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not that I mind, I like the color brown. But everyone else I talks to hates the desert. yet they live here for some reason... idiots.
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In Ventura County, officials closed the small Santa Paula airport Tuesday after more than 155 feet of runway collapsed into the rushing Santa Clara River. Chunks of concrete continued to crumble into the water throughout the day.
"We've lost nearly the entire west third of the airport," said Rowena Mason, president of the Santa Paula Airport Association. "This is millions and millions of dollars worth of damage."No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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here's our cemetary. good thing the bodies have't started floating away.
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Ah... another sunny day in the Pacific Northwest.
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Santa Paula is built in a very narrow valley and just about every bit of flat land there is part of the active flood plain. Who ever authorised a town to be built there should be shot. BTW the most rain in 115 years isn't just LA but for all of Southern California. They're saying that based upon expected storms we should top the 115 year old record and make it the most since Spanish missionaries started taking rain fall data in the 18th century.Last edited by Dinner; February 23, 2005, 17:50.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I hope you bastards burn in hell.Originally posted by joncha
Ah... another sunny day in the Pacific Northwest.
Seriously it was hard for my girlfriend and I to take a romantic after dinner walk on the beach with all of this rain.
Cry me a freeking river about the rain. Try living in England.
So you're telling me England frequently floods and has massive mudslides where houses and even airports just float away?Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Our records only go back about 100 years. But we officially have the wettest winter (November through Feburary) on record.Originally posted by Oerdin
Santa Paula is built in a very narrow valley and just about every bit of flat land their is part of the active flood plain. Who ever authorised a town to be built there should be shot. BTW the most rain in 115 years isn't just LA but for all of Southern California. They're saying that based upon expected storms we should top the 115 year old record and make it the most since Spanish missionaries started taking rain fall data in the 18th century.Comment
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I was out in california where I hear they have it all
They got riots, fires, mud slides
They’ve got sushi in the mall
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Most of those Spanish missionaries were bastards but they did keep very nice records on temperatures and rainfall totals.Originally posted by Dissident
Our records only go back about 100 years. But we officially have the wettest winter (November through Feburary) on record.
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Well, aside from the village of Boscastle nearly being washed away last year, it's estimated that 5 million people in the UK live in flood risk areas. We didn't have the luxury of building our cities in deserts after all, we built them along rivers or, later, canals. Also, no point in the UK is further than 200 miles from the ocean (Atlantic) or the North Sea. Reports of major flooding goes back 800 yearsOriginally posted by Oerdin
Cry me a freeking river about the rain. Try living in England.
So you're telling me England frequently floods and has massive mudslides where houses and even airports just float away?
There have been huge investments in the Thames Barrier to make sure the City of London doesn't end up underwater one day. That said, in my town of Felixstowe, everyone is just more or less waiting for the seaside section of the town to be wiped away. The sea defenses built since the last big flood in the 50's won't stop a determined storm and we've got nothing to stop the Rivers Deben and Orwell if they break their banks.
So, yes, England frequently floods. Thank the gods that someone decided to make the main flood defense (the Thames Barrier for London) nice looking as well as functional.
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oh cry me a river england isnt worse of than the netherlands if we are talking about rain and water...i think more than 40% of the country is BELOW sealevel...and like 3 of the biggest rivers of europe end up in the netherlands...
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Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
oh cry me a river england isnt worse of than the netherlands if we are talking about rain and water...i think more than 40% of the country is BELOW sealevel...and like 3 of the biggest rivers of europe end up in the netherlands...
So who decided to go and build there ?
The Dutch.
Don't complain if no one else wanted you.
In any case, Great Britain had some fairly severe flooding in the North West in January, and as Starchild mentioned, Boscastle in Cornwall experienced an extremely unpleasant flood recently. North West Wales had severe flooding a few years ago, as did Yorkshire.
Parts of the North East coast of England are being eaten away by the North Sea, and as anyone who has been to places like Aldeburgh or Dungeness can tell you, on high tide in wintertime with the wind rising, it seems very flat and very exposed and makes alpine living look a wise choice.
The issue wasn't in any case does Great Britain have it worst of all (Bangladesh can beat the Netherlands and California and Great Britain for flood damage) but does Great Britain experience bad flooding on a scale comparable to California.
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Starchild: most cities in California aren't in the desert but are on the coastal plain where the weather and climate are about the same as Italy. The desert is over the mountains in the southeast part of the state.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Yeah but compared to us, Italy is also desert.
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