A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

I doubt it - this is all part of a campaign to make people aware of flooding
risk that has occured around this time of year for the past three or so
years now. As part of the campaign I know they're also putting beer mats in
pubs in East Yorkshire with a similar message although it has been alleged
in the event of flooding the beer won't be any less watered down than it is
now....

Regards,
Far

"Alan White" wrote in message
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A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

Alan White wrote:
A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...

A bit of rain certainly wouldn't go amiss. The water level in the Stour
had dropped again when I walked by it today.

Jonathan
Canterbury

Yep true.. though we dont want a deluge.. the ground is so hard the rain
will just run off and cause floods :-)

Jim
Bournemouth
"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
...
Alan White wrote:
A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...

A bit of rain certainly wouldn't go amiss. The water level in the Stour
had dropped again when I walked by it today.

Jonathan
Canterbury

A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...

Not a lot. I saw the advert. The street in the photograph has quite a
slope on it so is unlikely to be at risk from flooding. But the idea of
publicising a warning is sound. Flood plains are given that name for a reason.
"River, stay 'way from my door".

Tudor Hughes, in unfloodable Warlingham, Surrey.

In uk.sci.weather on Tue, 14 Oct 2003 at 18:20:34, Jonathan Stott wrote
:

A bit of rain certainly wouldn't go amiss. The water level in the Stour
had dropped again when I walked by it today.

The river Chelt is hardly large, but the flow now is so minimal it is
getting choked with water weed so we need a substantial volume of rain
to flush it through.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

Email to pahyett[AT]activist[DOT]demon[DOT]co[DOT]uk

"Alan White" wrote in message
...
A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...

--

the Environoment agency, (the bit of it that used to be the NRA) work on
long timescales as is appropriate for someone worried about this sort of
thing. The decision to run a public information campaign might have been
decided over a year ago. On the other hand someone might be worried about
how hard the ground is and what might happen if the drought broke with a few
heavy downpours.

Jim Webster

"Alan White" wrote in message
...
A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/55v3

Here's an extract from yesterday's Mirror ["Flood Peril", October 14,
2003, p. 25].

Mirror SEVERE floods will be five times more common in Britain
Mirror by the end of the century, weather experts predicted yesterday.
Mirror
Mirror Global warming from could trigger "extreme rainfall" every
Mirror four to five years and leave those living in coastal areas
Mirror or by rivers at risk, they warned.
Mirror
Mirror In autumn 2000, freak rain hit York, Shrewsbury, and Lewes,
Mirror flooding homes and leaving roads under water.
Mirror
Mirror Met Office climate prediction expert Dr Richard Jones said:
Mirror "Such extreme winter rainfall will become ever more likely
Mirror over the next 100 years."
Mirror
Mirror Copyright 2003 MGN Ltd.

It seems that Dr Richard Jones of the Met Office is expecting rain

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.

Perhaps it's for March, when the huge accumulations of winter snow
melt in the early spring sunshine....

Horse bolted after........



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A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...