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[Lost Leopard Spot]

We should have learned from them pesky dinosaurs driving round in their 4x4's and the like!

When will we learn ay?

And the relevence of this is what?
Dinosaurs existed and were the dominant lifeforce for millions of years... We've been around as prime species for about 10,000 years. If dinosaurs had 4x4s pal they would have died off well before any genes that gave you your very limited intelligence could have possibly developed.

Its was a fecking joke. No need to be a prick and fire insults. No wonder this board has such a small group of devoted posters. Lighten up.

Sorry.
You are in many ways an astute observer.
I did not see it as a joke- this was wrong for two reasons, first of all for having a sense of humour failure and secondly for then insulting you. I apologise unreservedly.
In mitigation, one is sometimes driven into that sort of 'defensive' attitude by the utter unrelenting assaults that one has to put up with on here, sometimes

[bobo the clown]

Interesting .... Helicopter film of the Thames and the area around Staines showing the flooding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-Yd-6QsvE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The final bit, at Thorpe, looks like there's a new Ox-Bow lake on the way.


I like how threads can link up sometimes !!

[Hoboh]

I found this very interesting

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... cies-homes" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I found this very interesting

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... cies-homes" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I agree. That is fascinating. And in many ways very worrying.

[Dujon]

Unless I misread the article, the author mentions alluvial plains but doesn't expand on them. In most instances flood plains are rich in good soil and make good areas for crop planting. Any sort of flood mitigation affecting those areas will eventually result in the reduction of their soil quality and a significant drop in production per hectare. Mind you water management is a complex matter and tends to become political because of it. Here at the moment (it's not new) there's a right brouhaha going on about irrigation and water allocation, particularly in the Murray-Darling river system and the Snowy River. I won't bore you by going into details but it involves farmers, politicians, environmental groups and just about any other individual or group with an axe to grind.

[bobo the clown]

Unless I misread the article, the author mentions alluvial plains but doesn't expand on them. In most instances flood plains are rich in good soil and make good areas for crop planting. Any sort of flood mitigation affecting those areas will eventually result in the reduction of their soil quality and a significant drop in production per hectare. Mind you water management is a complex matter and tends to become political because of it. Here at the moment (it's not new) there's a right brouhaha going on about irrigation and water allocation, particularly in the Murray-Darling river system and the Snowy River. I won't bore you by going into details but it involves farmers, politicians, environmental groups and just about any other individual or group with an axe to grind.

Are you a geography teacher ??

Wanna buy a jumper ??

[Dujon]

Nah, mate, I know it's been used and where it's been.

[Gooner Girl]

This is part of Mr GG's usual walk to work today in Crawley. Thankfully he didn't get that far as trains and replacement buses weren't running round here anyway so worked from home.

Bit fed up of the rain now, I'd rather have some snow...

[Montreal Wanderer]

Well at least you can see which your car is. Snow is trickier.

[bwfcdan94]

Is there anyone older enough on this forum top remember the winter of 46 I have heard that sights like that (above) could be found in this country during 1946.

[TANGODANCER]

Is there anyone older enough on this forum top remember the winter of 46 I have heard that sights like that (above) could be found in this country during 1946.

It was actually 1947, Dan. I was eight and, despite it only being a couple of hundrd yards away, we couldn't get to school on the first morning after the big snow because it was up to the level of the window sills. Sadly (for us at the time), by lunchtime the adults had cleared paths and trodden up the streets so next day it was business as usual. At eight years old, some of the drifts were big enough to get lost in, although it all appeared huge fun at the time.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Is there anyone older enough on this forum top remember the winter of 46 I have heard that sights like that (above) could be found in this country during 1946.

It was actually 1947, Dan. I was eight and, despite it only being a couple of hundrd yards away, we couldn't get to school on the first morning after the big snow because it was up to the level of the window sills. Sadly (for us at the time), by lunchtime the adults had cleared paths and trodden up the streets so next day it was business as usual. At eight years old, some of the drifts were big enough to get lost in, although it all appeared huge fun at the time.

I was around but don't recall it. IIRC (and this is doubtful) Peter Cook stated the Great train Robbery was a misnomer since it involved no actual loss of train. "We haven't lost of of those since 1947," he continued, "the year of the Great Snow."

I do remember 1962-63 had massive amounts of snow, with 12-20 foot drifts. The next year I was in Canada and really found out about snow.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Having done some research it looks like the Winter of 1962-63 was worse than 1946-47.

Now, the coldest winter since 1740 (mentioned above) yes, 1963. Probably the worst winter of the last 100 years.

Anticyclones to the North and East of the UK, brought bitterly cold air over us. Depression tracked to the South, bringing huge snowfalls to England, Wales, and Scotland. Mean maximum temperatures for January 1963 were more than 5c below average over most of Wales, the Midlands and Southern England, and in some places, an amazing 7c below average!!!!!

The winter began, just before Christmas 1962. The weather in early December was changeable and stormy. London experienced terrible fog, for a time. Gusts of up to 88 knots were recorded in the North of the UK.

A belt of rain over the North of Scotland turned to snow as it moved South, giving Glasgow its first white Christmas since 1938! When the snow belt reached the South, it became almost stationary. 5cm of snow fell in the Channel Islands, 30cm in Southern England.

A blizzard over South West England, and South Wales (Yes!!! We did get snow once! ) in late December, brought snowdrifts 6m deep. It wasn't a laughing matter anymore. Villages were cut off, power lines where drought down, trains were cancelled. Farmers couldn't reach livestock, and many starved to death. Extremely tragic. From Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963, much of England was under snow continuously, an amazing feat, 3 months of snow.

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?acti ... ters;sess=" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Lost Leopard Spot]

As a lad I got cut off in 62. We had helicopters dropping us food. I loved it... and am quite disappointed every year that doesn't ever reach the same levels of 'whiteness'.

[William the White]

Having done some research it looks like the Winter of 1962-63 was worse than 1946-47.

Now, the coldest winter since 1740 (mentioned above) yes, 1963. Probably the worst winter of the last 100 years.

Anticyclones to the North and East of the UK, brought bitterly cold air over us. Depression tracked to the South, bringing huge snowfalls to England, Wales, and Scotland. Mean maximum temperatures for January 1963 were more than 5c below average over most of Wales, the Midlands and Southern England, and in some places, an amazing 7c below average!!!!!

The winter began, just before Christmas 1962. The weather in early December was changeable and stormy. London experienced terrible fog, for a time. Gusts of up to 88 knots were recorded in the North of the UK.

A belt of rain over the North of Scotland turned to snow as it moved South, giving Glasgow its first white Christmas since 1938! When the snow belt reached the South, it became almost stationary. 5cm of snow fell in the Channel Islands, 30cm in Southern England.

A blizzard over South West England, and South Wales (Yes!!! We did get snow once! ) in late December, brought snowdrifts 6m deep. It wasn't a laughing matter anymore. Villages were cut off, power lines where drought down, trains were cancelled. Farmers couldn't reach livestock, and many starved to death. Extremely tragic. From Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963, much of England was under snow continuously, an amazing feat, 3 months of snow.

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?acti ... ters;sess=" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I had a ticket for FAC 3rd in the usual early Jan against Sheff Utd Away. It was finally played on 6 March. Midweek. I was a schoolkid. Couldn't go. Took me a further 25 years to manage my first trip to Bramall Lane.

[Hoboh]

More interesting stuff

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... lunge.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Hoboh]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/enviro ... mmers.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[bobo the clown]

I recall walking in, effectively, snow trenches in 1962/3 to get to school. They were higher than myself, albeit aged only 6.

1977/8 & 78/9 were bad years but nothing like that. I was at Uni in Leeds and it seemed that it snowed every Thursday. I do recall that it began early and continued late. No sooner melting than a new fall.

1981/2 found snow falling about 29th of November and it not going till March. I lived in proper Wales and snow fell on previous snow and ice time after time. There were ruts in the road that if your car got into you really couldn't steer independently. I remember diesel freezing in lorries and the scientists told us we were entering another ice-age ... which is one of the reasons I blow raspberries at the dubious claims of the global warming wallahs.

Then, more or less nothing till a couple of years ago.

[Bruce Rioja]

We used to get snowed-in with living out in the wilds. It was great at first because it meant no school. By the time the damn stuff had thawed sufficiently having spent a week cooped up with the family I fecking ran it to school!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It's a bit like that Stephen King film The Mist out there: I wandered out at dinnertime and got hopelessly lost, it was only the sounds of people screaming as they were eaten by interdimensional creatures that guided me back to the streets I should have been on...