Monday, January 22nd, 2018

‘Does Hull have a future?’ City built on a flood plain faces sea rise reckoning

Author: Stephen Walsh
Source: The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date: Wed 3 Jan 2018
Link: ‘Does Hull have a future?’ City built on a flood plain faces sea rise reckoning

Stephan: Another city is beginning to realize what climate change means. This is such a tragedy but, I am afraid, we are going to see more and more of these stories. It is hard to understand why people can not seem to grasp what is in front of their eyes, but the data that they don't cannot be denied. Hull, thankfully, has figured out they have to work with the earth's now disturbed meta-systems, not try to dominate them. It will be very interesting to watch how this story plays out.

City of Hull in the United Kingdom

Allan Fellowes had a rude awakening the day Hull flooded.

“It was raining very heavily,” he says of the previous night. “I woke up the next morning and I was looking at the ceiling and there were refraction marks on it. I noticed that the couch I’d fallen asleep on was moving a bit unusually. And I actually fell into [the water].

“I went out into the street and there were so many things happening. I was thinking: my God, what’s happened? Have I woken up yet? There were people going down the street in canoes.”

What had happened was the wettest day in one of the wettest months on record. On 25 June 2007, a depression moving slowly across the UK brought sustained heavy rain to Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the Midlands. Around 100mm fell on Hull: a month’s worth in a day.

At Kingswood in the north of the city, the Yorkshire Water pumping station failed; water […]

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