The whole of Sheiffield under water.

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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On 25/06/2007 21:33, Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

Ignore this, post I put a new one in.

For the sake of a missing "i"? You could cancel the original message if
you though people cared, or that most people hadn't killfile'd you.

Don't worry I have killfile'd them too!!

You may choose to scoff, but I was in the S Yorks Fire Control Room
just after lunch and believe me it was bad. The River Don at
Meadowhall rose enough to flood - about eight feet - in under an hour,
the last two feet in about five minutes. Almost every road out of
Sheffield was flooded at some point - it took me exactly two hours to
get from the centre to the M1, and I know the back roads well! The
A617 coming into the town from J29 is under 3m of water! My wife is
currently at Chesterfield hospital which is on a hill east of the
town: every road that she could use to get away - in any direction -
is impassible, and she started trying at 16:00!

Before Sheffield I was in Hull and that was even worse - that was
where the poor chap died with his foot stuck in railings.

I have been a field tech covering either the North of England or
latterly Yorkshire for 28 years and I have seen NEVER weather as bad
as this - and I don't frighten easily.


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Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com

In article , harrogate3
writes
You may choose to scoff, but I was in the S Yorks Fire Control Room
just after lunch and believe me it was bad. The River Don at
Meadowhall rose enough to flood - about eight feet - in under an hour,
the last two feet in about five minutes. Almost every road out of
Sheffield was flooded at some point - it took me exactly two hours to
get from the centre to the M1, and I know the back roads well! The
A617 coming into the town from J29 is under 3m of water! My wife is
currently at Chesterfield hospital which is on a hill east of the
town: every road that she could use to get away - in any direction -
is impassible, and she started trying at 16:00!

Before Sheffield I was in Hull and that was even worse - that was
where the poor chap died with his foot stuck in railings.

I have been a field tech covering either the North of England or
latterly Yorkshire for 28 years and I have seen NEVER weather as bad
as this - and I don't frighten easily.



What are Yorkshire water shares like at the moment;?....
--
Tony Sayer

On 25/06/2007 22:12, Derek Geldard wrote:

What's the apostrophy for ?

The missing "e" from where I verbed killfile?

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:10:49 +0100, Sam Nelson
wrote the following to uk.misc:

In article ,
says...
Well you would think so the way the news channels are
going overvboard about it.
Blimey you would think these people had never seen a heavy
rain shower before!!
A waste of the license payers money.

Some poor bloke drowning in front of a bunch of helpless firefighters
because he had his foot trapped in a gate is pretty serious stuff.
Isn;t it?

It's just "half_pint" trolling again. Must be half term.

mh.
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On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:33:34 +0100, tony sayer
wrote the following to uk.misc:

In article , harrogate3
writes
You may choose to scoff, but I was in the S Yorks Fire Control Room
just after lunch and believe me it was bad. The River Don at
Meadowhall rose enough to flood - about eight feet - in under an hour,
the last two feet in about five minutes. Almost every road out of
Sheffield was flooded at some point - it took me exactly two hours to
get from the centre to the M1, and I know the back roads well! The
A617 coming into the town from J29 is under 3m of water! My wife is
currently at Chesterfield hospital which is on a hill east of the
town: every road that she could use to get away - in any direction -
is impassible, and she started trying at 16:00!

Before Sheffield I was in Hull and that was even worse - that was
where the poor chap died with his foot stuck in railings.

I have been a field tech covering either the North of England or
latterly Yorkshire for 28 years and I have seen NEVER weather as bad
as this - and I don't frighten easily.



What are Yorkshire water shares like at the moment;?....

Barely afloat.

mh.
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http://personal.nukesoft.co.uk

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Something's funny there. They must've had access to Fire Service &
Police Diver breathing apparatus (which would've kept him alive for a hour
or so underwater), and they were surely carrying cutting equipment (which
would've dealt with the trapped foot, by amputation in the last resort).
Even without the technology, if they'd strapped a harness under him and
then set 6 beefy firemen pulling hard he would've come free eventually
(perhaps with a broken, torn or even missing foot).

Will be interesting to hear the full story when it emerges.

He died of the cold, not from drowning. After spending any length of time
in cold water, the body will go in to hypothermia,
then shock and eventually the heart goes into arrest as it tries to pump
ever harder the blood around the body, so much so that it can't take the
exertion required and the heart stops. Now clinically dead, however, brain
death can take longer because of decreased cellular activity because of the
cold. It is potentially possible to bring somebody back 'from the dead' at
this point.

In article , Marcus Houlden
writes
What are Yorkshire water shares like at the moment;?....

Barely afloat.

LOL, but you can bet your wellies there'll be a hose pipe ban next
month.

Mike

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Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians.
Yorkshire Halvard Lange

"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , harrogate3
writes
You may choose to scoff, but I was in the S Yorks Fire Control Room
just after lunch and believe me it was bad. The River Don at
Meadowhall rose enough to flood - about eight feet - in under an hour,
the last two feet in about five minutes. Almost every road out of
Sheffield was flooded at some point - it took me exactly two hours to
get from the centre to the M1, and I know the back roads well! The
A617 coming into the town from J29 is under 3m of water! My wife is
currently at Chesterfield hospital which is on a hill east of the
town: every road that she could use to get away - in any direction -
is impassible, and she started trying at 16:00!

Before Sheffield I was in Hull and that was even worse - that was
where the poor chap died with his foot stuck in railings.

I have been a field tech covering either the North of England or
latterly Yorkshire for 28 years and I have seen NEVER weather as bad
as this - and I don't frighten easily.



What are Yorkshire water shares like at the moment;?....

Has the hosepipe ban ben lifted yet?

--
Tony Sayer

Andy Burns wrote:

On 25/06/2007 22:12, Derek Geldard wrote:

What's the apostrophy for ?

The missing "e" from where I verbed killfile?

What missing 'e'? If it was missing it would have read "killfil'd",
which is rather nice, but not what was written.

On the other hand there's a missing 'e' in "apostrophy".

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