Pauline von Hellermann

#ClimateDiary Another fascinating piece on the lived reality of climate change and flooding. Two key points

1. Government infrastructure intervevtions, Here: millions on flood barriers which are ultimately not enough, but not yet nature based solutions helping prevent high floods

2. Individuals trying to to protect their houses. Buxton (following advice of “Flood Mary”) moving boiler and plugs upstairs, installing three pumps.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/27/we-cant-engineer-our-way-out-of-this-how-to-protect-flood-hit-severn-valley?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

‘We can’t engineer our way out of this’: how to protect flood-hit Severn Valley

Tens of millions have been spent on human-made defences over the years, but the impact of the climate crisis means flooding is inevitable

The Guardian
Jan 27, 2024 at 9:11amWeb
Show threadPauline von HellermannJan 27, 2024

#ClimateDiary Here the Flood Mary website, which is indeed full of good advice - and really quite interesting as a phenomenon itself (at least to me as an anthropologist 😊)

#FloodMary #Flood #Flooding #FloodResilience #ClimateAdaption

https://floodmary.com/

Show threadSellaTheChemistJan 27, 2024
@pvonhellermannn Very cool, Pauline. Thank you.
Show threaddimple452Jan 27, 2024
@pvonhellermannn
There are working flood protection devices as long as
* the flood is not too strong
* there is no hole along the protection device.
Picture of Danube flooding (luckily this was maximum water height)