So I might lose my house...

[coffeejo]

Seems that the residents of my childhood stomping teenage drinking grounds in Aberystwyth have been advised to leave their homes.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/wales-weather-new-severe-flood-6463957

 

[ColinJ]

Well, perhaps the experts here decided that erring on the side of caution was better than ending up with a L'Aquila earthquake scenario!

 

[SteCenturion]

So the cabinet held a COBRA meeting over the weather - I can imagine how this panned out.
Cameron walks up Downing street with his TART Clegg holding his Clutch bag for him & enters No10 where the Geriatric Fraudsters eagerly await.
"Gentlemen, gentlemen, I gentlemen" says Mr speaker (formerly an advocate of Apartheid).
& so it begins.
Various MEMBERS have their say.
"This weather system was inherited from previous Government" blah blah burble.
"I would like to forward a motion for a change of title from COBRA to PYTHON as it is a much bigger snake (phnaar-phnarr) & would make us all Bigger MEMBERS"
"Hoo-rah - jolly spiffing old chap"
"What about MAMBER" ? says the right Dishonourable Minister for Hampstead Heath.
"No, No, No, No, burble, burble, fart" - "that would make us MAMBER MEMBERS".
"It would never do".
"And a 12% pay rise for all MEMBERS is in order, as sitting around a table discussing Wincey Willis is jolly dangerous work"
"Hoo-rah - hoo-rah, so we are all agreed then" ?
"May we have a new working title for the back benchers too" ?
"Yes we may Councillor Whip-Lash".
"They may be MAGGOTS"
"Not nearly as BIG MEMBERS"
"Now, says Mr Speaker - "who's turn is it for The Gimp Mask" ??

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I am currently watching some idiot reporter standing next to a harbour wall...yes, you twonks, the water comes over walls quite a lot throughout the year. Coastal communities get on with it, or at least they used to, before you sodding urban twonks moved there cos it looked pretty, tried to impose your cosy suburban life onto a new environment and whipped it into a frenzy

 

[vernon]

Well, perhaps the experts here decided that erring on the side of caution was better than ending up with a L'Aquila earthquake scenario!

No need to err on the side of caution. The Prestatyn flood alert was not apocalyptic.

The following Flood Warning will remain in force for two hours after the time of high tide. The high tide at Prestatyn is at 12:00 GMT on Friday 3rd January 2014. At Prestatyn the tide level is expected to reach 5.67 metres above Ordnance Datum. Wave overtopping at the promenade/sea front is expected to occur between 11:30 GMT and 14:00 GMT. The properties closest to the promenade/sea front are most at risk.

 

[SteCenturion]

That's of no interest to those of us eagerly awaiting @Matthew_T's report on the Prestatyn catastrophe from the inundated approach roads from Chester.

I anticipate a flood of sympathetic postings attempting to comfort him after his anticlimactic trauma.

He got his trauma Vernon as the River Dee burst its banks today - watering large parts of Chester.

 

[vernon]

He got his trauma Vernon as the River Dee burst its banks today - watering large parts of Chester.

After a dozen pints I could water large parts of Chester.

 

[ColinJ]

No need to err on the side of caution. The Prestatyn flood alert was not apocalyptic.

I meant that they issued a warning which turned out not to have been needed, rather than thinking it was probably not needed but risk having something nasty happen to the unsuspecting residents.

 

[vernon]

I meant that they issued a warning which turned out not to have been needed, rather than thinking it was probably not needed but risk having something nasty happen to the unsuspecting residents.

And I quoted the warning which stated the flood risk was much less than the one Matthew_T claimed.

 

[rich p]

If Matthew deserves this thread ridicule, is it karma out there now?

 

[Matthew_T]

We had a look at the sea before we went to Chester (this was at exactly 12 midday). The waves were almost breaching the flood defence at the Beaches Hotel.

(It was at the bottom of the concrete barrier).

The sea level tonight should be another 0.5 metres higher than midday tide. So it is possible that there will be flooding. Probably not to the extent that I get affected though.

 

[ufkacbln]

Don't put your bike in the car down on ground level, put it in your bedroom where it should live!

Have you ever stayed in a B&B in Ayr?

 

[subaqua]

After a dozen pints I could water large parts of Chester.

I have - several times as a drunk youth.

 

[vernon]

Have you ever stayed in a B&B in Ayr?

I'm sure that @deptfordmarmoset wouldn't have to travel to Ayr to commune with his bike.

 

[vernon]

We had a look at the sea before we went to Chester (this was at exactly 12 midday). The waves were almost breaching the flood defence at the Beaches Hotel.

(It was at the bottom of the concrete barrier).

The sea level tonight should be another 0.5 metres higher than midday tide. So it is possible that there will be flooding. Probably not to the extent that I get affected though.

You'll be fine. I've been commissioned to come down to Prestatyn, drink Guinness, have a chicken chop suey, a beef vindaloo and stand on the seafront facing inland to blow seawards and repel the waves. It's a terrible job but someone had to do it.