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Posted:
hi, I just heard on the news that there are floods in north england now, and I hope everyone's ok, and that it gets better soon.
hi, I just heard on the news that there are floods in north england now, and I hope everyone's ok, and that it gets better soon.
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Posted:
yorkshire's under water and the m1 is closed, not looking good
yorkshire's under water and the m1 is closed, not looking good
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old hand
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Posted:
many of the feilds here are flodded, nothing too serious though, i think its worse further north!
many of the feilds here are flodded, nothing too serious though, i think its worse further north!
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But that's a HILLY bit!! Anyone seen an old fella with a beard and lots of animals in pairs?
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yorkshire's under water
But that's a HILLY bit!! Anyone seen an old fella with a beard and lots of animals in pairs?
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Posted:
yes newgabe yourshire is a hilly part of the country where as i'm in norfolk.......................one gigantic flood plain and we've gotten off lightly with the flooding..........weird
yes newgabe yourshire is a hilly part of the country where as i'm in norfolk.......................one gigantic flood plain and we've gotten off lightly with the flooding..........weird
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Posted:
college was flooded but not REALLY flooded
college was flooded but not REALLY flooded
you just lost the game!!!!!! !!!!!
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Posted:
on my way up to york i saw alot of rivers that had broken there banks and flooded the fields around them. bits of york are flooded two but its only affecting the area directly on the river front
on my way up to york i saw alot of rivers that had broken there banks and flooded the fields around them. bits of york are flooded two but its only affecting the area directly on the river front
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Posted:
@ gabe:
South and east yorskhire are all low lying ex-pre glacial lakebed, as low-lying as east anglia and Norfolk.
Historically farms were few and far between on higher land and people used to move from between the two on coricles in times of flood.
Its all one big floodplain
West Yorkshire and north Yorkshire are hilly.
In south and east are the victims of 200 years industrial impact on the area and poor governmental planning and lack of “sustainable” catchment management plans (as opposed to building flood barriers).
@ gabe:
South and east yorskhire are all low lying ex-pre glacial lakebed, as low-lying as east anglia and Norfolk.
Historically farms were few and far between on higher land and people used to move from between the two on coricles in times of flood.
Its all one big floodplain
West Yorkshire and north Yorkshire are hilly.
In south and east are the victims of 200 years industrial impact on the area and poor governmental planning and lack of “sustainable” catchment management plans (as opposed to building flood barriers).
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Posted:
GREAT NEWS EVERYONE!*
Theres more rain on the way today, probably non stop torrential rain for about 9 hours. Lets hope they have to shut down the train lines, so I dont have to spend 5 hours on one being very very bored.
*-this only applies if you like rain
GREAT NEWS EVERYONE!*
Theres more rain on the way today, probably non stop torrential rain for about 9 hours. Lets hope they have to shut down the train lines, so I dont have to spend 5 hours on one being very very bored.
*-this only applies if you like rain
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Posted:
yaaaa..
the man speaketh the truth
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20070720/tuk-britain-on-alert-over-major-flood-fe-45dbed5.html
(hey hey mr UCOF)
while it would be easy forme to rant more all i willsay is. hope you've all got your wellies and that its not to bleak.
spare a thought for ppps goingto glade festy. could be a dampathon
yaaaa..
the man speaketh the truth
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20070720/tuk-britain-on-alert-over-major-flood-fe-45dbed5.html
(hey hey mr UCOF)
while it would be easy forme to rant more all i willsay is. hope you've all got your wellies and that its not to bleak.
spare a thought for ppps goingto glade festy. could be a dampathon
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(hey hey Mr Biggins - when yoo back in yoo kay?)
(hey hey Mr Biggins - when yoo back in yoo kay?)
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Posted:
RAIN RAIN GO AWAY, SOMEWHERE VERY FAR AWAY
RAIN RAIN, NOT TODAY! NOT At GLADE and NOT AT PLAY!
RAIN RAIN, GO AWAY! GO AWAY FROM THE UK!
(that's my rain chant!)
RAIN RAIN GO AWAY, SOMEWHERE VERY FAR AWAY
RAIN RAIN, NOT TODAY! NOT At GLADE and NOT AT PLAY!
RAIN RAIN, GO AWAY! GO AWAY FROM THE UK!
(that's my rain chant!)
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Posted:
It's fooking wet here in Leominster- getting worse by the hour.
It's fooking wet here in Leominster- getting worse by the hour.
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Posted:
they can send it to Milwaukee, we need rain
they can send it to Milwaukee, we need rain
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Posted:
no no! send it here!! we're sick of water restrictions*!!!
*im speaking for rural victoria - the melbournians can stop whinging!
no no! send it here!! we're sick of water restrictions*!!!
*im speaking for rural victoria - the melbournians can stop whinging!
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OH NOOOOO!!! Not raining on the Glade!!! That makes me sad.
OH NOOOOO!!! Not raining on the Glade!!! That makes me sad.
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Posted:
*restrains desire to write about reaping and sowing/unsustainable water/farming/land management practises etc etc etc*
that said, things like the flood in the UK will only happen more and more (it happens every other year anyways).
gabe, you need water in brisbane/all of australia otherwise you'll be having to dig holes, line them with plastic and water through condensation. alternatively you could get yerself a stillsuit ala "dune"
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ps: mr UCOF,thats classified info, i could tell you but then i'd have to make you drink plutonium like that ex russian spy bloke
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*restrains desire to write about reaping and sowing/unsustainable water/farming/land management practises etc etc etc*
that said, things like the flood in the UK will only happen more and more (it happens every other year anyways).
gabe, you need water in brisbane/all of australia otherwise you'll be having to dig holes, line them with plastic and water through condensation. alternatively you could get yerself a stillsuit ala "dune"
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i know you'd look great.
ps: mr UCOF,thats classified info, i could tell you but then i'd have to make you drink plutonium like that ex russian spy bloke
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Posted:
Ya Biggins
I sooo KNOW we need water 
! We save our shower water and put it in the washing machine... save every bit of ex-teapot and rinsing off scruff water for the plants and I haven't washed the car in years! Plus I am about to spend $3,500 on water tanks with no guarantee they will ever get full 
BUT it STILL shouldn't be raining on the Glade
Ya Biggins
I sooo KNOW we need water ! We save our shower water and put it in the washing machine... save every bit of ex-teapot and rinsing off scruff water for the plants and I haven't washed the car in years! Plus I am about to spend $3,500 on water tanks with no guarantee they will ever get full BUT it STILL shouldn't be raining on the Glade
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Posted:
Glade was abondoned after several cars began to float around the car park apparently.
I have just got home (8.20am UK time) having been stranded about 5 miles from where I work (about 30 from home). I managed to make it to a pub in a village and was then fortunate to be put up in a village hall with blankets, toilets and coffee. Thankfully I am now home- I hope other hoppers are OK - its not nice out there.
EDITED_BY: Mr_Chutney (1185003503)
Glade was abondoned after several cars began to float around the car park apparently.
I have just got home (8.20am UK time) having been stranded about 5 miles from where I work (about 30 from home). I managed to make it to a pub in a village and was then fortunate to be put up in a village hall with blankets, toilets and coffee. Thankfully I am now home- I hope other hoppers are OK - its not nice out there.
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Posted:
I'm glad you are home safely Mr C
I'm glad you are home safely Mr C
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Posted:
Oh dear. Hope me boys are alright Not exactly good weather for a fire show...
Oh dear. Hope me boys are alright
Not exactly good weather for a fire show... .....Can't juggle balls but I sure as hell can juggle details....
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Posted:
word on the street is galkde is going off and people are wet but "having it very large"
i suspect the fire twirlers are a bit moist though
word on the street is galkde is going off and people are wet but "having it very large"
i suspect the fire twirlers are a bit moist though
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Posted:
Rain is getting in the way of my Fire Toy cravings.
Rain is getting in the way of my Fire Toy cravings.
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lol, oh dear!
Rain got in the way of a lot of my plans. rain and waist deep water in our garden and drive, and 6 inches in our house! moved the entire of the downstairs furnature upstairs within an hour (not easy in a house this big!)
but on the upside, we were planning on decorating anyway! :-D
And it was amusing, right up to the point it came in the front door!
lol, oh dear!
Rain got in the way of a lot of my plans. rain and waist deep water in our garden and drive, and 6 inches in our house! moved the entire of the downstairs furnature upstairs within an hour (not easy in a house this big!)
but on the upside, we were planning on decorating anyway! :-D
And it was amusing, right up to the point it came in the front door!
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Posted:
hummm...
News aren't good..
This is the most severe fllods in modern british history, hundred of thousands of people are in trouble without clean water or electricity
And the Europeen Union is not in hurry to give them a Euro aid...
For the environment is a tragedy 'caus the aid will go to the people and not to the forest and the river...
hummm...
News aren't good..
This is the most severe fllods in modern british history, hundred of thousands of people are in trouble without clean water or electricity
And the Europeen Union is not in hurry to give them a Euro aid...
For the environment is a tragedy 'caus the aid will go to the people and not to the forest and the river...
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Posted:
I think the EU are prepared to give us money in aid, the British government are so far failing to ask for it (I think you need to have about £2billion damage to be entitled to the aid money in the EU fund.
I think generally, in natural disasters, nature is pretty good at bouncing back. It's us who have trouble dealing with, adjusting to, what nature throws at us.
I think the EU are prepared to give us money in aid, the British government are so far failing to ask for it (I think you need to have about £2billion damage to be entitled to the aid money in the EU fund.
I think generally, in natural disasters, nature is pretty good at bouncing back.
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Posted:
you're so right - that's why it's important it stays in the news or it drops off the political, and consequently financial, agenda. Thousands of people in Hull still not back in their homes after a fortnight and more being added everyday this week in the south & midlands.
The insurance companies (for whom i reserve a healthy distrust & dislike normally) are bound to be (Oh god was going to say 'swamped'
Feck ,'inundated' isn't much better!) incredibly busy handling claims and it must be obvious to everyone they can't be expected to cope with such widespread and unusual circumstances.
The government should be setting up an agency to provide funds quickly to enable people to re-build their homes and their lives and claim that back from the Insuarnce companies when they get thru the paperwork.
Anyone without insurance still needs help or we're condemning people to poverty from which they're unlikely to recover.
We're only as strong as our weakest member - and as rich
you're so right - that's why it's important it stays in the news or it drops off the political, and consequently financial, agenda. Thousands of people in Hull still not back in their homes after a fortnight and more being added everyday this week in the south & midlands.
The insurance companies (for whom i reserve a healthy distrust & dislike normally) are bound to be (Oh god was going to say 'swamped'
Feck ,'inundated' isn't much better!) incredibly busy handling claims and it must be obvious to everyone they can't be expected to cope with such widespread and unusual circumstances.The government should be setting up an agency to provide funds quickly to enable people to re-build their homes and their lives and claim that back from the Insuarnce companies when they get thru the paperwork.
Anyone without insurance still needs help or we're condemning people to poverty from which they're unlikely to recover.
We're only as strong as our weakest member - and as rich
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Posted:
even with insurance unless they have specific flood cover many policies will not cover them, my parents know from passed experience as natural floods are covered by "acts of god"
(without going into a religious debate it amazes me a "person" of dubious existance can be quoted in older legal documents, although I think many new ones use natural disatsters now)
even with insurance unless they have specific flood cover many policies will not cover them, my parents know from passed experience as natural floods are covered by "acts of god"
(without going into a religious debate it amazes me a "person" of dubious existance can be quoted in older legal documents, although I think many new ones use natural disatsters now)
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Posted:
Yeah, the thing about the "act of God" is annoying. Though why the UK, as one of the richer countries in the world and Europe, and which encourages FURTHER building on floodplains (in spite of this, and instead of working on the riverbeds etc) should want money from the EU, kind of escapes me. I assume it's got something to do with people like Cameron claiming that the UK has the "worst social problems in Europe". I expect he'd love to live in Albania instead or be a Curd in Turkey...
Honestly though, if a country where the European constitution is not wanted, which hasn't actively encouraged any major projects of European integration in the last 20 years (Schengen and Euro anyone, for example?), that keeps blocking most new policies that come along, should suddenly demand public money, that would be quite funny. Maybe someone should say "we'll pay for all the damage if you stop blocking everything in the European Parliament"?
(sorry... I'll shut up now)
Yeah, the thing about the "act of God" is annoying. Though why the UK, as one of the richer countries in the world and Europe, and which encourages FURTHER building on floodplains (in spite of this, and instead of working on the riverbeds etc) should want money from the EU, kind of escapes me. I assume it's got something to do with people like Cameron claiming that the UK has the "worst social problems in Europe". I expect he'd love to live in Albania instead or be a Curd in Turkey...
Honestly though, if a country where the European constitution is not wanted, which hasn't actively encouraged any major projects of European integration in the last 20 years (Schengen and Euro anyone, for example?), that keeps blocking most new policies that come along, should suddenly demand public money, that would be quite funny. Maybe someone should say "we'll pay for all the damage if you stop blocking everything in the European Parliament"?
(sorry... I'll shut up now)
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Posted:
Bloody hell glade was wet absolutly pissed it down on the thursday nite thank god we were in crew camping only about 1-2 inches of water where we where and my tent held up relitively well ended up takeing in refuges though but in the main site i saw tents in about a foot of mud at the bottem of the hill on the way out i saw tractors pulling people out of the carpark luckly i made it out useing only people recruted in exchange for tobaco still festival kicked ass and the fire show went briliantly from what i saw (though i was just watching) so i dont know if there were any backstage problems
Bloody hell glade was wet absolutly pissed it down on the thursday nite thank god we were in crew camping only about 1-2 inches of water where we where and my tent held up relitively well ended up takeing in refuges though
but in the main site i saw tents in about a foot of mud at the bottem of the hill on the way out i saw tractors pulling people out of the carpark luckly i made it out useing only people recruted in exchange for tobaco still festival kicked ass and the fire show went briliantly from what i saw (though i was just watching) so i dont know if there were any backstage problems My nunchucks vital statictics
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Posted:
Yeah, Glade was messy as hell. I had so much fun! My and my other half narrowly avoided being camped in a river of mud near ID Spiral, by about 5 feet. I was planning on going straight to Play too, but I needed time off to clean up.
It was rather amusing to see the Joe Bananas Festival survival solutions stall still functioning and selling wellies to people, despite the river of muck running through the bottom of their tent. Overall the vibe was brilliant, everyone pulled together and made the most of it. big hugs to everyone who went!
It was an incredibly lucky escape from the car park though, I got stuck in mud twice, and very nearly had to get towed. My car wasn't happy at all. Apparently there was an 8 hour queue for the tractors... Ouch.
Here's to better weather at Play!
[edit] Birgit, just read your post above. Spot on, and well said.
Yeah, Glade was messy as hell. I had so much fun! My and my other half narrowly avoided being camped in a river of mud near ID Spiral, by about 5 feet. I was planning on going straight to Play too, but I needed time off to clean up.
It was rather amusing to see the Joe Bananas Festival survival solutions stall still functioning and selling wellies to people, despite the river of muck running through the bottom of their tent. Overall the vibe was brilliant, everyone pulled together and made the most of it. big hugs to everyone who went!
It was an incredibly lucky escape from the car park though, I got stuck in mud twice, and very nearly had to get towed. My car wasn't happy at all. Apparently there was an 8 hour queue for the tractors... Ouch.
Here's to better weather at Play!
[edit] Birgit, just read your post above. Spot on, and well said.
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