On Monday, February 3, 2014 11:13:19 AM UTC, Joe Egginton wrote:
On 03/02/2014 09:07, Malcolm wrote:



In article ,

Weatherlawyer writes

On Sunday, 2 February 2014 23:22:17 UTC, Joe Egginton wrote:

A 30ft sinkhole has swallowed a car in High Wycombe, from the photos



there's no water at the bottom so it can't be an underground stream. I



don't think there's any mines around there. So what caused the sink

hole?







http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-26010192



Fairly common in any severe volcanic spell.

Usually in such spells there is also a plethora of flood stories.

The rest, as they say, is natural history.



They may or may not occur where there are volcanoes, but that is surely

irrelevant in 21st century High Wycombe! The two commonest causes are

old mine workings and the dissolving of limestone or sometimes sandstone

by the action of water.





I'm no geologist, thinking about it rationally.

The weight of the clay probably has something do with it. Limestone

being porous there must be more air in it, than clay which can soak up

water like a sponge. The limestone may have been compressed. Also, the

heavy clay on top of the limestone, will raise the water pressure going

through the limestone.

Or it's an old chalk mine, as Mike's link said. shakes head

On Monday, 3 February 2014 07:24:50 UTC, vidcapper wrote:
On 02/02/2014 23:32, Weatherlawyer wrote:

On Sunday, 2 February 2014 23:22:17 UTC, Joe Egginton wrote:

A 30ft sinkhole has swallowed a car in High Wycombe, from the photos
there's no water at the bottom so it can't be an underground stream.
I don't think there's any mines around there. So what caused the sink hole?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-26010192

Fairly common in any severe volcanic spell.

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner...les&gsc.page=1

Since when have there been any volcanoes in Bucks?

If you were Dawlish you'd actually be challenging me in about as threatening a manner as it is possible for a eunuch to suggest. Since you had more sense and restrained yourself, I shall limit my reply to the above.
You can search for the required volcanoes from there, I am sure.

If you must insist on being cynical desist from overt gayity, please.

On Monday, 3 February 2014 09:07:22 UTC, a sock in sheep's clothing wrote:


Fairly common in any severe volcanic spell.
Usually in such spells there is also a plethora of flood stories.
The rest, as they say, is natural history.

They may or may not occur where there are volcanoes, but that is surely
irrelevant in 21st century High Wycombe!

(Averse as I am to responding to Dawlish, it is a fair enough question. If only he'd learn to ask properly.)

The relevance is real enough, you clod. You may believe in coriolis effect but it doesn't believe in you.

A volcano spell is one where the gyres of the planet run to ground. I will let you think about that and where it would take you if you had enough brain cells to think about anything. Prove you are not Dawlish and come up with the answer and not a gay fade away, you posturing nance.

On Monday, February 3, 2014 9:12:57 PM UTC, Malcolm wrote:
In article ,

Weatherlawyer writes

On Monday, 3 February 2014 09:07:22 UTC, a sock in sheep's clothing wrote:





Fairly common in any severe volcanic spell.

Usually in such spells there is also a plethora of flood stories.

The rest, as they say, is natural history.



They may or may not occur where there are volcanoes, but that is surely

irrelevant in 21st century High Wycombe!



(Averse as I am to responding to Dawlish, it is a fair enough question.

If only he'd learn to ask properly.)



The relevance is real enough, you clod. You may believe in coriolis

effect but it doesn't believe in you.



A volcano spell is one where the gyres of the planet run to ground. I

will let you think about that and where it would take you if you had

enough brain cells to think about anything. Prove you are not Dawlish

and come up with the answer and not a gay fade away, you posturing nance..



It seems to be a rule of the internet that if someone cannot answer a

question, cannot justify a claim, or is suffering from an inadequacy

complex, then they invariably resort to completely uncalled for childish

name-calling and ad hominem.



I leave you to decide which failing you are suffering from that has

stopped you responding politely to me.



--

Malcolm

The poster is a nutcase who actually believes larry when larry says you are me (and that I am apparently several others). Larry, on the other hand, appears to have given up with that idea. I just ignore this one, these days, as he has clear mental health problems, but he appears utterly obsessed with me, mentioning me in post after post that have nothing to do with me. It's weird.

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
...

A volcano spell is one where the gyres of the planet run to ground. I will
let you think about that and where it would take you if you had enough brain
cells to think about anything. Prove you are not Dawlish and come up with
the answer and not a gay fade away, you posturing nance.
=================================

Well that's a disappointingly feeble attempt at a verbal insult for someone
usually adept at a much more Joycean turn of phrase. But you're right, gyres
are very much a topic of the moment:

http://goo.gl/PrNckl

Afraid you'll have to put up with a mention of the dreaded C word though.

On 02/02/2014 23:22, Joe Egginton wrote:
A 30ft sinkhole has swallowed a car in High Wycombe, from the photos
there's no water at the bottom so it can't be an underground stream. I
don't think there's any mines around there. So what caused the sink hole?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-26010192


I saw the pictures on TV tonight. There was (half) a ring of stones at
the edge of of the hole, so I'm guessing that might have been a manhole
cover. If so, manhole leaks, water from leak percolates into the clay
over a number of years, waterlogged clay seeps away through limestone,
hole is created, oops.

jim, Northampton

On Monday, 3 February 2014 22:29:23 UTC, another sock wrote:

Well that's a disappointingly feeble attempt at a verbal insult for someone
usually adept at a much more Joycean turn of phrase. But you're right, gyres
are very much a topic of the moment:

http://goo.gl/PrNckl

Afraid you'll have to put up with a mention of the dreaded C word though.

It actually starts off with a nonse one:

"Because the oceans cover some 71% of the Earth's surface and are capable of retaining heat around a thousand times that of the atmosphere, the oceans are where most of the energy from global warming is going..."

Or were you too dawlish to realise it?

While the temperatures of the ocean surfaces at or very near the equator are extremely important when there is little or no wind shear, temperatures further from zero latitude tend to translate into pressure rather more readily.

So any talk about global warming goes out the window in the tropics.
Now martial your particulates and get a life, soldier!

On 03/02/2014 20:32, Weatherlawyer wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-26010192

Fairly common in any severe volcanic spell.

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner...les&gsc.page=1

Since when have there been any volcanoes in Bucks?

If you were Dawlish you'd actually be challenging me in about as threatening a manner as it is possible for a eunuch to suggest. Since you had more sense and restrained yourself, I shall limit my reply to the above.
You can search for the required volcanoes from there, I am sure.

If you must insist on being cynical desist from overt gayity, please.

I employ neither overt nor covert 'gayity', since I am not gay.

--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

On 04/02/2014 08:03, Vidcapper wrote:
On 03/02/2014 20:32, Weatherlawyer wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-26010192

Fairly common in any severe volcanic spell.

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner...les&gsc.page=1


Since when have there been any volcanoes in Bucks?

If you were Dawlish you'd actually be challenging me in about as
threatening a manner as it is possible for a eunuch to suggest. Since
you had more sense and restrained yourself, I shall limit my reply to
the above.
You can search for the required volcanoes from there, I am sure.

If you must insist on being cynical desist from overt gayity, please.

I employ neither overt nor covert 'gayity', since I am not gay.


But you're happy sometimes, unless you're Victor Meldew. ;-)

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 08:03:24 UTC, vidcapper wrote:

I employ neither overt or covert 'gayity', since I am not gay.
Paul "happy" Hyett, Cheerybottom.

I didn't say you were. I was just warning you about being dawlish. Speaking of of that idiot, when I told Alistair he was in the same boat as Dawlish, I wasn't telling him he was actually in a boat. I was just informing him that he isn't looking at his immediate surroundings very often nor with efficacy.

It's one thing to be interested in one's environment, it is another to become enraged about what is going on. A gentle ****-take will accomplish so much more if directed well enough. But wouldn't you rather get a grip on what is actually going on?

Dismissing major indications that things are not right, just because others do too is somewhat gay.

Of course, there is a lot of fun to be had at Dawlish's expense if we can proceed in a manner that will ensure he doesn't kill himself or his socks too soon. I have no objection to him killing himself of course. If he ever wakes up he may decide that would be the best way out.