Practically Classics Forum

It's not really been that bad locally; just fairly normal for this Winter of 2006 - Relatively speaking, until last Sunday, September has been quite good.

If there is any personal effect, it's just the realisation that the Winter has gone on for another year (We haven't had a Summer here since 2006), though perhaps realisation has now become expectation. It's simply a case of being choked off, rather than washed or blown away.

I have every sympathy with those who are knee deep in crap and of course there is the problem of getting insurance in the future and what this will do to the value of affected properties. Assuming the “Jet stream” isn’t just something dreamed up by the Met Office, then clearly research into diverting or blocking it needs to be carried out (On a global scale). I suggest this is more important than digging holes on Mars. As it stands, we are getting far too much wet weather and some places none at all, with dire consequences in each case. Far fetched perhaps but most things, that have been achieved, would have seemed far fetched at one time and a journey of one thousand miles does start with the first step.

Oddly enough, my father is reading a book about the 500cc Formula racing, that developed after WW2. It gives details of many of the races in the UK and many of them were wet. Is wet weather during “Summer” anything new Perhaps not, though I think the weather post 2006 has been the longest “Winter” I can remember.

Martin Evans wrote:just fairly normal for this Winter of 2006 - Relatively speaking, until last Sunday, September has been quite good

Much the same up this way Martin. I've seen it worse this year but it has been pretty wet over the past week or so with many rivers full to bursting and many roads flooded. I was in Glasgow yesterday at a Renewables Roadshow and there was a presentation on water conservation. The speaker put up a map of England showing what he called "water distress". There were lots of red and amber areas, obviously showing those areas that struggle with demand for clean water. He went on to apologise for not having corresponding maps of Wales and Scotland because the respective administrations in those countries don't produce such a map. I had to laugh at this and point out that the reason those countries administrations don't produce such a map is because they don't suffer from the sort of "water distress" the map of England showed Our distress is from too much water

Dave