Just thought you might like to know where your tax-paying quids are going: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-...d-bae-systems-woomera-south-australia/5242636 I'm sure you will all feel safer in your beds tonight.
Floods, or at least a lot of heavy rain, are a regular occurrence up north. It's those wusses down south who are the ones who always bitch about the weather.
You are not wrong mate. These drones are bloody obsolete anyway. The Americans have one that cannot be detected on radar because it goes too fast - 5 times the speed of sound. The only thing that gives it away is the so called 'chem trails' which appear afterwards so we know it's been there. Frightening innit!
don't worry about it, if people choose to live on wet lands and flood plains below sea level and you get the wettest January in over a hundred years, what do they expect - have you seen how high the sea has been - answer, don't live near water - why should tax payers pay for these people to live in stupid places and protect their homes - people will start to think about where they buy houses in future
I think you'll find that over 99.9% of the UK is above sea level - this is about the clots that live below sea level
A lot of places - 'flood-plains' - flood despite being above sea-level; and there are houses and development being built on them. Still.
fair point and agree - it's not as if the name 'flood-plain' doesn't offer a clue to the prospective home-buyer what's likely to happen - a few pipes, pumps and a dredged river is hardly enough to prevent mass flooding - and who pays for the pipes, pumps and dredged rivers to assist these numbskulls living there
I feel really sorry for these folk and can't believe how lucky we have been around here with the weather in the past month or so. I agree with the stupidity of developers building on flood plains and concreting over the countryside just for a quick profit, they can then just walk away and leave everyone else to deal with the consequences. Of course people shouldn't buy the homes but i suppose not everyone thought of that at the time. I have just been watching the news and residents on the Somerset Levels are saying that they have lived there all their lives and it is the worst they have ever seen, so this weather is unprecedented and to expect 100% protection from any kind of weather is unrealistic bad though it is for those affected. We get the same comments when there is drought, extreme snow, extreme heat - you name it we should be prepared for it! I just hope they all keep safe and get back to normal as soon as possible.
Part of the problem is that for some reason, we now expect our coastline to match the maps from some arbitrary point in time , whereas in reality, the coastline has changed year on year since time began. Sea defences protect one bit, but the energy has to go somewhere. People then see the extreme weather as some sort of sign pointing to something other than the simple fact that the climate naturally changes. The problem then is it opens the argument to discussions on if it's our fault or not rather than accepting that we can't just use resources unsustainably and we should build and adapt to the eventual climate change, whoever's fault it is.
it's about time we had a truly democratic voting system in which to elect something which effectively representative of the UK population. And the double standards shown by the Tory party in demanding a more representative union member showing before strikes is laughable. And when Cameron's puppy dog, Clegg sells his party down the river in return for a doomed referendum on proportional representation we see Turkeys successfully voting against Christmas! The system has to change away from our holier than thou 19th century attitude to democracy. the argument usually drops to: "...if it aint bust, dont change it....". Trouble is, as the majority know, it is bust!!!
Calderdale, Airedale and the Pennines are some of the best areas to live in the North. Trouble is, when it rains there it rains - and it floods in torrents!!!
You didn't read the 'comments' that followed mate . . . Quote: Like US B-2 stealth bombers, it will be able to fly undetected by radar...' Just as a matter of interest does anybody know if the Jindalee/JORN system can detect these things? My understanding is JORN works on the basis of what is not reflected of the RADAR signal rather than on what is reflected of the RADAR signal. IF that is the case, then I suspect these so called RADAR invisible devices aren't so invisible. Unquote:
If only the 250 British companies working on the project had done some proper research and read something on the Internet.
Doesn't seem to be a problem in Holland. They have large areas reclaimed rom the sea. Still, all will be OK when Labour get in. There won't be heavy rains under them and skies will always be blue.
Pays my bills. That £180m will support plenty of other jobs. While there are better things that they could be spending the money on (e.g. self-sustainable renewable energy rather than having to pay foreign companies for it) this sort of project keeps a lot of skilled people from losing their skills and training (think about the factories and engineering that used to exist in this country - we used to be world leaders in nuclear technology and now we have to outsource to EDF). Compare that cost to the ridiculous government "Help to Sell" housing scheme and it's a mere drop in the ocean.
