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Thanks Tango. But.TANGODANCER wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:30 pmThere you go.....straight from the horses mouth, so to speak...Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:41 pmWho decided to call the current storm 'Gareth'? It's a ridiculous name. All the Gareths I know are good at art, read The Guardian, that sort of thing.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-storm-names
I note they still fail to qualify exactly why they are named. That is how they are actually selected from the available 10000.
As Bruce says, Gareth hardly epitomises Storm.
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I've only ever seen a very short queue for the Raasay ferry...if you can call 3 vehicles a queueLost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:39 pm
You want to try getting to Raasay in a hurry. Or there on any Sunday...
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Back in the day you could only get three on.Abdoulaye's Twin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:06 pmI've only ever seen a very short queue for the Raasay ferry...if you can call 3 vehicles a queueLost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:39 pm
You want to try getting to Raasay in a hurry. Or there on any Sunday...
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Probably why there is never a 4thLost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:09 pmBack in the day you could only get three on.Abdoulaye's Twin wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:06 pmI've only ever seen a very short queue for the Raasay ferry...if you can call 3 vehicles a queueLost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:39 pm
You want to try getting to Raasay in a hurry. Or there on any Sunday...
I can go months without leaving my village, so I'm not really up on what's going on elsewhere
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Hands behind back, flex knees...Going to b e a warm night tonight officer.....
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Is Whaley Bridge anywhere near you, Spotto?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-d ... e-49189955
Is Whaley Bridge anywhere near you, Spotto?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-d ... e-49189955
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Walsden, where I lived for a couple of years, usually gets it bad with flooding. Fingers crossed for them.
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Thankfully not.Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 3:17 pmBlimey Charlie
Is Whaley Bridge anywhere near you, Spotto?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-d ... e-49189955
River Derwent is a raging brown mass, but nowhere near top flooding levels.
It has been scarily pissing down absolute sheets of rain/hail in the last hour again round here though. My house's safe - it sits well up a cliff edge.
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Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 3:17 pmBlimey Charlie
Is Whaley Bridge anywhere near you, Spotto?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-d ... e-49189955
That looks potentially catastrophic!
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Was that where the reservoir breached above it, Tango? Or was that Hebden Bridge? Does usually cop for a lot of water over there.TANGODANCER wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 3:35 pmWalsden, where I lived for a couple of years, usually gets it bad with flooding. Fingers crossed for them.
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As you probably know Bruce the Calder Valley cops it regularly and Waslden, Todmorden and Hebden Bridge are like Bolton, Farnworth and Horwich for nearness. Walsden got flooded in March this year and regularly gets it, sometimes badly.Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 4:19 pmWas that where the reservoir breached above it, Tango? Or was that Hebden Bridge? Does usually cop for a lot of water over there.TANGODANCER wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 3:35 pmWalsden, where I lived for a couple of years, usually gets it bad with flooding. Fingers crossed for them.
https://www.newsflare.com/video/283642/ ... march-2019
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They're putting sandbags on top of a disintegrating dam!
Sandfxckkingbags!!! There's a million tons of water rushing over it you tits. (Civil Engineering brought to you by Future Ventures).
Sandfxckkingbags!!! There's a million tons of water rushing over it you tits. (Civil Engineering brought to you by Future Ventures).
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You are joking? You fecking must be!Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:58 pmThey're putting sandbags on top of a disintegrating dam!
Sandfxckkingbags!!! There's a million tons of water rushing over it you tits. (Civil Engineering brought to you by Future Ventures).
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I'm not. Aerial footage showing them stacking sandbags on top...Bruce Rioja wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 8:15 pmYou are joking? You fecking must be!Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:58 pmThey're putting sandbags on top of a disintegrating dam!
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To continue the "wrongness" of the approach, I read the headline "RAF drafted in as Derbyshire dam wall on brink of collapse" - That just conjured up a mental picture of them hitting it with bouncing bombs...
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Here comes the rain. I'm about twenty-five minutes south of Whalley Bridge as the cloud flies. Heavens have just opened. I reckon their 3m cleared will be down to 2m cleared soon...
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...wow, fxcking hell! Lightning and thunder everywhere, daylight has turned deepest grey, shot through with electric blue...
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I'm still following the Whaley Bridge dam story and have two observations, neither to do with the weather, but both to do with Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Swann, spokeswoman to the media and grim faced chair of the Local Resilience Forum.
1. What the fxck! How the hell did you spectacularly make a hairstyle look like you've been dragged through a dam backwards...
2. I note her plea for the residents who didn't return through the police barriers was merely that, a plea. It has no force of law, they can stay in their own homes if they want. You don't have to send anybody in to check on them, or provide them with anything. Equally if the dam does burst then that was their decision, if they die they die.
1. What the fxck! How the hell did you spectacularly make a hairstyle look like you've been dragged through a dam backwards...
2. I note her plea for the residents who didn't return through the police barriers was merely that, a plea. It has no force of law, they can stay in their own homes if they want. You don't have to send anybody in to check on them, or provide them with anything. Equally if the dam does burst then that was their decision, if they die they die.
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Raining stairrods and our electric supply fxcking goes. Can't see fxck all inside because it's too dark, can't go outside because it's chucking water and lightning about like nobody's business. Fxcking weather!
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Lost Leopard Spot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 5:22 pmRaining stairrods and our electric supply fxcking goes. Can't see fxck all inside because it's too dark, can't go outside because it's chucking water and lightning about like nobody's business. Fxcking weather!
Not just you Spotty! Much of London and the South East, plus areas further North. It'll no doubt reach Horwich and the Coventry game will be off!
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