Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

3.5 hours after the event isn't 3.5 hours' notice.

Firstly, it'll start registering on social media within the hour, with footage etc uploaded.

But .... what is notice? Notice is it coming onto the telly when you've got it on .... or being online when word spreads and spotting it.

Not much notice at 1am when you're in the land of nod.



Princess Diana died about 1am. First I knew of it was about 5pm the following day - I'd not had the telly on.

I assume there is some sort of system in place. Mass text messages? Police/army in cars with loud speakers.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I assume there is some sort of system in place. Mass text messages? Police/army in cars with loud speakers.

I doubt it. I'm on no text list - nor would I notice it'd arrived. Police/army in cars with loud speakers can't easily cover every house/road in 2.5-3 hours from being told themselves across an area, say, 150 miles long and 2 miles inland.

Where I am, here, would be swamped probably ... it's quite low lying - and the wave would just go inland here by probably 5-6 miles.

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

Tsunamis don't worry me much either. I live a l-o-n-g way from the coast and something like 450ft up a hill. It's very windy mind, so we don't get everything our way.

I'm guessing the police would go door to door in the event that they wanted a mass evacuation. They wouldn't need to get people too far in this country.

I found this map, you can also link to one of the UK. The impact on Florida is quite scary:

http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/florida.shtml

You obviously haven't seen the highly realistic Hollywood documentary "2012" where the tsunami, having consumed the whole of India, comes flying over the top of the Himalayas (but somehow Africa is left completely unaffected).

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

You obviously haven't seen the highly realistic Hollywood documentary "2012" where the tsunami, having consumed the whole of India, comes flying over the top of the Himalayas (but somehow Africa is left completely unaffected).

In the programme, when it came to the Caribbean, they did say of a couple of the islands that there's a HUGE mountain that'd stop the wave wiping out the island. Trouble is, the people live between the mountain and the sea and the roads are so poor they couldn't actually get the other side of it in time.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Mine cost £25, from Mr S basics range - bought late 2012 and still looks as good as new. Worked every day since .... but at that price if it fails I'll just go and get another. I expect it'll last 8-10 years if not more.

Mine cost me I think about £5 or £10 second hand....18 years ago. I know it wasn't much, it could always have been nothing as I always get confused between that and the table.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I doubt it. I'm on no text list - nor would I notice it'd arrived. Police/army in cars with loud speakers can't easily cover every house/road in 2.5-3 hours from being told themselves across an area, say, 150 miles long and 2 miles inland.

Where I am, here, would be swamped probably ... it's quite low lying - and the wave would just go inland here by probably 5-6 miles.

As my parents live on the sea front in the area affected by the big floods, they receive a phone call telling them when there is a flood warning.

We also have an alarm system for catastrophies here too, a leftover from when we had the big gas thingies outside the docks. It's now used as an evacuation alarm in case of chemical spills etc at the docks.

Generali

Apparently a tsunami is a 1 in 400 year event in Sydney. It's mostly built on a cliff so it's only places like Bondi that would go and they're all tourists there anyway so nobody would be that fussed about them.

lostinrates

My geese are grump today. It took an hour to move them. In the end they simply came into the garden and are thrilled I have put them there again. I think maybe we have a fox in the Cake scrub again and its spooked them yesterday, they were really set against compliance.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

My geese are grump today. It took an hour to move them. In the end they simply came into the garden and are thrilled I have put them there again. I think maybe we have a fox in the Cake scrub again and its spooked them yesterday, they were really set against compliance.

What sensible geese you have. How can you persuade the fox to go away?

bugslet

GDB2222 wrote: »

What sensible geese you have. How can you persuade the fox to go away?

Does Kiwi have any fox chasing genes in him?

Back from 2 days in the NP heartland and a trip to Goring to take some customers out - had one of the best meals I've had for a long time in the Miller of Mansfield - need to find an excuse to go back!