road floods regularly causing trouble with travel to work.
Interested on effect of wooded areas being replaced by housing
agricultural practices and land use need to be closely looked at as contributary factors in flooding.
if this climate change is about to happen i thi nk people should be more informed inorder to better perpate themselves
more should be spent on flood defences and upkeep of the national drainage system / more surge barriers
there are no drain clear we used to have our drains cleared but this doesnt happen anymore,
glad to know the problem is being studied in depth as environmental issues will affect us all and I fear for the young generations
More capture of water before returning to sea
house building does not consider possible flooding/
we need to learn from the last flood and be better prepared //
the government could do a lot more for people like dredging rivers because prevention is better than cure.
it appears that that if there is loads of dorughrts lots poor pople will head to rich countries .
i do feel media as usual are responsible for a lot of miss-infoprmation. clinmate change is ver important but not the only responsible for climate geographicaly does change . not to say we should not be all ressopnible for squandering earths resources dada
From what ive seen most could be avoided.
i think a lot of where we cause the problems are easily fixed but the will to do it is not there by individuals governments etc
the climate is a variable thing which has happened by millenia but human being using carbon emitions are adding to the problems governments should put pressure on insurance companies to give proper conpensation if people are affected by this
in some of the questions the selection of answers are not relevant.
recent floods were unexpected and we didnt get enough warning//
i think its an unproven science and until more proven facts are presented to peaople we will remain sceptical unless we are impacted by events//
live on edge of severn floodplain which was completely flooded
most floods caused by lack of maintenance to river banks and sea wall and lack of dredging.
at times i feel grateful it has not happened to me it does not seem real
the uk has to look to the usa for the bvest flood prevention systme in the world . we have to somting about dreging our waterways.
climate change is a global issue but those areas of thr world that are causing most damage (undeveloped european countries}are doing the least to control it.
it starts by asking wether or not i believe in climate change then after saying no it stills goes on to ask questions about the affects of it which in my case is irrelivent,. it also assumede that flooding is a result of climjate change//a change to my answer of question 2 re main problems facing us in next 20 years in my opinion it will be a lack of resources on a global scale//
i believe climate change is a natural process that occures. We are not helping matters in certain developing countries as they are using natural resources and old harmful farming techniques
future we need to be more prepared/the way peolpe are treated by insurance comapnies//
surprisingly soton has significant levels of flood risk/we limit nature & every now & then it bites us on the bum we need to be a little bit more respectful//
as far as flooding goes, I think that people are frightened of the effect and not the event, which is the wrong way of dealing with it. It should be about dealing with the event not dealing with afterwards.
quite difficult to answerthe question re climate change as everyone is saying it is happening but was it happening 200 or 2000 years ago?/why did the dinosaurs disappear?
ALOT OF ANSWERS WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IF I LIVED IN FLOOD PRONE AREA.
the government should invest more for towns and citys and grow more trees near water banks
it is down to the governments and authorities to sort out
None of the political parties have yet greasped thew importance of climate change
I would have liked this survey to have been through the welsh language !!
I just wish councils would keep drains clear p don't make em as big as they used to p Yorkshire Water has made an oasis nearby to relieve flooding from rivers p spent a lot of money on pump house in last year next door to my house
not enough evidence that directly link global warming to flooding/but there is cause for concern//
there is an awful lot more that could be done if someone could take lead / such as parish council to try to bring everyone together
one of the things that attributes around here is they dont dredge the rivers anymore or clean drains enough
govt. have made good strides to improve flood defences
cause is neglect of river dredging and building on flood plains
i would like to see a risk assessment for the vulnerable areas and communities and people where clearance should be with regard to flooding/computer modelling would be good but no one sees it
apart from that someone doing a survey with hopefulness to sorting out something in the future
been inovled in 2 floods in this area and i have seen the problems caused/building houses here there and everywhere and concreting over everything
flooding in this area is not due to climate it floods every year,arrangements shud b made for the river to take the water away
limited experiences of flooding, i was affected by it rather than actually suffering
government should give more information about climate change and flood risk
its difficult to know what the true effects of climate change are
all our flood defences are payed for by our local community and work
i think primerily its local building and poor planning that has caused a lot of the problems ... within gloucestershire / i dont believe that paying more for energy will neccisarily make it any greener / until large corporations and government bodies become more efficient themselves there will be a lot of contradictions / examples - the school i'm at we dont have proper double glazing in a 40-year old building /-
they are jumping on the band wagon to excuse themselves for not doing flood prevention
the wind was such intensity on the 5th february this year coming off of the sea it ripped the lead covering off of the dormer windows and all the rain came in ripped all of the cover off and all the rain came in the the 2 fir trees opposite 50-- 60 feet high snapped off and blocked the road
my friend was affected by the storm it drove the people from their house as it was undermined
all new new builds with solar panels as part of the building regs regenerate the properties in the town as first starter homes instaed of building outwards all the time
local government needs to be more proactive speedier response
you can't get insurance round here for flooding.
My only experience is that of my cousins home being flooded last winter
government should have helped more in flooded areas instead of MPs getting high wages
Need to be more prepared in flood affected areas
The survey should be in the Welsh Language
I almost refused because the survey showcards were in English and I wanted it done in Welsh but your interviewer kindly translated. Cardiff University should adopt a bilingual policy.
we have not been effected by climate change until recently/ plus raeas have increased in size and population and as a result in inappropriate areas
it is something you dont expect to happen but you have to do your best / experienced three times
if any help can b provided to get us back to normal
lack of information on the situation in the early stages,official inaction in early stages of flood only volunteers made noise to attract the media and in the end the government came
I have seen no evidence from the govt. or enviroment agency to satisfy me that it could not happen again
put maintenance before development (eg dont need high speed trains, stop subsidising wind farms being paid from my electricity bill//
i monitor the erosion of the river bank and this goes back to environment eagency//
if the govenment could find some way oif putting solar panels onto each home. building on floods planes should not b permitted//
We need educate people be able to cope with life and manage properly.Lack of dredging. building on floodplains is causing problems, I think that if they asked the pertinent questions of people not all these people would get benefits//
I THINK OVER POPULATION IS A MUCH BIGGER PROBLEM TO THE WORLD THAN CLIMATE CHANGE IF THERE REALLY IS SUCH A THING
climate change should be discussed more in public and published in the media more
well the answers to those questions were looking at me at my best, what im saying is ive given you my best answers in an ideal world but i dont always live up to them
no i think nothing has been said about how indiviuals could help in regard to climate change, even the ssimpleest thing like recycling
we do not have any experience of flooding in this area
The respondent is a student living in a property in the st5 postcode area owned by the family. The respondent returned to the family home in Decemeber time and experienced the floods in postcode HR4.
life is all about love and putting others before yourself/we should encourage love/love solves the roots of all problems//
only to say climate change is a natural phenomennon and not man made, but man is contributing to making it worse//
i think climate change is being used as an excuse for bad management - red herring, mainly caused by building on floodplains and human activity//
In 2007 I was living in an area which suffered water supply loss due to flooding of the pumping station in Tewkesbury. This flood affected me more than the one in 2013. My answers were difficult to give sometimes as I considered whether investment in defences would affect future flooding.//
in 2007 we were getting married in a barn and it all got completely flooded//
flooding is caused by rivers not being dreged properly
the flooding was more man made than climate change
i havent been affected myself but there are thousands who get affected eacvh year and i think more information needs to be given out to everybody about it then people might come togethr a bit more when these floodiing sitations happen //
i think a lot of the problem with flooding is there too many trees being cut down and there are too many people putting concrete or cement on their fron gardens. there is too much concret in the country and less trees and i think drainage is being affected by this//
no more comments . happy to have taken part
stop hyping climate change / just build less houses unless DRAINAGE IS UPGRADED.
We dont hear enough about the prevention. What we should do in the event of flooding in my area.
fracking hasnt been addressed in the survey nor has preserving woodland/ i am very concerned about these things/im concerned about impact of capitalism on our countryside//
flooding will be more prevalent and i do think it is the fault of global warning and i do think that mankind has a huge part to play but i dont think its apocalyptic//
i feel that the ambiguity of certain questions can mislead the outcome of this poll/i would hope that as climate change is set to ruin everyones life globally that those of us who can contribute to a possible positive change to capitalist rule might try to be as positively manipulative and honest as we can/i would dearly love to think that this poll could just possibly remotely improve mankinds luck//
a few years ago i tried going over a ford and discovered how powerful water really is
we should be moer prepared as we can afford it
better bif you did not keep repeating the same questions
was unable to take my train out of the depot due to high winds and flooding n
uncontrolled building on flood planes affects us all and where we live
maintain drains better/should put wind farms in the ocean where we cant see them/would like proof if they are working/
response to the flooding was excellent in the local authority and the repairs have been achieved very rapidly with regard to the response of the Welsh government
more people should opt into this survey to give a good view of the area
the govt should do more to tackle the flooding as it is becoming more of an issue ie dredging the rivers (as said by local people who live near them)
Flooding in the UK is far more complex than being a climate change issue. In the Uk Climate change has had a very minor effect. 45 yrs to go up half a degree....!
why are mps on treble or more than the average wage. they are a greedy SO and SO.
for planning purpose esp. new housing developments PLEASE consider the enviromental consequences as well AS the financial aspects.
there are alot of people who go around saying they know alot about climate change, but actually they dont. there are a small number of scientists who dont agree with it but they are right, they are the ones who understand what is going on.
cant believe in this day and age we cant have water wherewe should have it. SOrt our reservoirs and more pipes that way it would be solved. Keep reservoirs full so no droughts/-
preparation, anticipating flooding in flood prone areas, not building on flood plains/-
HAVENT HAD ANY DIRECT EXPERIENCE BUT SEEN THE EFFECTS OF DISRUPTION OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS UP NORTH
ITS A /EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHANGE, WHERE AS IF ONLY ONE NOTHING WOULD HELP/COMPANIES DO NOT HELP/-HOW DO YOU RUN AN ELECTRIC CAR-HAVE TO BURN FOSSIL FUELS TO CHARGE IT/
my experience of flooding is minimum and no one i know is affected
it is a natural process and should maintain water areas and not build in flood planes
government should be more aware of clearing drins and not build so much on flood plains or buil on stilts
we were strongly affected by wind last year coastal errosion is very bad
flooding is a growing concern in the uk and can be linked to climate change//
i find flooding very scary. i hope it never happens to me.
lets hope flood prevention schemes get put in place
everybody should have listened to enok powell in the 60s
ive not experienced it so cant say/its not climate change, its building on the country side and one of those things
the farmers used to clear the ditches and the rivers to make sure they were not silted up/this may have caused the floods and not due to climate change
the drains in my neighbourhood are bad and worry about value of my property dropping down/ people does not want to live in flooded area//
seen severe flooding and know some family that lost their loved ones
there is a big management issue about taking control of things like water management
would have liked to have seen further discussion on flooding/climate change globally
more money needs to be spent away from london
I found it good that it was a local person was asking the questions
if you have not experienced your property being flooded then it is difficult to explain your feelings
only that i think more money shoud be spend on dredging rivers. i think overseas aid should be cut to spend more on our local flood defences, coastal and river management //
it is a regular thing round worcester now we have got used to it now. we wait for the race course to be flooded and know the river is going to burst its banks //
basically climate change has been a subject at one of my lectures when i was at unversity/manchester metropolitan university aims to be the greenest university in the uk//
i do find this topic is not mentioned nearly enough in terms of how urgent this is .people dont seem to care/in order to deal with heavy traffic there should be bike paths so people would feel safe using them//
the nhs is a concern, especially with the elderly, when you reach a certain age, they are not bothered about the care and they are pushed under the carpet
would only buy environmentally friendly products if they are affordable//
i sometimes think that climate change can not contributed by human behaviour changes. We might need to rely 80% on technolgy
because of heavy rain i find that water cannot get out causing flooding. Local gov do not know how to deal with this.
its a worthy cause, more research needed into climate change in general and also flooding. The government have not done enough to protect its own people
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS ARE SLIGHTLY HYSTERICAL, BECAUSE ONE DAY WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER ICE AGE
should change showcards round and put them in a different order
live just a bit away from area that was flooded, saw it all but wasnt affected
None. i think that there are things which coiuld be done throughout the world to combat climate change
the survey assumes climate change is/was occurring
makes me realise im not that environmentally friendly
i think there should be more awareness of other influences other the man made ones/ alot of emphasis is put on individuals by the govt to change think / creates affordability issues for people/ other parts of the world are not taking it so serious as an issue
there is alot of talk about the weather/ energy efficiency but no mention of the population / the more people there are the more houses they have to build
We were affected by 2007 flooding - so long as culverts are kept clear we wont be affected, couldnt get out of house for 24 hours//
i wonder if my washing out my mackerel tin as an effort to recycle, in any way negates what some of the larger nations are churning out /climate change//
Concern about houses being built on floodplains locally.
People could be told a lot sooner as to what to expect. Just to let people know...
Building on water meadows/flood plains does concern me. I am concerned about all the building that is going on in unsuitable places. To then say it's the householder's responsibility is not fair//
WE DONT UNDERSTAND THE CLIMATE ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND IF IT ISN OU IMPACTS THAT ARE AFFECTING IT
I WOULD BE MUCH MORE OPEN TO MORE TAXES TO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT IF MY HOUSEHOLD BUGET WERE NOT SO STRESSED.I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OUR GOVERNMENT SPEND OUR MONEY ON ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES RATHER THAN POORLY THOUGH OUT FOREIGN POLICY AND WAR FOR RESOURCES.
I do not believe anything the public voice to the government, will be listend to and carried out(govenment will not do as the voters wish)
There is too much presumption in this survey that the respondent will accept that climate change is in fact happening.
No we have covered everything, quite comprehensively in fact.
get free swimming lessons seems relevant/ distruptions to my daily chores and activities//
local council should maintain waterways//
talking about it has made me more aware and brought that experience and memeories of the flooding back
some questions leading from a partic standpoint and not independant/too many narrow questions for wide issues
it is goi9ng to happen and become more frequent
Not voting-don trust any of the politicians//
village is affected by flooding every year, but I chose a property on high ground deliberately to avoid this. river floods annually. parish worst affected in 2007, since when some improvements have been made to flood defences. i am a local parish councillor so have been involved in many meetings over flooding.
the climate is constantly changing by natural events, eg sahara was once green and fertile.
Always seems Government waits for the disasters to happen before they do owt p unlike other countries pn
Can recall when village did use to flood donkey's years ago but all been rectified now!
govt could look into providing better flood defences instead of spending money on rubbish things
The government need to wake up and stop burying their head in the sand about climate change. I don't think they put any importance on listening to people.
very concerned as eairlines are the biggest polluters of all and I think they should be cut down
prevention goes on endlessly difficult to say how much can be done as it all hinges on money
severely flooded in 1947 in the old priory road in gloucester.
member of local flood forum.In contact with local mp Richard Graham (con) who offered great support last winter. Met David Cameron and offered him some advice about building on flood plains.
My answers were coloured by my age,retirement and money expectations.
In 2010 I wrote a letter to David Cameron, head of derbyshire constabulary and my local mp in response to the floodings in 2010 in chesterfield and forming a national organisation of volunteers in line with the US Citizen Core principals that is we have a number of TA units that already have the equipment and premises radios and other skills, there are people who leave the TA as they are no longer interested and the concept being that 2014 (this was all in a letter in foresight not in a response) that we could create local, regional and national volunteer responses for such circumstances such as the floods/BUT NONE OF THE ABOVE PEOPLE WERE INTERESTED/I got a response back from david camerons office saying I have written to the wrong department//
our village once lost its water for 3 weeks and people were queuing up at my well to collect water.
I think flooding is mainly due to over-development. So much concrete there is nowhere for water to go.
there were three questions which I thought were 'pie in the sky' and quite ridiculous. These were about nations having equal wealth, government providing all basic needs , etc. I do not see what you are measuring here.
There should be more barriers or river dredging to avoid flooding. We should stop building on flood plains. New developments in villages need to be provided with adequate drainages facilities.Builders should be more regulated.
yeh i think theres alot of panic given out by so called experts, alot of it has not been proven, thats the way i look at it, cut down in the air,there is more carbon emissions that come of trees than traffic
don't build houses on flood plains/if they dredge rivers and streams/they don't clean drains like they use too/ building powerstations needs to be done because they have left it too late//
need more investment, should do more with improving economy
My answers based on my belief Climate Change is not real its just way Nature is!!
the climate change is a natural event and not man made.
every discussion about climate change highlights the total confusion about the subject and that rational discussion rarely happens in the media
the community spirit really comes to fore on these occasions it really is quite surprizing people you dont really know step forward especially in the rural areas which is where i have come from.
1947 had local flooding, only one house affected. better management of ground water needed to prevent flooding.
government need to invest more in the waterways
no other than i see the flooding as somthing where you have to be practicale and just get on and deal with it/-
being realistic , i dont think the situation is likely to improve because of financial constraints /-
we had a meeting with the local authorities - river board / servern trent water / tewkesbury borough council and it was a waste of time because it was clear they were not going to do anything / prior to that we had the effect of a flood to the road, i had to break into the pump room at the end of our road to prevent the road from flooding due to a powercut. i re-set 2 switches and the road cleared immediately / at the meeting they refused to give me a key to enter the pumproom if it happened again, so i told them i would need to take the same action again if a repeat flood occured [ respondent lives in the road adjacent to the river severn /-
climate change over hyped. control of world population would be the most effective to reduce the problem,
we need more information to make a proper decision on climate change//
i think by focusing on flooding in last 12 months misse out on things affecting other parts of the country/eg we had a very heavy thunder storm for an hours duration but was enough to flood local areain 2012//
since the flood we have had no feed back at all from the local coucil etc
all money oritated saving money. no adequet flood defenses. still chopping amazon rain forrest down. bye new gas boilers.
I've been lucky because villages next to us have been very badly affected. One had to be evacuated in 2007.
If I were still at work, I would probably be affected by travel, but as things stand we are not badly affected in this part of the village.
feel the government spend too much time arguing and deliberating rather than doing (all governments not just the present one)/very concerned about ebola
Bu bron i mi wrthod gan nad oedd yr holiadur yn Gymraeg
ni just that it is a worry and we should all be aware of it,especially the government//
thinks need to be done now. money into defences of flooding
the questions are in some ways vague and there must a reason for that
its going to get worse in general the waters rising every year
not relevant to me had not had flooding experience//
We need to let people of this country what is to come re. global warming, and educate them.
to increase public awareness/of flooding and the environment generally//
No - except the flooding was dealt with very well by the Environment Agency.//
When I said there was one event we were disrupted by it was the 2007 Gloucestershire floods.//
theres a lot of head in the sand behviour form vested interessts concnernign buliding and not upsetting the status quo.
it hasn't affected us at all but we feel for thos who have been affected. It obviously hap[penign more and more.
when people respect nature these things won't happen.
it was a storm wich included flooding. it was a major dramatic event which changed lives for months, still is changign ours. the beautiful builidings were jus tfalling int ot eh sea. Teh bulidnig has been put back rather than put an ugly new building there. Everyone came out to clean the seafront, it has been very major round here. a lot of lost value on property which is importnat if you want somewhere else. I still feel lucky, blessed I'm still alive and I am able to have my son to stay. the work they are doing on rhe coast should stop it happening again. I'm thrilled they are tryignt o keep Borth alive as I've heard there are other place son teh coast where they will have to let them be swamped. It's a natural thing. coasts deteriorate. difficult for thos who thought they were safe.
I think flooding is down to them building on flod plains, when you take in to account where all the buliding has gone on. also failure to dregre rivers.
my personal experience was limited becaus eof where i live. It wasnt the last one it was the one a year and and a half ago. i know people whose houses were totally destroyed, even people had to run for it. Im astonished that local authorities have allowed building on the flood plain. They cant build on it, its, you know, senseless... Doctor surgery totally flooded but it was put in a plac\e that never made any sense. a flood waiting to happen.
well, i wish more people were involved and concerned about it all....
its just so sad, people who were flooded, cannot sell their properties
my concern for climate chang are more for the developing countries.
i dont think the government does enough to help those who get flooded/compensate them very much//
this area is not prone to flooding only on the coast/rivers should be dredged more often
climate change is a natural process, that heats up and cools down every few thousand years
none , a lot of whats relevant wont affect me
i think its a very important issue beccause of the coastal nature of britain - essential to the geography of britain - only holland should worry more - its going to cost so much money - there are many difficult deciswons - people lose their houses
technology and private sector are greatest ope tp solve the climate change problems
here we have no experience of flooding/because it hasn;t affected us we are very sympatheitic to those it has affectected/
no because it hasn/t affected this area very much
i think it is wrong for govts and councils and whoever gives planing permission for houses and business to be erected on flood plains
just thank you for stopping my ironing for half an hour
not really i think most of this global warming and being green things is all a big con, its an excuse to make more moeny out of people, i dont anything mankind is going to be able to do is going to make alot of difference
my view is that the weather pattens change over a long period of time/it has happened before and will happen again.
flooding in july the sense of community was amazing/ students fundraising/sense of community was amazing.
they shouldn't build houses in areas that are bound to flood like they have built here in Aberystwyth
the trouble is that a lot of the questions require a yes or no answer which is the common trend with these surveys//
the goverment needs too look at the amount of new houses being built and wher4e
2007 floooding caused severe disruption no water supply for 2 weeks
in 2007 had to cross fields to reach the road
source of flooding is the groundwater coming off the hills and diverted under the sharpness canal nothing is being done about this. Merely the flood defence on the river bank being improved.
2007 flood entered the house to a depth of 8 inches. It took 8 months to get back to normal.
further analysis will have to be done over the years to find out about climate change/the thames froze centuries ago so we have to take the past into account far more
i don;t think scientists know enough to link any of it to climate change
the road network is incapable of coping with too much rain and then there are blockages/lack of willingness to improve transport system
gordon brown did not get credit in 2007 because of lack of water due to flooding
NEVER EXPERIENCED FLOODING SO HAS NOT HAD AS MUCH OF AN EMOTIONAL IMPACT ON MY LIFE.
I think it is a bit wrong to assume that not being green is ruining the climate because of the lack of evidence that cliamte change is happening due to man-made reasons.//
Yes - I think too much time and energy and words are spent on arguing about climate change and flooding and not enough is spent on doing sensible things like dredging rivers and keeping good housekeeping - not building on floodplains - looking after the countryside and listening to locals.//
if we keep assking people about flooding the are going to think that it is more of an issue than it should be,when there are mpoe important things; and people should be hjelping themselves more
why are they building germany beck in fulford yo10? it is madness with regards to flooding
i have a arespomsibility, but i think vthat the government has a greater responsibiity to take long term strategic views
goverment need to do more investments and manage with climate change better and educate people
Climate change is partly man made and partly natural/In dia is growing as a lesser rate/ The long term gowth of the UK is 2% which means the UK doubles its economy every thirty five years (every generation) and compare that with china which is doubling every seven and a half years/ India is doubling every ten years/ Its clear that that the main driver of man made climate change is economic growth in China, India and the BRICs generally - (Brazil, Russia. India and China)//
The local government shold be empowered and subsidised to implement eefective flooding and flooding protection measures.
The participant believes that god has a plan for the climate and for everyone. It is not a man made cause or the climate. Its all in god's hand.
awareness needs to be raised prevention is always better than cure / relies on our leaders as to the possibilities in the next 100 years / economic issues could prevent flood prevention
there should be more warnings to the public
flooding ha got worse since barges stopped using river and the necessary dredging. Many new roads built increasing run-off.Raised roads rarely built on stilts and act as dams.
projects in hand to stop future flooding.2017-2018 houses will be put on to main sewer.
questions are biased - there's an implicit assumption that climate change is happening
im not aware of this area being a flood prone area/for a start we are in the driest part of the uk/its not as though we are norfolk - 1947 - when it flooded - we are high up/there was flooding of the garage while i was not there but it did not enter the house
I think I would do things on a local level to help with flood risk /
if we can do anything to prevent it/ any help we can give to old people especially//
i would have liked more opportunity to comment on my disgust for the current government especially cameron and osbourne - i think they want to take us back to victorian times
planning legislation has to be looked at in connection with building on flood plains
some questions are of debatable quality and not sufficiently specific as regards areas
not matter what we do as individuals climate change is going to happen
england needs to wake up and become community organised, get rid of the alcohol and be community//
i think its overpopulation that is causing the floods - they are constantly building houses and it causes floods
I just wish it was a fairer world was all, and the the polititions did what they pledged to do
I think it's very encouraging that people are asking people what they think about all this. It's the first time I've been asked.//
Can we say that I work a great deal with flood- and fire-damaged properties which affect the answers I've given.//
Quite a few years ago I submitted ideas about putting a breakwater to the MP and protecting the coastline and I get the impression my views are not listened to.//
should be easier for the public to buy into green deals
communities and goverment should work together
something should be done about the somerset levels because it is an area that floods. also cowley bridge, something should be done about that because it affects the trainline which I use to visit family in Derbyshire//
BACK IN ABOUT 1983 I SAW A NEWS REPORT THAT THE cobra (EMERGENCY)COMMITTEE HAD JUST MET AND A SPOKESPERSON ANNOUNCED THAT CLIMATE CHANGE WOULD HASVE CATASTRPHIC CONSEQUENCE UPON THE UK .i WAS VERY INTERESTED IN THIS STORY BUT WHEN I WATCHED THE NEXT NEWS REPORT THERE WAS NO MENTION OF IT WHICH MAKES ME BELIEVE THAT THERE IS CENSORSHIP ABOUT THESE ISSUES IN THIS COUNTRY.
it seems a long time since last winters floods to be asking detailed questions about them.
i would like the government to do a bit more for people
LOCAL NEWSLETTERS WOULD BE VALUABLE MAYBE mp,s COULD TAKE A LEAD IN THIS
i feel that a lot of the flooding is caused by inappropriate building/development
1997 policy of waterways management by EA stopped dredging rivers is the problem.
we need to invest in flood defences and reduce carbon it MUST be done, not delayed or put off.
people are ignorant of the causes of cilmate change and it's probably due to meterological cycle but humans are doing things to the environment
on the flood plain floods are reletively common
my experiences of flooding in the last 4 yrs since ive lived here - the floods last yr were due to the river rising / the previous flood was caused by a flash flood - water running down the hill which resulted in flooding because the pumps were not activated - so that is the cause of poor planning/decision making by the relevant authorities - however - BOTH these events would have happened WITHOUT climate change /-
why is so much emphisis on the flooding that occured last winter without referring to previous flooding incidents ? grants were available for people who were flooded previously and there appears to be too much emphasis on the last occurence as opposed to the whole problem/ in this village people are also flooded by surface water not just the river, yet only people who are flooded by the river are entitled to access the money [grants] to take avaoiding mesures for the future risk of flooding /-
during thatchers time in the 1980's apparently she and her government decided to open up and clear the fileds of ditches - as a result of the ditches no longer sitting in farmers fields a lot of the problems [not all of them] stem from that/ culverts sealed off - there are a lot of things have happened in the last 30 years that need to be undone, yet alone developing new systems/ flood defences for some towns appear to force excess water into other areas - if you live in a low populated area things can be made worse for you as a result - its not just about looking after the large populations, houses that have been flooded in the past , across the country, are now easy to sell and that is an issue/-
there are 2 aspects to flooding which affect us here , the river and flash flooding -back in 2007 the lane was under 12 feet of water - many of the homes were severely flooded back in 2007, the provision of proper drainage would significantly improve the likelihood of this happening again /-