Bad weather and flooding

[Pat]

Having seen a bit of flooding etc over the past few days I cant help but think it would not have been anywhere near as bad if the councils did 2 things.

1. Maintain the roads properly. There is too much standing water on the roads because the council do a shoddy job at repairing a resurfacing meaning it doesn't drain properly.
2. Clean the drains once in a while. Most of the flooding was because the water couldn't get down the drains nit just the volume of it. OK I know that some was due to rivers bursting their banks etc but a good proportion of it round Sussex was nowhere near a river.

While we are on the topic, the number of people complaining that the electricity companies were slow to fix the supplies. Don't they realise when this has happened before they called in engineers from Ireland and France to help but both those countries got stuffed by the storms too so were a bit too busy to send any spare engineers over.

I've often wondered if points 1 & 2 are interlinked these days.


Road repairs on the whole now seem to consist of spraying bitumen onto the road surface and then dumping loads of gravel onto it in the hope some sticks. However, all the excess gravel ends up in the gutters and from there it makes it's way into the drains. Probably helping to clog them up?