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Post by whollygoats on Mar 24, 2019 5:15:31 GMT
I like how you catch on fast. Yes. Another of those pesky 500 year floods I've seen so much in my lifetime. I must be approaching my fourth millenium. It seems to me it wasn't even 26 years since the last sopping of the middle Mississippi Valley...
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Post by raspberrybullets on Mar 24, 2019 8:48:59 GMT
What I always find interesting is when flood prone areas are not even ready for once in a 100 year flood because it only happens once a century. As if a century is actually all that long! That's every few generations!
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Post by tangent on Mar 24, 2019 10:21:31 GMT
And statistically, you can have hundred year floods in consecutive years, it's just not very probable.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 24, 2019 19:26:10 GMT
Yes...statistically, you could. And then, statistically, many would expect that with several 100 year floods in a decade, then there might well be none for several centuries. But, statistically, they'd be wrong.
And, yes, Raz, the primary purpose of determining something like a 100- or 500-year flood plain is to assess and prepare for the damages that such flooding might impose upon property owners. Ergo, it is, basically, a measure of where humans might prefer to build, given the risks of flooding in that area. It is also an estimate, as there is really an insufficient database to accurately determine how often an area is flooded. Then, there are government agencies which indemnify those who stupidly build in areas well within 100 year flood zones (or less). This encourages stupid building where none should be happening at all (usually in the name of 'economic development' and/or the legislation to restrict such happening came in to being only after clueless property-owners had already built in stupid locations) and punishes taxpayers to reward stupid builders and encourage them to rebuild in stupid locations.
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 25, 2019 12:51:56 GMT
Um...it's extra floody. 1993 floody. They call them 500-year floods because they happen every 26 years, right? Every 26 years for 500 years!
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 25, 2019 12:55:37 GMT
They were building new houses on the edge of the flood plane near where I lived in Reading. Unsurprisingly, they were getting flooded before they'd finished building them! Not deep, more like coming through the back door and out the front.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 25, 2019 14:42:20 GMT
Heh...It does not require a flood plain for that.... I live no where near a flood plain. Indeed, I live on a slight slope. Still, I tell folks that they made a movie about my basement...."A River Runs Through It."
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Post by tangent on Mar 25, 2019 15:00:59 GMT
Modern houses in the UK (post circa 1950) do not normally have a basement.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 25, 2019 19:09:36 GMT
Yes. It has grown increasingly rare here, as well. Still my house is nearly 100 years old and is doing fairly well, regardless of the rain-fed springs coursing across the concrete basement floor.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Mar 26, 2019 8:54:50 GMT
Feels bit chilly today. It's definitely starting to feel autumny!
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Post by Mari on Mar 26, 2019 19:43:28 GMT
I'm very glad to have a cellar at least and would have loved a full basement.
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Post by tangent on Mar 26, 2019 20:07:03 GMT
Isn't a cellar the same as a basement?
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 26, 2019 21:33:28 GMT
Not in my parlance. A cellar doesn't have access from inside the house. One must go outdoors and open the door to the cellar and then go down. Whereas, a basement has an access with in internal stairwell.
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Post by Kye on Mar 26, 2019 22:27:32 GMT
I don't remember ever seeing a house where there was no internal access to the basement/cellar. Here the terms are interchangeable, but people mostly say basement.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 26, 2019 23:10:51 GMT
This on the ongoing 'controversy' from residential home inspectors. The house I grew up in, in Puddle City, had what was known as a full concrete basement. It had livable space. Indeed, my bedroom was always in the basement, along with the coal furnace, the washer and drier, and the toolbench. There was plenty of headroom. Our next door neighbor had a cellar. They had to go out their back door and down the back steps, go to the slanted cellar door and pull it up and out to open, then descend the stairs to a space under the house with concrete walls, but a dirt floor. The cellar was cramped overhead, with little headroom. More rural communities might have housing structures with 'concrete slab' floors, but outbuildings of rootcellars, away from the main house, built in to the ground and covered over with soil. This is where the victims of tornados might, with warning, take refuge underground.
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Post by Kye on Mar 27, 2019 1:25:31 GMT
Like in the Wizard of Oz!
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Post by Mari on Mar 27, 2019 11:07:55 GMT
Oh, my mistake then. We have a basement, but it's more like a walk in closet under the stairs, going below the house, but not running under the entirety of the house. I wish it did.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 31, 2019 23:56:26 GMT
Exquisite!
I turned off the furnace, threw open the doors, and spent a good deal of time in the garden. High temperature of 22 C. Top rate.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 1, 2019 9:04:46 GMT
We had quite the wintery weekend. I refused to go out Saturday at all and stayed in my pjs all day. Should be getting much nicer again for the rest of the week.
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Post by JoeP on Apr 1, 2019 9:09:50 GMT
Tis the changing of the seasons.
It's been sunny for at least 2 days in a row. I went out for a walk yesterday - although only 8,800 steps, short of the 10,000 you are supposed to do every day.
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Post by tangent on Apr 1, 2019 11:35:29 GMT
- although only 8,800 steps, short of the 10,000 you are supposed to do every day. You should be using a Samsung Galaxy S6. You only have to do 6,000 steps to reach your target with that phone
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Post by Mari on Apr 2, 2019 12:41:02 GMT
It was a lovely morning, but it's grey outside now with predicted rain storm and hail.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 2, 2019 15:24:09 GMT
Overcast and a misty dry rain.
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Post by Kye on Apr 2, 2019 17:52:22 GMT
It's bright and sunny here with temperatures a few degrees above freezing.
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Post by jayme on Apr 2, 2019 23:17:01 GMT
It was beautiful here today, but windy and a bit cool. I wished I had a sweater all day, as I wore a t-shirt and my winter coat to work. It was either freeze or toast, there was no in between.
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Post by tangent on Apr 4, 2019 12:37:34 GMT
Very cold, windy and wet. With wind chill, it feels like 2°C.
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Post by Kye on Apr 4, 2019 13:23:31 GMT
Bright and breezy here. Temperature -2 C. Typical April weather.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 4, 2019 15:40:09 GMT
Overcast and cool. Dry for the moment, though.
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Post by Mari on Apr 4, 2019 16:23:07 GMT
Dry and has been for a few days now. We go out for walks daily.
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Post by Kye on Apr 4, 2019 16:25:00 GMT
One good thing about a spring baby --you're not stuck in the house!
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