Blimy, It's Wet in southen England!

[JackLuis]

Three people killed as storms continue to batter southern UK

As the American east digs out of the third major storm, the UK is having it's own problems.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/15/1392472781006/Newhaven-lighthouse-is-ba-009.jpg​

 

[D_K_Moon]

It's as dry as a popcorn fart in southern Nevada.

 

[Handley_Page]

Yes; we got wet; very wet. This is apparently the wettest winter in 250 years.
This is one of the reasons why: HERE.

For the benefit of those who need it, that little patch of green/blue to the east is the UK. Those are three storms ganging up to land on us like aircraft on the runway.

 

[JagFarlane]

Yeah one of those storms is the one that just dumped 2ft of snow on much of the Eastern seaboard. Hope you and yours come out of the storms well.

 

[MrFoxwood]

So my mother has informed me. I often take great delight in telling her how it never floods here, below sea-level. And I couldn't help smiling when she told me about the apparent decision to import Dutch specialists to deal with the current situation. I hope to god their advice is: 'pile up all the earth around the outside of the country.'

 

[3113]

Could you export some of that rain here to California? We're kinda in the worst draught in years....

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And the audience chimes in...


How wet is she?

 

[DeYaKen]

If You've got a long enough pipe

Could you export some of that rain here to California? We're kinda in the worst draught in years....

You'd be very welcome to it. We are already trying to pump it out to sea. Some parts have been underwater since December.

A great quote from a man whose beach hut was destroyed.

"I bought a new lock for it. I packed it full of marine grease. I'm sure it still works. If only I could find the door and lock it was attached to."

 

[Handley_Page]

Could you export some of that rain here to California? We're kinda in the worst draught in years....

Gladly. Better yet come & collect whatever you need; for FREE.
There's a herd of cows not far from me that have got Very Wet Feet and not a hope of finding higher ground to dry out.

 

[patientlee]

Sounds like Ogg's Christmas story. Stay safe!

 

[redzinger]

This is the weirdest one, from near where I grew up.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-26185361
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-weather-borth-bog-fire-3143970

The whole country is sopping, and a bog catches fire?
Never saw it like that the whole time when I was young, even in the driest summers, yet it happens now? Nature is weird.

In the last few weeks, this same area has been flooded and had 100+mph gales hit. They're expecting pestilence next.

 

[johneb87]

To all my UK Lit friends, do be safe.

 

[Handley_Page]

To all my UK Lit friends, do be safe.

We'll try; really hard, but Mother Nature is a doughty opponent.

If I could find a way of getting some of my pictures of local flooded fields, I'd put them up.

 

[oggbashan]

Sounds like Ogg's Christmas story. Stay safe!

I must have had a premonition...

Or I annoyed the weather gods.

 

[patientlee]

I must have had a premonition...

Or I annoyed the weather gods.

Well, you did win the contest at their expense. Did you share your winnings with the weather gods?

 

[StrangeLife]

The entire German war-machine couldn't subdue the UK and despite massive pressure from the rest of the EU the Brits still maintain their own currency and keep driving in the wrong side of the road.

I'm confident that it'll take more than a little excess moisture to shake them beyond "bloody nuisance"-level ...

 

[oggbashan]

Well, you did win the contest at their expense. Did you share your winnings with the weather gods?

No. But I had been annoying my local City Hall over the last few years, urging them to update their Flood Emergency Plan produced after the 2000 floods.

They didn't take kindly to being harangued about flooding during a drought.

But their response this time has been far better than it was in 2000.

Back to my other perpetual moan - public toilets. They will be shutting two after April 1. One will be demolished during redevelopment, and the other is so rarely used that they have calculated it costs the local taxpayers £20 every time it is used. [It doesn't of course. It costs them several thousand pounds a year and they divide that by the number of users. It will still cost them the same amount if no one used it, and slightly more for extra consumables if thousands used it.]

But they are still going to keep open and maintain more public toilets than any neighbouring authority. They have included that cost into their budget for the next four years, because 'the public' [= Og and his associates] demand it.

One of the public toilet blocks is temporarily closed. I'm not surprised. There's four feet of floodwater inside.

 

[Handley_Page]

The entire German war-machine couldn't subdue the UK and despite massive pressure from the rest of the EU the Brits still maintain their own currency and keep driving in the wrong side of the road.

I'm confident that it'll take more than a little excess moisture to shake them beyond "bloody nuisance"-level ...

Yes, we are kinda unique, I guess. Personally, I think we should not have 'gone decimal' in 1971, and I'll resist EU pressure until the Good Lord takes me.
But we drive on the correct side of the road. It's all down to how our carriage drivers placed their swords.
And we are just about at the "Bloody Nuisance" level about now.

 

[oggbashan]

Yes, we are kinda unique, I guess. Personally, I think we should not have 'gone decimal' in 1971, and I'll resist EU pressure until the Good Lord takes me.
But we drive on the correct side of the road. It's all down to how our carriage drivers placed their swords.

And we are just about at the "Bloody Nuisance" level about now.

We decided on the gauge of railway lines on the width between the wheels of our carts. Why were our cart wheels 4 feet 8.5 inches apart? Because they had to fit the ruts left by the Romans in their roads.

But that might be a myth. Recorded ruts in pre-historic trackways long before the Romans were usually 4 feet 8.5 inches apart for load bearing carts. Why?

Because it was traditional, of course.

 

[StrangeLife]

Because they had to fit the ruts left by the Romans in their roads...

Go ahead - blame the Romans...

 

[matriarch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26214721

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26170904


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26170904

 

[Handley_Page]

Footnote:
In case some readers cannot quite get a grasp on the metric system of measurements (a curse on Napoleon), just remember that one inch (imperial; just don't ask me if it's different in the 'States) is 25.4mm or 304mm to the foot.
Bear in mind that this water is falling on many square miles of land !.

 

[DeYaKen]

If you are looking for an idea as to how the bits are taking it, this might give you an idea.

http://dailyhawk.co.uk/2014/02/14/african-union-we-cannot-ignore-the-plight-of-berkshire-any-longer/

Remember we love our irony.

 

[Handley_Page]

If you are looking for an idea as to how the bits are taking it, this might give you an idea.

http://dailyhawk.co.uk/2014/02/14/african-union-we-cannot-ignore-the-plight-of-berkshire-any-longer/

Remember we love our irony.

Remember all the collections to help out in Somalia and other poor places with a few of their own problems ? The British Red Cross (a very worthy organisation), has been acting as the focus of collections.

So the scene is a British family hanging out of the upstairs windows when along comes a little boat with 'British Red Cross' on the side.
"Have you come to help us?" says the householder.
"No", comes the reply, "We're collecting for Syrian refugees."