Now I Know How Noah Felt

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somehow the idea of using the tube in an unusually flooded area doesn't appeal!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Knackers.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

What, as in 'Gippos'?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ed does not realises that the river Fleet once flowed at the bottom of our street, and shall once again if it keeps raining... however, we're on the first floor so we shall merely laugh. Quite quietly, as we'll have no leckie.

― kate, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

We're about 10 metres above the level of the fleet, even at the front door. I feel safe.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

you remember what used to happen to the yard at the Greys Inn Building... and that was in non-flood years! The River Fleet shall burst its banks and flow once more, you will see... ::adopts prophet stance::

(Ed, currently cooking at the stove is wondering what I am looking all smug and pious about)

― kate, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

and yea the thames shall rise and all camden basin shall wail and rend their pashminas, for the dust and filth of years shall be swept before the floods as chaff before the winnowing rod

this i dremt

― mark s, yr of our lord 2003 (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought this thread was going to be about pairs of animals converging on your flat.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

MARK S IS A PRINCE AMONG MEN. "all camden basin shall wail and rend their pashminas" HAHAHAHAHA!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have two cats. And I live on top of a hill.

― Mrs Noah (C J), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

i live in the north west and am laughing at you all.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

i am laughing at michael;)

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

I live in Scotland and I am freezing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

But I live in Crouch End and I am also freezing.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Freezing here in Putney. Over and out.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Strangely in Clerkenwell its 28C and I'm sunning myself on the windowsill.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

i am laughing at gareth's tie.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

must surely be freezing in Oxfordshire too - have not these flooded streets now turned into a giant ice rink?

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

the flooded tubes have turned into giant popsicles!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Ed did not noticed when I turned the heating well up in order to dry my clothes on the radiator... provoking long discussion about the best way to dry clothes... we can have IL* chatter in real time!)

― kate, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Freezing in Brighton. At least I do not live on (or IN, as it often was) the Lewes flood plain any more.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

''must surely be freezing in Oxfordshire too - have not these flooded streets now turned into a giant ice rink?''

if that's true then grebt!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

-6 degrees in Oxfordshire, Brrrrrr.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

now that the railway line twixt Didcot & Oxford is no longer actually flooded, can we assume that any delays are being blamed on the "wrong type of ice"?

Our water feature isn't working this morning. Not sure whether it has frozen up or has just been switched off so it *doesn't* freeze up.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Breaking news on the Today programme this morning: exhaustive (and fascinating) experiments with two bird baths proved, live on air, that hot water DOES freeze faster than cold, so we shouldn't put it in our bird baths in the hope of warming our little feathered friends. World-shaking.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

bird bath + cold weather = bent beaks

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hot water freezes quicker than cold water becoz when it is hot more of it evaporates hence there is less water to freeze when the tempteratures equalize!

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't think that is not the reason, Pete. It is actually warm, not hot water, that freezes fastest. I followed this on the back page of the New Scientist for a while. I think the best reason I read was that cold water freezes too quickly on top, forming a cell that insulates the rest of the water.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Strike 'not' from the first sentence above, sense fans.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

there was also loads of stuff in new scientist about those weird spikes that water in saucers sometimes has when it freezes

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Has anyone heard that Australian guy on late night Radio 5 who answers questions on any scientific subject on the spot. He's brilliant, and has no links to far right politics that I know of!

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

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