Severe weather warning for Cleethorpes area

“Why oh why!!!!! Are the council workers out cutting grass in this weather !!????? Surely the manpower would be better used to clear drains on these days!!!!! Its not as if it's grass cutting weather is it!!!! But then again we do live in n e lincs where the councilors are idiots!!!!”

“high_maint. First sensible comment I've read. Absolutely spot on.”

“@Maphead
It's not the salt that blocks the drains up, the salt just dissolves in water. It's the rest of the rubbish that gets flushed down that blocks everything up.”

“Drains are only designed to a certain standard. When there is exceptional rainfall on an already saturated catchment, they can't cope. No amount of gully sucking is going to make more space for the water. The drains need replacing but that's not going to happen, so take care and perhaps don't drive through flood water if the bow waves are going to flood someones house!”

“The drains are not cleaned out often enough, plain and simple. All the salt that is put down over the winter period, where does it go - gets washed down the drains, are they cleared out - no.
Everywhere in town floods. I have never seen any drains getting pumped out or cleared. Maybe Im not in the right places, but I havent seen it happen.

If the council are prepared for all this rain today and tomorrow, how come the havent cleared the drains ready?
Maybe their prepared by sitting by the phone waiting to answer the hundreds of calls their going to get!!
I await the statement next week when the town has flooded beyond belief - We will learn from this.
Council tax not being put to good enough use Im thinking???”

“At 0830 Grimsby Road, Humberston (outside Pizza Uno) was almost impassable. This is a site that has had major flooding problems for years but nothing has been resolved.

@Smoker - Also flooded sections at Love Lane Corner, Weelsby Road at Ladysmith Road lights and at Peaks Parkway junction. What do all these have in common? They have all be re-built and resurfaced since 2007 and so there should be absolutely no reason for the drains to be blocked / inadequate.

I don't think these are gully cleaning matters rather they are failures of drainage systems.

I have had an extension built recently and the work has to be passed by the council's Building Inspector. Do the council enforce their road contractors in such a manner?”

“To anybody who is on holiday in cleethorpes. Its just the middle of the rainy season it lasts from april to october, then it snows !”

“Welcome to the uk...we may aswell just have the 3 seasons”

“the council don't do too bad a job with keeping the gullies clean, but shouldn't anglian water bare some responsibility with keeping the sewers unblocked? seems they're getting off scot free.”

“I cannot understand why the residents of WEST STREET,Cleethorpes are not demanding that the Council clean out the 8 or so gullies along the street.Virtually everyone is full to the top of the cast iron grating with years of compacted dirt.Only yesterday afternoon the road was almost half awash on the even numbered side of the street at the Mill Rd end.The gutters themselves are full of road dressing chippings from last years abortion of a so called re surfacing when they actually allowed a car to remain in situ whilst they surfaced around it.
Lethargic residents,lethargic incompetent Council.A flood waiting to happen.”