I think this was it, bigger than I remember but we were 150 ish miles away from the epicentre.
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We used to live on a drained salt marsh 300meters from the sea between two headlands. There were air raid style sirens on poles dotted about. When the rang you were supposed to run like hell away from the beach...
Peter
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But which Wellington? There are at least 4 in England alone and several more worldwide of which the New Zealand one is just the best known.
FWIW if the comment was about any of the English ones I would take it with more than a pinch of salt. England was first triangulated to a better accuracy than that during the mid 19th century. Wellington NZ perhaps. New Zealand is geologically unstable and given the Peter Ashby connection that could well have been the Wellington referred to.
If you knew anything about the accuracy of the OS 100+ years ago, it would be more of a surprise to you.
MBQ
It was ours too but the mortgage was paid off years ago.
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Something similar happened to a son - but he chose to live in a low-lying part of the country. And still does!
Mary
It would be impossible BUT we'd shrug and have a new challenge to meet. As long as there's no loss of life to people it's not really a problem. It would keep him away from mucky women :-)
Mary
I know about that. It's nothing like our situation.
Mary
There's no way ours could be flooded.
I have. I know what a son's house suffered. His wife was far more concerned about it that son, he's practical and knew it wasn't the end of the wrold.
- but loved ones as
Yes, that's awful but no amount of money would be compensation for that.
Contents I don't have. In 1985 it was costing me over £35 a month, so I stopped. Burglars are not likely to run off with my books, I have little else that I value and money could replace. I've saved enough on premiums over the years, I can afford to repair and redecorate without calling on an insurance co.
Yes, our library is precious - but only to us or specialists and many are irreplaceable no matter how much we were paid for them. We can afford to do any amount of repairs and renovations - in money that is. time is a different matter. There's still that hole in the bedroom ceiling after a leak in the loft :-)
Insurance companies like bookmakers set the odds in their favour But many people seem to have the attitude that having paid so much in premiums they should get that back in claims. Which makes for short odds. If you only need cover against a really big claim then most insurance policies, even with a big excess, a poor value.
I dread to think how premiums will rise for everybody after the claims for the recent damage.
Mary
You might have no choice if the public health lot declared the place unfit for habitation.
Which frankly, is pretty much what happens in these situations.
Houses HAVE to be rebuilt mostly..stuff that has been exposed to flood water is automatically condemned.
Water takes time to flow from where it starts to where it finishes.
Peak flow can be from an hour to a month after the rain..depending where in the river system you are situated, and how long a river it is..
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I had a look at that area on our radio coverage planning terrain database to other nite for a mate who lives nearby on the high ground but his daughter is right in the middle of that.
Some places were barely a metre or so above sea level and overall theres a lorra rocky high ground in that area and the toll bar area and Doncaster is where most of it will drain through;!.
You don't normally equate Yorkshire land heights with those much the same as the Fens!.......
Surely the filthy flood water and the lack of sanitation facilities would mean he was nearer mucky women!
I doubt any woman other than me would hang about :-) Women seem to be ery sensitive about such things. There are frequent threads on the caravanning ng about why women won't empty toilet cassettes ...
Mary
Many thanks. That's pretty low - and so far from the sea!
Look at the link below for a 1:25000 OS map of the area. The 5m contour line runs just to the east of Toll Bar. All the rain from the Peak District which flooded Sheffield over a week ago is still backing up the river and preventing the Ea Beck from draining into the River Don.
of the area.
There was a tv prog about 10 years ago that compared the surveying results of the OS in India against GPS. Even across a continent their accuracy was remarkable.
But often inaccurate compared to modern standards, your point was?
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Depends on which modern standards.
I suspect that if you looked into it you would find that the primary triangulation of India was extremely accurate even by today's survey standards which, in some respects, are not as good as they used to be.
The recent attempt to determine the true height of Foinaven, a peak in the far North of Scotland, is a case in point. The height was originally determined by levelling all the way from the other end of Britain at
2980 feet but was changed to 914 metres (2999 feet) when resurveyed for the new series of maps introduced from the late 60s onwards. This height was determined from stereoscopic photos, as are many of the heights on today's maps. In this particular instance it's closeness to the significant height of 3000 feet meant that there was much speculation about the exact height and eventually enough interest for a credible attempt to determine the real height using the latest gps technology which (unlike the handheld devices available to us mere mortals which could easily be 50 feet or more out in altitude) is sufficiently accurate for the job. The result was a height of 2988 feet, actually closer to the levelled height than the stereoscopic one.
That the OS acuracy in India "was remarkable" compared against GPS. What's GPS if not a modern standard?
What's your point?
MBQ
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