Cork Floods Yesterday

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by El Toro, Oct 19, 2023.

  1. It amuses, and frustrates, me in equal measure how these things are reported as unprecedented’ and like they are new. We’ve always had flooding. We’ve always had droughts. We’ve always had cold spells.

    But I guess like lots of history (eg slavery being only white people capturing blank people) it’s all being rewritten so we believe the narrative and are controlled in whatever way wanted by those in control.
     
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  2. Driving yesterday near Uttoxeter most roads has high incidence of deep surface water, with the resulting high speed spinoffs for those in lighter vehicles.

    Getting off the main arterial roads led to places with severe floods which were obvious to any driver, but again there were small cars abandoned (water well over the wheels).

    Seems that some people -sad as it is that their car is ruined- simply have no sense at all.
     
  3. Plus, why does every spell of bad weather need a bloody name now...:rolleyes:
     
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  4. Tbf I think they have some that for many, many years.
     
  5. IIRC hurricanes etc.
     
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  6. Plus the use of the phrase ‘Weather Bomb’
    Is this blatant use of extreme language meant to terrify us?
    Idiots.
     
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  7. Brand loyalty innitt
     
  8. It was common but appears to be getting rarer……..
     
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  9. I quite like it. Gives it a human element. How about train crash Eddie? Or plane crash Dave? :thinkingface:
     
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  10. As you’re aware the English are only interested in their former colonies………
     
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  11. Its almost as if people see real life driving as an extension of their car video games.
     
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  12. dude, it would make for an interesting conversation, but i don't discus constitutional maters on line. i think folks know that.
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    the English, for they were ever a great and generous folk, quick to respond when justice calls. Our real enemies are among us, born without imagination."
     
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  13. My new favourite is that Africans built Stone Henge :joy: anyway back to the weather and climate, as you say we have always had weather events like this and the planet has always been warming up and cooling down and always will.
     
    #33 Zeus, Oct 21, 2023
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  14. Beast from the where the fuck ever!
     
  15. A rather pleasant mild spell with pleasing westerly winds Pauline?
     
  16. Exactly, my sentiments entirely.
     
  17. More scaremongering to instill fear into the gullible public. It’s just weather, we’ve always had it.
     
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  18. Indeed they have. 1887 according to Wiki. Names rotate (male/female and alphabetical). Also, I remember reading that when so many human deaths or damage are attributed to a storm, its name is never used again and taken out from the lists. It stays attached to that specific storm (Ivan, Katrina, etc.)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_naming#:~:text=The name selected comes from,between male and female names.
     
    #38 Guillaume69, Oct 22, 2023
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  19. Didn’t we have ‘ Train crash Truss’ about this time last year.
     
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  20. George Orwell’s 1984 should be compulsory reading.
     
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