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  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    AndyG said:
    The fact is we are on a course to disaster as a planet. That is 100% given. The trouble is very few of us are willing to change our lives enough to slow it down globally.

    That isnt over reacting it's cold hard facts, not in our lifetime perhaps but certainly within the next 100 years
    You’re 100% right. That’s why we need a government that will actually take drastic steps, and change our behaviours. (eg two holidays flights a year only.)

    It probably will be in our lifetimes, even us ‘seniors’, and action needs to be taken now. Problem is, governments are short term, and they’d rather spend money on tax cuts or services. 
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,018
    Well it has just started to rain in Petts Wood.  Sirting outside with a cold beer :)
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    @Hex is our weather version of Covid Clive.

    loving the updates 
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,290
    That makes Clive sound like Typhoid Mary AFKA!
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Seen a lot of sarcasm last couple of days from toughies about snowflakes, coping with the heat etc. Don’t mind admitting I’ve found the last couple of days at home very difficult to work through and it’s had a clear effect.

    I’m generally fit and never sleep during the day, yet I was asleep at lunchtime on Sunday, within 5 mins of finishing work yesterday I’d fallen asleep, slept fine through the night yet after I dropped my son off this morning I then fell asleep twice when I got home, waking up at 9.20 when I should have started work an hour earlier. Got through today and then fell asleep for 45 mins again as soon as I’d finished this afternoon. Just feel groggy and like it’s drained everything out of me. If it’s hitting me like that, what the hell must it be doing to the elderly and vulnerable? 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484



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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    Callumcafc said:
    Did they have these flash fires in 1976?
    A couple of them were a bit loud and lairy, but flash is bit OTT 😉
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    AFKABartram said:
    Seen a lot of sarcasm last couple of days from toughies about snowflakes, coping with the heat etc. Don’t mind admitting I’ve found the last couple of days at home very difficult to work through and it’s had a clear effect.

    I’m generally fit and never sleep during the day, yet I was asleep at lunchtime on Sunday, within 5 mins of finishing work yesterday I’d fallen asleep, slept fine through the night yet after I dropped my son off this morning I then fell asleep twice when I got home, waking up at 9.20 when I should have started work an hour earlier. Got through today and then fell asleep for 45 mins again as soon as I’d finished this afternoon. Just feel groggy and like it’s drained everything out of me. If it’s hitting me like that, what the hell must it be doing to the elderly and vulnerable? 
    You are the elderly 😉 
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    DaveMehmet said:
    ValleyGary said:
    I got a bottle of water from the little shop at the station this morning and glanced at the papers, where The Scum had 43c plastered on the front…
    43c? Must have been for the American market.
    You’d be hard pressed to find anyone in the US who could tell you what 43c is. 
  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,595
    AFKABartram said:
    Seen a lot of sarcasm last couple of days from toughies about snowflakes, coping with the heat etc. Don’t mind admitting I’ve found the last couple of days at home very difficult to work through and it’s had a clear effect.

    I’m generally fit and never sleep during the day, yet I was asleep at lunchtime on Sunday, within 5 mins of finishing work yesterday I’d fallen asleep, slept fine through the night yet after I dropped my son off this morning I then fell asleep twice when I got home, waking up at 9.20 when I should have started work an hour earlier. Got through today and then fell asleep for 45 mins again as soon as I’d finished this afternoon. Just feel groggy and like it’s drained everything out of me. If it’s hitting me like that, what the hell must it be doing to the elderly and vulnerable? 
    Lots of fluids, a wet towel around you etc. The reason you feel tired is during the heat your body is using up it's energy to stop you overheating.
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  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    JamesSeed said:
    AndyG said:
    The fact is we are on a course to disaster as a planet. That is 100% given. The trouble is very few of us are willing to change our lives enough to slow it down globally.

    That isnt over reacting it's cold hard facts, not in our lifetime perhaps but certainly within the next 100 years
    You’re 100% right. That’s why we need a government that will actually take drastic steps, and change our behaviours. (eg two holidays flights a year only.)

    It probably will be in our lifetimes, even us ‘seniors’, and action needs to be taken now. Problem is, governments are short term, and they’d rather spend money on tax cuts or services. 
    Get you with your two holiday flights per year limit being a "drastic step"!
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    Gribbo said:
    palarsehater said:
    yep im on a trading estate in crayford and seriously smokey out the front and the smell is awful looks to be coming from behind crayford sainsburys 
    Dartford Heath alight by all accounts mate
    Was there from the start, not fun in that heat especially as it isn't somewhere I expect to get called to.  Long way from my home station.  The staff from Conway recycling plant looked after us with cold drinks and even helped run out the hose.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    SELR_addicks said:
    eaststandmike said:
    ME14addick said:
    carly burn said:
    Sky News is amongst the very worst of doom mongerers in this country.
    They have been showing the same loop of the Wennington fire for over 3 hours now and nothing else.
    They are desperate for this fire to spread across London and create a modern day Armageddon!
    It needs to be shown so that those who keep downplaying the effects of Climate Change can see what we're facing.
    It is not just climate change, we have had a dry hot summer so far and grass dries out. Plenty of instances of forest fires all over the country in years gone bye, sadly caused by nature, a stray fag butt, disposable BBQ's, littered glass bottles & dickheads having a laugh. 

    Yes its been a hot couple of days, yes the high temps are probably down to climate change but you cannot pin everything on it, accidents, nature and dickheads have been around for a long time and will continue to be so.  
    An oxymoron if ever I have heard one. 

    Yes, the majority of fires are man-made. However, the reason they require 30 fire engines-plus to sort out today is because of the heat and speed at which these fires spread due to the weather (and therefore climate change). 
    My point is that we are in July, which as we all know is a summer month. I am 64 and as long as I can remember the grass becomes dormant and dries out in June, July and August and therefore becomes more of a fire risk. 

    Our history books in the UK are littered with field/forest fires from the New Forest to the glens in Scotland some long before kids could spell climate change 
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,728
    Off_it said:
    JamesSeed said:
    AndyG said:
    The fact is we are on a course to disaster as a planet. That is 100% given. The trouble is very few of us are willing to change our lives enough to slow it down globally.

    That isnt over reacting it's cold hard facts, not in our lifetime perhaps but certainly within the next 100 years
    You’re 100% right. That’s why we need a government that will actually take drastic steps, and change our behaviours. (eg two holidays flights a year only.)

    It probably will be in our lifetimes, even us ‘seniors’, and action needs to be taken now. Problem is, governments are short term, and they’d rather spend money on tax cuts or services. 
    Get you with your two holiday flights per year limit being a "drastic step"!
    Is that there and back?
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,728
    edited July 2022
    Gribbo said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Raining in Bexleyheath now
    SkyNews BREAKING - *Flood warning in North Kent*



    Just to spice the thread up a bit
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    eaststandmike said:
    SELR_addicks said:
    eaststandmike said:
    ME14addick said:
    carly burn said:
    Sky News is amongst the very worst of doom mongerers in this country.
    They have been showing the same loop of the Wennington fire for over 3 hours now and nothing else.
    They are desperate for this fire to spread across London and create a modern day Armageddon!
    It needs to be shown so that those who keep downplaying the effects of Climate Change can see what we're facing.
    It is not just climate change, we have had a dry hot summer so far and grass dries out. Plenty of instances of forest fires all over the country in years gone bye, sadly caused by nature, a stray fag butt, disposable BBQ's, littered glass bottles & dickheads having a laugh. 

    Yes its been a hot couple of days, yes the high temps are probably down to climate change but you cannot pin everything on it, accidents, nature and dickheads have been around for a long time and will continue to be so.  
    An oxymoron if ever I have heard one. 

    Yes, the majority of fires are man-made. However, the reason they require 30 fire engines-plus to sort out today is because of the heat and speed at which these fires spread due to the weather (and therefore climate change). 
    My point is that we are in July, which as we all know is a summer month. I am 64 and as long as I can remember the grass becomes dormant and dries out in June, July and August and therefore becomes more of a fire risk. 

    Our history books in the UK are littered with field/forest fires from the New Forest to the glens in Scotland some long before kids could spell climate change 
    West Ham started it
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,023
    Off_it said:
    JamesSeed said:
    AndyG said:
    The fact is we are on a course to disaster as a planet. That is 100% given. The trouble is very few of us are willing to change our lives enough to slow it down globally.

    That isnt over reacting it's cold hard facts, not in our lifetime perhaps but certainly within the next 100 years
    You’re 100% right. That’s why we need a government that will actually take drastic steps, and change our behaviours. (eg two holidays flights a year only.)

    It probably will be in our lifetimes, even us ‘seniors’, and action needs to be taken now. Problem is, governments are short term, and they’d rather spend money on tax cuts or services. 
    Get you with your two holiday flights per year limit being a "drastic step"!
    Not as drastic as one flight per year and you have to wait until next summer to come home.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Croydon said:
    Gribbo said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Raining in Bexleyheath now
    SkyNews BREAKING - *Flood warning in North Kent*



    Just to spice the thread up a bit
    Both of those extremes described my crack after doing the school pick up with all the kids books
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    Croydon said:
    Off_it said:
    JamesSeed said:
    AndyG said:
    The fact is we are on a course to disaster as a planet. That is 100% given. The trouble is very few of us are willing to change our lives enough to slow it down globally.

    That isnt over reacting it's cold hard facts, not in our lifetime perhaps but certainly within the next 100 years
    You’re 100% right. That’s why we need a government that will actually take drastic steps, and change our behaviours. (eg two holidays flights a year only.)

    It probably will be in our lifetimes, even us ‘seniors’, and action needs to be taken now. Problem is, governments are short term, and they’d rather spend money on tax cuts or services. 
    Get you with your two holiday flights per year limit being a "drastic step"!
    Is that there and back?
    This made me laugh more than it should 
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  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210
    Croydon said:
    Gribbo said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Raining in Bexleyheath now
    SkyNews BREAKING - *Flood warning in North Kent*



    Just to spice the thread up a bit
    Throw in a Gary Lineker tweet and it’s war. 
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Hark…thunder coming in from Maidstone

    hold me!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    Highest temperature today was at RAF Coningsby Lincolnshire 40.3…….a few miles north of Boston.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Bloke on the BBC news just said "London was burning" when talking about the fires in Dartford and Essex. Then seamlessly talking about another fire "north of london", which actually turned out to be in Milton Keynes!

    That sort of thing really doesnt help.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,290
    McBobbin said:
    Croydon said:
    Gribbo said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Raining in Bexleyheath now
    SkyNews BREAKING - *Flood warning in North Kent*



    Just to spice the thread up a bit
    Both of those extremes described my crack after doing the school pick up with all the kids books
    TMI McBobbin! TMI!
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,287
    eaststandmike said:
    SELR_addicks said:
    eaststandmike said:
    ME14addick said:
    carly burn said:
    Sky News is amongst the very worst of doom mongerers in this country.
    They have been showing the same loop of the Wennington fire for over 3 hours now and nothing else.
    They are desperate for this fire to spread across London and create a modern day Armageddon!
    It needs to be shown so that those who keep downplaying the effects of Climate Change can see what we're facing.
    It is not just climate change, we have had a dry hot summer so far and grass dries out. Plenty of instances of forest fires all over the country in years gone bye, sadly caused by nature, a stray fag butt, disposable BBQ's, littered glass bottles & dickheads having a laugh. 

    Yes its been a hot couple of days, yes the high temps are probably down to climate change but you cannot pin everything on it, accidents, nature and dickheads have been around for a long time and will continue to be so.  
    An oxymoron if ever I have heard one. 

    Yes, the majority of fires are man-made. However, the reason they require 30 fire engines-plus to sort out today is because of the heat and speed at which these fires spread due to the weather (and therefore climate change). 
    My point is that we are in July, which as we all know is a summer month. I am 64 and as long as I can remember the grass becomes dormant and dries out in June, July and August and therefore becomes more of a fire risk. 

    Our history books in the UK are littered with field/forest fires from the New Forest to the glens in Scotland some long before kids could spell climate change 
    Has it been 40 degrees before then?
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,287
    ValleyGary said:
    JamesSeed said:
    Gribbo said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Raining in Bexleyheath now
    SkyNews BREAKING - *Flood warning in North Kent*
    Hilarious. 
    Lighten up 
    OI PUT THAT OUT YOU’LL CAUSE A FIRE!!!
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,334
    BR7_addick said:
    Croydon said:
    Gribbo said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Raining in Bexleyheath now
    SkyNews BREAKING - *Flood warning in North Kent*



    Just to spice the thread up a bit
    Throw in a Gary Lineker tweet and it’s war. 

  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,287
    Has anyone seen that farmer in spain head towards the fire in his bulldozer to dig a fire ditch when you see the digger disappear as the flames engulf him?
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    Does anyone have the graphic comparing global temp now and in 1976?

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