blowin a hooley out there

"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe) 02/15/2020 at 17:10 • Filed to: None

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its dennis the menace :p

i always figured rising sea levels meant the netherlands would be the first country in europe to end up under water...but looks like sunny ole britain is going to get there first

anyhoo....

Cé hé sin > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/15/2020 at 17:22

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Quite draughty here too!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/15/2020 at 17:22

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What’s with the ‘y’ on the end of that name?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/15/2020 at 17:30

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no idea...never heard of harris and hoole either

WilliamsSW > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/15/2020 at 17:33

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Is that a sex reference?  

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > WilliamsSW 02/15/2020 at 17:39

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*checks google images*.... no

*checks bing* still no..... im amazed... i thought everything led to porn on bing

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/15/2020 at 17:42

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Apparently it’s a coffee chain in the UK named after a couple of coffee-loving characters in a book b y Samuel Pepys . I thought it was kind of funny since Hoole is my Finnish step-dad’s last name.

SiennaMan > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/15/2020 at 17:49

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The difference is the Dutch have literally spent centuries sorting o ut how to keep the water at bay, while for Britannia, it’s a relatively new issue..

WilliamsSW > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/15/2020 at 17:53

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farscythe - makin da cawfee! > SiennaMan 02/15/2020 at 18:07

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eh...they’ll get used to it

Chinny Raccoon > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/15/2020 at 18:23

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I’ve just been to Manchester and back from South Wales and it’s very wet out there. Not quite as bad as last October just yet, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings.

Here’s the Welsh flood alerts. It’s a devolved matter, so if you live on the border you need to check two agencies to get the full picture.

TheRealBicycleBuck > SiennaMan 02/15/2020 at 18:52

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After Katrina, some wiseasses in the academic and government communities decided that the Dutch really knew what they were doing and could teach the poor Louisianans a few things about doing levees right. After spending millions, they finally realized that a) the Dutch spend way more per mile; b) the Dutch have many more people and a much more complex governance t o oversee their levee system; and c) the U.S. could never afford to implement anything remotely similar to the Dutch system, especially since our levees protect a lot more land mass from a different type of flooding.

To drive this point home, I asked one of the Dutch experts to tell me how h e would address the Red River levee district. This district has 125 miles of levees, a levee board of six people, and an annual funding level around $26,000. All of the board members are volunteers. Their funding is primarily used to keep the levees mowed.

He declined to answer.

After all of the money was spent, the Dutch went home and there have been very few changes.

SiennaMan > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/15/2020 at 19:20

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LA is a very different sort of challenge and anybody with sense would’ve known we’d never be willing to spend what they do on flood defense. For the UK, each square meter is more valuable to keep productive than the US and protected so maybe they’d be able to apply a thing or two..

Svend > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 02/15/2020 at 19:52

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A few floods in Cumbria. Not where I am, but the likes of Appleby-in-Westmorland, Grasmere, etc... have taken a light beating, nothing severe. 

Nom De Plume > WilliamsSW 02/15/2020 at 20:43

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Anything’s a Hooley if you’re brave enough!