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Old April 7th 06, 02:01 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default BBC News | Science/Nature | Extreme London flood investigated

On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:21:44 +0100, Gianna
adminatbuchandashmeteodotorgdotuk wrote:


"The Environment Agency stressed that the latest simulations show that
London is adequately protected by its flood defences."

6,5 million GBP well spent then.
Step one: create a situation which breaches the defences.
Step two: pronounce the defences are therefore adequate.
Step three: kerching!


This sounds very much like like a quote from the Governer of Louisiana
just after they did a similar simulation on New Orleans, a couple of
years ago...

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Dave