The Highway Man
Brit Pack 2I/C
I must admit, it was pretty difficult driving through Carlisle on that day!!! :shock:
'Ello you lot.
Capt Frogman
Brit Pack (Troop Commander)
I must admit, it was pretty difficult driving through Carlisle on that day!!! :shock:
That's by Debenhams isn't it?
I3BrigPvSk
The Viking
I'm a qualified military ski instructor.
I always fancied doing a biathlon. Never got the chance.
Spring you say? We'd better start organising something?
To see the Brits on skates would be really interesting, even see the Brit Pack playing ice hockey. Maybe Hawky has picked that up during his residency in Canada.
I was active in biathlon when I was a member of a military volunteer organization in Sweden. The organization doesn't exist any longer, I think. It was called Voluntarily Commander Education.
The Highway Man
Brit Pack 2I/C
Yeah, Debenhams on the right, the old police station across the lights on the left and the Civic Centre, the tower block on the right. One of my old colleagues went for a night out the night before and said to me, "I've left my car in the Civic centre car park, don't give me a ticket in the morning" God beat me to it, we could just see the tip of his aerial sticking out of the flood water!!! :lol:
Capt Frogman
Brit Pack (Troop Commander)
Ah skates. I don't think I've ever put a pair of skates on.... :lol:
Were you any good at the biathlon?
Capt Frogman
Brit Pack (Troop Commander)
It's a popular parking area so I suspect there were quite a few cars under all that water. :shock:
I3BrigPvSk
The Viking
Ah skates. I don't think I've ever put a pair of skates on.... :lol:
Were you any good at the biathlon?
Not really, I was a better shooter than skier. I got me gold medals, which I could wear on a dress uniform.
The Swedish dress uniform (army) was ugly, I hated it.
I3BrigPvSk
The Viking
I must admit, it was pretty difficult driving through Carlisle on that day!!! :shock:
You get flooding in GB with regularity; water is a cause of destruction. Do the flooding causes any landslides?
The Highway Man
Brit Pack 2I/C
There's been quite a few land slides. On the rail, the coastal branch line has been blocked a few times as has the west coast main line. Here's a link to recent landslide studies.
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/landslides/caseStudies.html
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/landslides/caseStudies.html
Capt Frogman
Brit Pack (Troop Commander)
Capt Frogman
Brit Pack (Troop Commander)
Yep, quite a few landslides up and down GB.
You could be in for a job over here I3Brig.
I3BrigPvSk
The Viking
Yep, quite a few landslides up and down GB.
You could be in for a job over here I3Brig.
If I apply for a job in GB, I must learn to speak Jockese and all other strange accents. (off to the Rosetta stone website)
Will you force me to wear a kilt? Force me to eat haggis? :shock:
We had a flooding here last spring, there is a problem when some lands are reclaimed from water, when something happens (spring flood, heavy rain, etc) the water has a tendency to reclaim the land. It happens a lot during a hurricane and even earthquakes (liquidfaction)
Here they have the sewage treatment plant on reclaimed land, and to make it worse, they have placed in under ground so there was a disturbance, not a major problem, but it could been a cause of an outbreak of unwanted diseases.
It can be satisfying to say to the board "I told you so.."
The Highway Man
Brit Pack 2I/C
There was a fair bit of water came down during our bad one. I'd managed to travel 31 miles to work through flooded town and villages only to find my depot was under 6 foot of water and had to go home again. I'd just got through the door and got scrambled by the Red Cross to staff an evacuation centre in......yep you guessed it - Carlisle!!! so I had to travel all the way back again!!!
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Capt Frogman
Brit Pack (Troop Commander)
Unless you're visiting bonnie Scotland, you'll get by fine without knowing any Jockese.
Besides, the majority of us are bilingual if you keep to the decent areas. 
You do realise that we don't wear kilts everyday?
Once a year at best in my case. You will be forced to eat haggis though.
I'm no expert but even I can see the stupidity in that. :roll:
Capt Frogman
Brit Pack (Troop Commander)
Remember Cockermouth Highway Man? :shock:
I3BrigPvSk
The Viking
There was a fair bit of water came down during our bad one. I'd managed to travel 31 miles to work through flooded town and villages only to find my depot was under 6 foot of water and had to go home again. I'd just got through the door and got scrambled by the Red Cross to staff an evacuation centre in......yep you guessed it - Carlisle!!! so I had to travel all the way back again!!!
I checked the map, it looks like reclaimed land surrounding the rivers, and the rivers are taking it back. Do you have dams upstream of these rivers? They can be forced to open the dams to avoid a catastrophic failure of the dams. This happened in Australia (Queensland)
Capt Frogman
Brit Pack (Troop Commander)
Dams? :shock: You're joking, right?
Our solution is to just build big flood defences instead...
The Highway Man
Brit Pack 2I/C
Do I ever, that was the same night we lost Bill, when the bridge was washed away. That bridge only reopened in October last year!!!
story on the collapse here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-11531057
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8369934.stm
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I3BrigPvSk
The Viking
Capt Frogman
Brit Pack (Troop Commander)
Do I ever, that was the same night we lost Bill, when the bridge was washed away. That bridge only reopened in October last year!!!
Yep. New bridge is called Barker bridge (or similiar) is it not?
Not been over the new bridge yet, but I've driven past it a few times as it was being built.