Flood Alerts Sheffield Autumn 2019

[ECCOnoob]

35 minutes ago, Sheffteach said:

Those stranded at Meadowhall (including a friend) have complained at the lack of blankets/refreshments - they had to buy their own apparently. Look North have have just reported that Meadowhall have refused an interview or to issue a statement today. Disgusting really, about time we all voted with our feet. 

I'm not sure I understand what's disgusting. Meadowhall are not a hotel they are not a homeless shelter or the red cross or the national health service.  They don't own nor control any of the stock or supplies in which to give out to people.

 

The flooding is not the fault of meadowhall it's a natural occurrence from extreme weather conditions.  It caught everyone off guard including the centre.

 

The police were the ones who forced people back inside until it was safe for them to leave.  Meadowhall reacted as best they could.

 

Im sure it is inconvenient that people may have had to buy food or a few basic supplies but that's just part of life.   It was just as inconvenient for those of us whose bus routes and tram routes suddenly stopped running and were supposed to find spend money on alternative ways home or for those of us who had to find and pay for alternative accommodation because we couldn't get home.

 

I really don't get what voting with your feet will achieve as it's completely against the wrong target.

Edited November 8, 2019 by ECCOnoob

[sedith]

1 hour ago, ECCOnoob said:

I'm not sure I understand what's disgusting. Meadowhall are not a hotel they are not a homeless shelter or the red cross or the national health service.  They don't own nor control any of the stock or supplies in which to give out to people.

 

The flooding is not the fault of meadowhall it's a natural occurrence from extreme weather conditions.  It caught everyone off guard including the centre.

 

The police were the ones who forced people back inside until it was safe for them to leave.  Meadowhall reacted as best they could.

 

Im sure it is inconvenient that people may have had to buy food or a few basic supplies but that's just part of life.   It was just as inconvenient for those of us whose bus routes and tram routes suddenly stopped running and were supposed to find spend money on alternative ways home or for those of us who had to find and pay for alternative accommodation because we couldn't get home.

 

I really don't get what voting with your feet will achieve as it's completely against the wrong target.

Excellent post, I agree entirely.

 

Meadowhall were quite within their rights to close the doors at the proper time and ask the customers to leave?

 

The staff stayed on and catered for the people who were there. Everything incurs  a cost, nothing is free.

 

 

[Daven]

1 minute ago, sedith said:

Excellent post, I agree entirely.

 

Meadowhall were quite within their rights to close the doors at the proper time and ask the customers to leave?

 

The staff stayed on and catered for the people who were there. Everything incurs  a cost, nothing is free.

 

 

I agree entirely.

Who in their right mind would go to a place that has flooded before when there is an amber flood alert in place ? 🙄

[neeeeeeeeeek]

I don't think meadowhall expected it to get that bad last night which still leaves them no excuse for sending out a press release at 9am this morning to say they were open as usual. I came off at j34  gone ten this morning and it was blocked by policeso encouraging people to try and get there was ridiculous! 

[ECCOnoob]

12 minutes ago, neeeeeeeeeek said:

I don't think meadowhall expected it to get that bad last night which still leaves them no excuse for sending out a press release at 9am this morning to say they were open as usual. I came off at j34  gone ten this morning and it was blocked by policeso encouraging people to try and get there was ridiculous! 

But they were open as usual.   They were perfectly entitled to send out such message. 

 

Just because some parts of the area are still flooded and have problems does not mean all is.    I had to get back to work as usual this morning and so did many others.

 

 

[trainwalker]

Since Meadowhall was sold off and purchased by British Land things have altered a lot in how Meadowhall is run. The Original owners were passionate about Meadowhall and it showed in Everything they did. I’m certain that the old regime would not have dealt with things how they were dealt with yesterday.  Meadowhall is just another piece of the British Land portfolio. 

[JJJones]

I was inside the Meadowhall management suite at 10:30am on Thursday morning,  the desk staff were getting phone calls from people asking if the days events had been called off, even tho they couldn't give an answer you could tell that they were certain it would be called off but didn't have authority to make the call, but told callers that a decision was due to be made and when it was, the website would be updated immediately.  

 

The weather forecast for the next 12hrs or so was very heavy rain.

 

I'm sorry but why did it take until 6pm to actually decide to call off event, it never stopped raining all day.

 

I agree that it was bad judgment to travel to Meadowhall in such bad conditions, but with how bad the situation was so early, it was obvious that calling it off was the only safe option. 

Edited November 9, 2019 by JJJones

[Mrspittthree]

I work in Sheffield city centre, our senior facility manager in London was monitoring the situation and due to the transport routes being affected from mid afternoon they made the decision to send staff home early, So out of their duty of care to workers.

 

Didnt Meadowhall see that even if the Christmas light “switch on” had gone ahead how would their customers have got home, also where was their duty to their staff getting home ? It looks non existent to me.

 

Peoples safety should have been a priority, I bet most of the shoppers that day were totally unaware what was unfolding outside, I was in Sheffield city centre and until the emails landed from senior management (about 2pm) saying the situation was worsening and transport options were starting to drop off, I was unaware how bad it was in the streets below. 
 

I have a feeling most larger business in Sheffield are connected to the “major incident group” so they receive consistent communications from the emergency services, I find it hard to believe Meadowhall was not part of this.

 

Yes Meadowhall was totally entitled to keep its doors open if the building was deemed safe, but it definitely didn’t show a duty of care to its customers on the 7th November. 

[Mrspittthree]

12 hours ago, ECCOnoob said:

I'm not sure I understand what's disgusting. Meadowhall are not a hotel they are not a homeless shelter or the red cross or the national health service.  They don't own nor control any of the stock or supplies in which to give out to people.

 

The flooding is not the fault of meadowhall it's a natural occurrence from extreme weather conditions.  It caught everyone off guard including the centre.

 

The police were the ones who forced people back inside until it was safe for them to leave.  Meadowhall reacted as best they could.

 

Im sure it is inconvenient that people may have had to buy food or a few basic supplies but that's just part of life.   It was just as inconvenient for those of us whose bus routes and tram routes suddenly stopped running and were supposed to find spend money on alternative ways home or for those of us who had to find and pay for alternative accommodation because we couldn't get home.

 

I really don't get what voting with your feet will achieve as it's completely against the wrong target.

Meadowhall showed zero duty of care to its customers, I would have been really ****** off if I had been stranded at Meadowhall that day, did they send out regular messages on the tannoy saying transport/roads were being affected?? I will vote with my feet as I’m sure others will 

[steved32]

Meadowhall brashly symbolises all that is rotten about our materialistic society.  It hung on planning to go ahead with the light show for one reason only.... ££££££.

 

Awful place.