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"Mike" wrote in message
... , but should that happen then London would be devastated, and hence the whole country bankrupted, and don't you think that contingency plans are not in place? Do you think that everything is just nice and cosy and all tied up in London and that if/when something happens it will be a case of 'Don't panic Mr Mainwairing' and everyone will be running around like headless chickens? Fear not, emergency plans are already drawn up and ready for such an emergency. 24 hours or less and everything will be up and running . . . . .. . . . . . . . out of London of course. When I was with the GPO in the Midlands, one of the places was Royal Leamington Spa as the main HQ and when I was transferred to the Isle of Wight, I was actually working on the emergency planning side of the telephone system and you would be rather surprised at where one of the units on the Island was!! AND who were going to be involved and 'protected' in the case of a Nuke attack!! OK that was in the 60's and 70's, but I am quite certain the plans are still in place. only a more modern set!! Mike A lot depends on psychology - if some official ignores it then the chain stops there. How long was it before fighter/interceptor planes were launched on 9/11 ?No conspiracy - just someone not believing what they were hearing. What they aren't telling you about DNA profiles and what Special Branch don't want you to know. http://www.nutteing.50megs.com/dnapr.htm or nutteingd in a search engine Valid email (remove 4 of the 5 dots) Ignore any other apparent em address used to post this message - it is defunct due to spam. |
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:38:21 +0000 (UTC), Mike wrote:
Anyone without a stout pair of Wellington boots. Depending where you live, it might be thigh boots :-)) Think I'll go for razor wire, a few shot guns and lots of ammo. If a tsunami gets us then there isn't going to be much left of Europe let alone the UK. -- Cheers Dave. Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL. pam is missing e-mail |
"Charlie" wrote in message ... Mike wrote: Oh no! something else to be frightened about! Where do you differentiate between "frightened of" and "aware of" ? It's pretty old news regurgitated. I wonder where you differentiate between being someone being serious and someone having a laugh :) Charlie -- www.peartreegreen.org No point in bothering about the garden anymore then ? suppose we could make a water feature of it. john .m |
"Mike" wrote ... The nearest tectonic plates not talking plate movement, but big chucks of rock. Falling from the sky or falling off the Canaries in one lump? -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:55:52 -0000, Bob Hobden wrote:
not talking plate movement, but big chucks of rock. Falling from the sky or falling off the Canaries in one lump? Both. -- Cheers Dave. pam is missing e-mail |
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tsunami gets us then there isn't going to be much left of Europe let alone the UK. ..... At least the plants will get wattered ;-) I'm getting back on topic again, I apologise. |
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The main risk is the big piece of rock which is expected to fall off an island in the Canaries, generate a tidal wave that will wipe out the East Coats of the USA and not do a lot of good to the low countries. Atlantic City - no harm there Philadelphia - ditto New York - a tragedy |
not talking plate movement, but big chucks of rock. Falling from the sky or falling off the Canaries in one lump? -- The latter |
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:58:51 +0000, Douglas wrote:
..... At least the plants will get wattered ;-) Lack of rain isn't normally a problem up here either, Jul to Dec 2004 inches per month: 2, 9, 3, 6, 3, 4. -- Cheers Dave. pam is missing e-mail |
wrote in message ... On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:09:33 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote: The main risk is the big piece of rock which is expected to fall off an island in the Canaries, generate a tidal wave that will wipe out the East Coats of the USA and not do a lot of good to the low countries. Apparently a tsunami hit the west coast of Ireland in 1775 ? after a seismic event near the Azores and Canaries causing some considerable damage.. -- Chris Thomas West Cork Ireland |
wrote in message ... On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:39:19 +0000, (gp) wrote: wrote: The main risk is the big piece of rock which is expected to fall off an island in the Canaries, generate a tidal wave that will wipe out the East Coast of the USA and not do a lot of good to the low countries. Atlantic City - no harm there Philadelphia - ditto New York - a tragedy Good bye Florida and brother Bush? Not all bad news then. -- Brian Henry Fielding: "All Nature wears one universal grin" |
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writes wrote in message .. . On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:09:33 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote: The main risk is the big piece of rock which is expected to fall off an island in the Canaries, generate a tidal wave that will wipe out the East Coats of the USA and not do a lot of good to the low countries. Apparently a tsunami hit the west coast of Ireland in 1775 ? after a seismic event near the Azores and Canaries causing some considerable damage.. I believe that was the earthquake and tsunami that wiped out Lisbon. -- June Hughes |
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wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:09:33 -0000, "Bob Hobden" wrote: "Mike" wrote ... What are the views of those on uk.rec.gardening if it happens, and who will it effect? The nearest tectonic plates to us are in the N.Atlantic and are divergent boundaries causing the N.Atlantic Ridge, because these plates are pulling apart there is little chance of a tsunami being caused. The plate boundaries in S E Asia are convergent which is why they suddenly moved 100 ft over one another, when they overcame the friction between themselves, causing the waves. I would be more worried about the effects of the change in the earths rotation caused by this earthquake. The main risk is the big piece of rock which is expected to fall off an island in the Canaries, generate a tidal wave that will wipe out the East Coats of the USA and not do a lot of good to the low countries. You may be right that divergent plates will cause less of a shock wave than convergent ones, but I should be flabberghasted if they couldn't cause enough of one to cause trouble, given the shallowing and focussing of the Channel. Without doing some precise modelling, I can't say what effects that would have on the UK, but it is relatively unlikely to be a major event. Probably not more than 100,000 dead. However, it is NOT true that the UK is safe from earthquakes. There have been some Richter 5+ events on the mainland (including one that killed two people, our only deaths), but there has been a Richter 6.0 under the Dogger bank. If that occurred under London, the carnage could be immense, and it is not completely impossible. But it is pretty unlikely. However, the most likely cause of water-borne carnage is a certainty in the next century or so, but our wonderful government is attempting (and failing) to hide it using terrorism legislation. Probably so that they can say "But we couldn't POSSIBLY have known" and the resulting enquiry will acquit them of all negligence. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
In article , Mike wrote:
, but should that happen then London would be devastated, and hence the whole country bankrupted, and don't you think that contingency plans are not in place? I know that they aren't. They were a bit ricketty when the Blessed Margaret took over, so she abolished the mechanism for maintaining them. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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