The whole of Sheiffield under water.

"Owain" wrote in message
...
bof wrote:

More seriously, has anyone heard from Bill recently? Was the last sign of
his motorhome a fully-extended aerial mast poking up out of the
floodwater?

Yes I'm back, having been on flood alert at the daughter's.

Bill

"harrogate3" wrote in message
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"Adrian A" wrote in message
news
wrote:
On Jun 25, 11:25 pm, "Tom Bradbury"
wrote:

He died of the cold, not from drowning.

Surely not?

it's England in June; summer.

And if you believe the do-gooders, global warming is out of
control so
there's no possible way the water would or could have been cold
enough
to kill him.

Unless global warming is a load of ******** of course......

What a pratt you are! It's global warming that is causing the
extreme
weather.




That shows another bit of ignorance. The current westher is the
'European Monsoon' that oftern hits western Europe and the UK in early
June. It's just a bit worse than normal this year!

There was snow in mid June in 1957 and no-one had even thought of
global warming then!


Yes and its only 14C in the peak of summer.

NOT MUCH SIGN OF FOOKING GLOBAL WARMING THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




--
Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:58:34 +0100, (Peter
Hayes) wrote:

Actually not. The average temperature peaked in 1940 and dropped year
on year until 1975. Who didn't watch "The Great Climate Change
Swindle" in Ch4 recently?

The only swindle done was by the producers of that programme.

Which bits in particular did you disagree with , and why?

http://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/...rming-swindle/

So not a lot of refutation of the program's facts, but rather a
refutation of the conclusions. IOW "My theory's better than your
theory".

Apparently (according to that link) the drop in temperature between
the 1940's and 1970's was due to a different *type* of man-made
pollution that we don't carry out any more. Great! If it is that
easy to negate global warming, why not just work out the exact amount
of other pollutants needed to balance the effects of CO2, and start
producing them like we did 70 years ago?

--
Cynic

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:01:28 GMT, Mike_B
wrote:

Some chap got caught in 'quicksand' on Blackpool beach and died in the
rising tide because no-one thought to go and buy a snorkel or advise
him to swim out of it.

Yes, yes.... I'm sure this happened. I'm sure the reason he drowned was
due to the lack of someone to advise him to swim away. Since the depth
of water right to the seawall when the tide is in comes to several
metres, one presumes they would have had to buy a snorkel and a very
long hose pipe as well.

Which would not have worked. You cannot breath through a simple pipe
from a depth of more than a metre or two - the water pressure against
your ribcage is so much greater than the air pressure at the end of
the hose that you cannot inhale any air. You need a pump at the top
of the hose to pressurise the air.

In addition, if a snorkel is too long (or too fat) you end up
rebreathing your exhaled air and will eventually suffocate.

He could possibly have been kept alive with sufficient people, some
heavy weights and a couple of buckets. Though a scuba tank and
regulator would have been better.

--
Cynic

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...

"Owain" wrote in message
...
bof wrote:

More seriously, has anyone heard from Bill recently? Was the last
sign of
his motorhome a fully-extended aerial mast poking up out of the
floodwater?

Yes I'm back, having been on flood alert at the daughter's.

Bill




Ain't you glad sometimes that you live on a hill, Bill? (Note two
'L's' there William, not related to SWTSMBO!)


--
Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com

harrogate3 wrote:
Ain't you glad sometimes that you live on a hill, Bill? (Note two
'L's' there William, not related to SWTSMBO!)

Mind you, he says trying to drag this thread On Topic, the transmitter
building at Bilsdale was flooded in flash floods a couple of summers ago.
Quite an achievement on top of a hill !


--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

foghollow wrote:

In article ,
says...
harrogate3 wrote:


That shows another bit of ignorance. The current westher is the
'European Monsoon' that oftern hits western Europe and the UK in
early June. It's just a bit worse than normal this year!

There was snow in mid June in 1957 and no-one had even thought of
global warming then!



It's certainly not unusual to have torrential rain in Summer. I
refer readers to the "Great Flood of '68" with wiped out 3 road
bridges in Keynsham and seriously damaged a fourth in July 1968.
There was widespread disruption for over a week in the West
Country. I remember speaking to a Keynsham resident shortly after
this, who described the sky as being extremely frightening and
angry, with rain falling like a continual sheet. The Army was
brought in to build Bailey bridges and generally assist.

Only 2 really got taken out totally by the flood - the two down past
the Fry's factory, on the Willsbridge road. The Bath Road bridge was
still standing but a hole developed next day and as it was clearly
unsafe they replaced it rather than repair it. The Dapps Hill bridge
only lost its parapets, probably as it was so low it was already
underwater by the time the flood hit full spate. It finished the
sweetshop at the bottom of Dapps Hill, though - the water filled the
ground floor completely - and so made the journey to school a little
less fun for generations of children.

Fortunately for me the sweetshop closed 4 years after I left Keynsham
Grammar School.

I'm looking for photos I took at the time. I remember one of the
damaged Bath Rd bridge and one of pedestrians having to walk along the
bypass to cross the River Chew.

Will post them on Flickr when I find them.

--
Ashley
For Windsor Weather see www.snglinks.com/wx

wrote in message
ups.com...
On Jun 25, 8:25 pm, "Lord Turkey Cough" wrote:
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.

More than a shower, more than a heavy shower. The rainfall in
Sheffield and other parts of Yorkshire was quite exceptional. Believe
me, I'm an ex-forecaster, albeit some time ago but still maintain a
great interest and now "do it in the back garden", so to speak.

You pervert.


Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey

Patrick Hardlentil wrote:

And Mary Pegg was like:

[1] Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, Scene V:
"Accursed time! unfortunate old man!" and then
"Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!"

He's just making the words fit the metre there, but don't certain

That Shakespeare, eh? 'E just makes it up as 'e goes along, I reckon.
Call that art? I could've done that, if I'd had the Latin, but I didn't
have the Latin, see?

--
"Checking identity papers is a complete waste of time. If anyone can
be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
harrogate3 wrote:
Ain't you glad sometimes that you live on a hill, Bill? (Note two
'L's' there William, not related to SWTSMBO!)

Mind you, he says trying to drag this thread On Topic, the
transmitter
building at Bilsdale was flooded in flash floods a couple of summers
ago.
Quite an achievement on top of a hill !


--


Ah, but a bloody big hill - and it washed the road away for good
measure. Bill lives on a hillside which as far as I know is stable,
unlike the reservoir dam a few miles away!


--
Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com