On Saturday 28 December 2013 08:16 wrote in uk.d-i-y:

There's a chap on the news at the moment who lives in a house-
on-stilts (garage and entrance stairway on ground floor, living
accommodation upstairs) and is complaining that all the stuff
he had in his garage was flooded and ruined and demands better
flood defences.

Err... the flood defences were building your your b****y house
with the accommodation up above flood level.

Duhhh... That is indeed the pattern around here for new builds.
Seems reasonable too given it is a) easy to relocate a car; b) the losses
are limited unless you operate a machine shop in your garage.

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