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JimB
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Registered: December 2006
Messages: 349
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It is about 9:40am Pacific Coast time in US on Sunday the 22nd and the board doesn't show any posts since July 20th. Is there something wrong? Or something going on that I'm not aware of? It is really odd that the board is totally silent for two days.
JimB
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Zambezi
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Toe is in the water |
Location: Various (!)
Registered: January 2004
Messages: 40
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I noticed the same thing.
Could be a number of things. Most of England is currently under water, which I guess prevents some from posting. I know Timmy's area was quite badly hit on Friday but he is around and alive.
I'm here though 
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you.
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Just a hint of what's going on. This is within a mile of where I live. Also we're threatened with having our water supplies cut for three days and our electricity is under threat too.
Hugs
Nigel
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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I had to swim home from the hospital on Friday, though. We had over 4" (9cm or more) of water in an hour here.
I also achieved wrecking my car (0.9 probability) on a speed bump while finding my way around the floods. I find out tomorrow what it will cost, but I think it's a write off.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
Messages: 4729
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OOOOH...... i loves a day at the beach.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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daffey44
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Getting started |
Location: USA
Registered: March 2004
Messages: 23
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What you had in an hour is about 25% more than what Los Angeles had over the past 12 months!
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Zambezi
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Toe is in the water |
Location: Various (!)
Registered: January 2004
Messages: 40
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... but if your car is a write off then no-one will ever again experience the exhilaration the Journeyman and I felt of being driven around in a car while it was on fire. It's a loss to the world.
About the rain. The kind of rainfall we have experienced in Britain in the last couple of months has not been, by world standards, anything to write home about. I used to live in the tropics in an apartment building with an automatic rain gauge on the roof which recorded more than 20mm of rain in five minutes (the smallest time frame it measured) several times a week in the monsoon season. True, it is unusual here (particularly in parts of south east England, where there has been a long term drought and 12 months ago the talk was of when the water was going to run out). But heavy rain is not unheard of in Britain and the consequences have been played out in one location or another all across the country maybe a dozen times in the last ten years: Sheffield a few weeks ago; Boscastle and Carlisle a couple of years back, Worcester and York EVERY winter. My sister lives in Bedford and paddles her canoe to work a couple of times every year. For anybody to stand up and claim - like the Government is trying - that this weekend's flooding is a once in 150 years or so event which cannot be prepared for is simply bollocks.
What screws us here in urban areas is that, in terms of infrastructure, if the Victorians didn't leave it behind then we don't have it. Drains designed to cope with surface run-off in 19th century urban sprawl are simply not up to the demands of 21st century land use. The little that actually has been built in the last 100 years has - like everything else in Britain - been done down to a price rather than up to a standard and there is no headroom for anything beyond the bare minimum it was designed for.
In rural areas the problem is that we have extremely strange ideas about what constitutes appropriate land use combined with over-consumption of land, with the end result that half the population lives spread out on undefended flood plains. The inevitable consequence of such folly came home to roost this month.
Rant over.
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you.
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