What's more current than the weather?

[Gravdigr]

Quite moist here, atm.

[xoxoxoBruce]

One Saturday morning in January I saw a little dandruff on the lawn but by noon the rain washed it away. Nice winter.

[Happy Monkey]

Windows open in February.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Windows open in February.

Same here.

[Carruthers]

The recent Storms Ciara and Denis dumped a huge volume of rain on the UK and it hasn't really stopped raining since.

There has been severe flooding along the River Severn in Shropshire and Worcestershire.

I heard a news reporter yesterday say that 500 tonnes of water a second were passing through Ironbridge.

To cap it all, we now have Storm Jorge about to pay us a visit with 70mph gales and another 80mm of rain.

It's been chucking it down all day here and the back lawn is like a marsh.

That, of course, pales into insignificance when you look at the damage that has been done in other parts of the country.

Incidentally, as the Spanish Met Service named the storm Jorge, we have to pronounce it 'Hor-hay'.

If you ask me, the whole thing is getting beyond a hoke.



I always find January and February hard going and it doesn't help that I have a birthday at that time of year.

Birthdays are a bit like the Reader's Digest.

No matter how many times you cancel, they still keep sending them.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Damn, 500 tonnes is 132,530 gallons per second, talk about an irresistible force.

Speaking of tough birthdays, both my parents were born on December 27th.

[Gravdigr]

Heh, I did the math on that, too.

Well, I let the Google do it...

[xoxoxoBruce]

I started to do it with a small hand calculator but it didn't have enough spaces, so I tried the Windows calculator but couldn't figure out how to divide on that thing, so did it by hand.

[Carruthers]

It's not just the volume of water on the move that would worry me; it's what might be in it.

The surface drainage and sewerage system is overloaded to the point where manhole covers are forced off and the contents enter into the mix.

The opening shots of the video above shows that the flooding abuts a sewerage treatment plant.

It's possible that there are measures that can be taken to prevent contamination of the flood water but I wouldn't put money on it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The flood water and all the shit it carries with it, is not just a figure of speech. Virtually all floods are contaminated with fecal matter from multiple species. But there's two types of floods, first, the rising water that submerges everything then recedes to expose a soggy contaminated world. The other is the rampaging flood which destroys everything in its path with unimaginable force and violence leaving in its wake contaminated rubble. The thing they have in common is shitty water.

Shit isn't the danger, it dries out and can be cleaned up. The danger is shit is food, wonderful nutritious food for things we don't want to feed. Nasty, deadly things we compete with every day for domination.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

It's not just the volume of water on the move that would worry me; it's what might be in it.

In Australia, it is crocodiles and exotic poisonous snakes. What are a few (trillion) tiny bacteria compared to that?

How wide (kilometers) are resulting flood plains?

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by tw

In Australia, it is crocodiles and exotic poisonous snakes. What are a few (trillion) tiny bacteria compared to that?

I'm sure that as the good people of Shropshire and Worcestershire trudge through a toxic soup of sewage, farm animal slurry, agricultural chemicals, oil and petrol, at the forefront of their minds will be the marked absence of crocodiles swimming down the High Street and black mambas in the basement.

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Heh, I did the math on that, too.

Well, I let the Google do it...

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I started to do it with a small hand calculator but it didn't have enough spaces, so I tried the Windows calculator but couldn't figure out how to divide on that thing, so did it by hand.

I asked Alexa, who instantly had the the answer. When I told her how you guys were figuring it out, she laughed and she laughed...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by sexobon

I asked Alexa, who instantly had the the answer. When I told her how you guys were figuring it out, she laughed and she laughed...

She was laughing from happiness that you told her because up to that point she had no idea what I was doing. She doesn't like that.

[Gravdigr]

Your comment reminds me of a Ron White-ism:

It's not that the wind is blowing; it's what the wind is blowing,

He was talking about those weathermen that feel the need to report from the actual hurricane front...