Michelin Arctic Alpins

[Lawrence C Leung]

Glad you made it!!!

LL - NY

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:35:12 -0000 "Jim Haseltine"
<Jim at ur-q.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <isham-research.freeserve.co.uk at pop.pol.net.uk>;
><quk at isham-research.freeserve.co.uk>
>>
>> We're in the middle of a monsoon here in the UK.  The flood waters 
>in
>> many places (York, for instance) are higher than they've been for 
>four
>> hundred years - many places are recording rainfall records being
>> blown completely away.
>
>Although the fair city of York has suffered 90mm of rain in the past 
>week,
>its my opinion that some blame for the record levels in the city must 
>be
>laid
>at the door of the city council. There are a couple of areas of the 
>city
>that
>have flooded nearly every year since the Romans built the fort of 
>Ebvracvm
>in AD72 and consequently the housing in those areas is cheap. Using 
>the
>equation Flooded Houses = P*ssed off people = fewer votes = no job,
>the council 'improved' the flood defences in those areas. Water that 
>would
>normally spread out to cover a square mile to a depth of 2-3 feet had 
>to go
>somewhere and last Friday night that somewhere was my street (which 
>until
>recently was the responsibility of another council so didn't matter).
>Although
>the water stopped 6inches from the critical point so that none of my 
>cars
>were
>damaged, my house didn't get away Scott-free, as the water had leaked 
>into
>the air space below the ground floor and now the scent of it drying 
>out has
>to be smelt to be believed.
>The army are patrolling the area in KFOR vehicles and the police 
>presence is
>much higher than normal.
>MAC. The owner of the most badly flooded house in my street is on 
>vacation
>so we had to move his wife's car, a silver A3. If we had left it where 
>it
>was, it would have been flooded up to the windows.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Jim Haseltine
>
>