Preparedness for when

Karmacat

fuddle wrote: »

it shows I am beginning to question the source

Attagirl

GreyQueen

elaine, can I say that the most fascinating thing about your son's activities, from my pov, is that he labelled something he put in a freezer? He's ten, most adults don't have the discipline to label freezer contents and many of us have had amusing encounters with UFOs as a result, and some rather strange dinners. That labelling takes my breath away.

As to the rest, it's nothing much that I wasn't doing as a 10 y.o. girl, minus the shooting, as we were on a council estate in a market town rather than a farm. Sounds like the youngster will go far, and should be able to keep his aging ma and pa in squirrelmeat in their dotage.

Was re-reading Richard Doyle's Flood in the past couple of days. OMG what a page turner. The premise is a hurricane* causing a storm surge down the east coast and up the Thames into London. And what would happen with all the oil storage and refineries in the area, the underground, everything. I won't spoil it for you but it's very well researched and very very believable. There are a lot of areas by the Thames which are heavily populated and very low-lying and which were until relatively recent times actually marshes, and which would flood very easily.

* I perfectly well know that the same kind of storm which is called a hurricane when its in the warmer oceans isn't technically a hurricane in the north Atlantic, but who cares?

ivyleaf

I think I've read that. It made me very relieved when they built the Thames Barrier. (If it's the book I'm thinking of, I think it was written before the Barrier?)

All I can remember about it is that the Emergency Committee, or whatever they were called, were very relieved when the Queen was found safe

I think they're considering building a second barrier now though, a bit further out in the estuary, as it seems sea levels are rising..

GreyQueen

ivyleaf wrote: »

I think I've read that. It made me very relieved when they built the Thames Barrier. (If it's the book I'm thinking of, I think it was written before the Barrier?)

All I can remember about it is that the Emergency Committee, or whatever they were called, were very relieved when the Queen was found safe

I think they're considering building a second barrier now though, a bit further out in the estuary, as it seems sea levels are rising..

Must be a different book as neither of those things were in this one. The Thames barrier was overtopped and the Queen is only mentioned in passing as being in Sandringeham.

Upsidedown_Bear

GreyQueen wrote: »

Was re-reading Richard Doyle's Flood in the past couple of days. OMG what a page turner. The premise is a hurricane* causing a storm surge down the east coast and up the Thames into London. And what would happen with all the oil storage and refineries in the area, the underground, everything. I won't spoil it for you but it's very well researched and very very believable. There are a lot of areas by the Thames which are heavily populated and very low-lying and which were until relatively recent times actually marshes, and which would flood very easily.

* I perfectly well know that the same kind of storm which is called a hurricane when its in the warmer oceans isn't technically a hurricane in the north Atlantic, but who cares?

ivyleaf wrote: »

I think I've read that. It made me very relieved when they built the Thames Barrier. (If it's the book I'm thinking of, I think it was written before the Barrier?)

All I can remember about it is that the Emergency Committee, or whatever they were called, were very relieved when the Queen was found safe

I think they're considering building a second barrier now though, a bit further out in the estuary, as it seems sea levels are rising..

GreyQueen wrote: »

Must be a different book as neither of those things were in this one. The Thames barrier was overtopped and the Queen is only mentioned in passing as being in Sandringeham.

Flood was published in 2002 and made into a programme for TV in 2007.
Flood was an "update" of a book by him published in 1976 (before the Thames Barrier was built) called Deluge.

ivyleaf - maybe you read Deluge? I've recently read it

Frugalsod

ivyleaf wrote: »

I think they're considering building a second barrier now though, a bit further out in the estuary, as it seems sea levels are rising..

It was supposed to protect London from once in a century storms and is now being used almost monthly due to sea level rising. Another one will only be another stop gap. If sea levels return to the levels that was around when CO2 levels were this higher London would be under meters of water. Once the major ice sheets melt sea levels will be 67 meters higher than today. Which includes most of our agricultural land and many cities. House boats might be really forward thinking solutions. I know where I live will be deep underwater when that happens.

GreyQueen

Frugalsod wrote: »

It was supposed to protect London from once in a century storms and is now being used almost monthly due to sea level rising. Another one will only be another stop gap. If sea levels return to the levels that was around when CO2 levels were this higher London would be under meters of water. Once the major ice sheets melt sea levels will be 67 meters higher than today. Which includes most of our agricultural land and many cities. House boats might be really forward thinking solutions. I know where I live will be deep underwater when that happens.

:eek: Ooops, I'll be about 30m underwater, then.

Mardatha, room for a little one on your hill?

thriftwizard

There's a little app for Google Earth whereby you can see the effects of sea-levels 10, 20, 30m - you choose - above present levels - it's quite interesting. And scary!

GreyQueen

In 1999, my quip was that my advice for the new millennium was don't buy real estate in the Netherlands.

I have my hall full of gas engineers. My hall is 75cm wide. Just hope I don't need to access any of the other rooms in the flat.

I think I'll darn some socks, it's one of the to-do's on today's list, as this is an all day gig with the geezers. I've bought biscuits specially.;)

Frugalsod

thriftwizard wrote: »

There's a little app for Google Earth whereby you can see the effects of sea-levels 10, 20, 30m - you choose - above present levels - it's quite interesting. And scary!

This goes up to 60m http://flood.firetree.net even more scary.