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UK Floods, panic ensues
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I was with a supplier of ours on that day in Liverpool and my wife sent me a text with "Oh my god, have you seen the weather?". I looked out the window and it was lovely sunshine in scouse-land. Driving back down the M62 and it suddenly changed and by the time I got home you could have swam down our road.
I love being indoors when it is tipping it down like that. I think it's a childhood thing really, you feel like a big kid just watching the rain pour down. Didn't realise it was so bad in some areas though - that's when it becomes not so thrilling.
All those Pakistani kids having so much fun! I didn't realise how misrepresented they were, maybe their President was right to stay on at Chequers chilling out with David...0 -
MegaMiniMouse wrote: »You make the assumption that 'this will never happen to us' - but maybe it won't be a flood, maybe it'll be a bomb, or a disease...
You make the assumption that nature's forces can be contained, and so far, (just...), that has been true, but we come ever closer to defeat...
There's not much point worrying about it, though....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
"Let them eat cake"
We were watching the Channel 4 News the other evening with pictures of aid being distributed. Our darling 5 year old son asked what was happening, and OH told him that their food had been washed away by the flood and they were hungry.
"They should go to a restaurant, then", said our little Marie Antoinette....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
That doesn't work in all floods.vivatifosi wrote: »I live 500ft above sea level and way higher than the nearest river or valley. I thought that was really good until the 18" water main in my street burst. I know now that putting polythene with duck tape over the house's air bricks is a really good idea if water is coming. I doubt they had that in Pakistan.
In a water levels flood, water comes up from under your house, through the floorboards. It only worked for you because you were lucky.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »There's not much point worrying about it, though.
If that is true, then it is also true that we need no armed forces, no government, no infrastructure that will enable us to respond to natural events, no education, no NHS, no TV, no films, no fashion industry, no universities, just a bit of grass to chew on, and a stream of water to drink from...0 -
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We already can't safely house people under normal circumstances... no hostels for the homeless.vivatifosi wrote: »No I don't, I do however believe that we'll be better placed than a developing country in terms of how we would handle a natural disaster on any scale because we have more resources.
Chuck in 100,000 other homeless and see how you get on.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Chuck in 100,000 other homeless and see how you get on.
In Pakistan, the figure is said to be 14 million....0 -
MegaMiniMouse wrote: »In Pakistan, the figure is said to be 14 million....
Latest figure, I believe, is 20 million. And we're worried about the problems we have.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Are you planning on still being alive in 2100? I know I'm not.
No, but I have children and I hope they'll be able to have them safely too.
ETA: That's if they want them of course. I have no interest in becoming a grandmother!
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