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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2006UK flash floods.
Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all UK rpca'ers okay? Cheers, helen s  Signature~~ you may need to remove dependence on fame & fortune from organisation to get correct email address ~Noodliness is Good~ > Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all UK > rpca'ers okay? I'm okay up to now apart from boiling in the heat here in Leics ;-) 30+C (90f) here today. Thanks for asking. Tweed Not one drop of rain here so far thanks! Brain fried with the heat, but otherwise all is well! sandra > Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all UK > rpca'ers okay? Purrs for anyone affected. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all > UK rpca'ers okay? > > Cheers, helen s We're OK on the east coast, no rain rain yet though it's needed. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > > Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all > > UK rpca'ers okay? Safe in London- would gladly travel anywhere with rain. As mum always used to say "Horses sweat, gentlemen perspire but ladies only glow" By that standard, I'm a pretty good each way bet for the next Grand National!!! We know it's the max on the STS (Sarrasine's tail scale). Sarrasine is proud of her long tail and usually sleeps with it curled round her (a sensible precaution) but the warmer it gets the more her tail droops down and at the moment she's crashed out with her tail hanging limp and away from her. She wasn't even interested in food this morning but the water dish is emptying rapidly (I put some ice cubes in the water- good meowmie! I'm popular at the moment!) Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >> > Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all >> > UK rpca'ers okay? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >water dish is emptying rapidly (I put some ice cubes in the water- good >meowmie! I'm popular at the moment!) You know it is really hot when you see an animal sleeping on its back, all four legs in the air for maximum ventilation. I once saw a tiger at the zoo sleeping in that position, and it looked pretty comical. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > We know it's the max on the STS (Sarrasine's tail scale). Sarrasine is > proud of her long tail and usually sleeps with it curled round her (a [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Sounds like an outbreak of Flat Cat Syndrome has hit Britain! Melissa > Sounds like an outbreak of Flat Cat Syndrome has hit Britain! Totally flat cat! This morning Sarrasine was sprawled over the boxes on top of the wardrobe completely flat and not moving for anyone. Trouble is she's very good at it and I had a sudden panic because normally she wakes up when I do..You know the one where you start thinking things like "she's 3 years old and perfectly healthy- get a grip on yourself woman!" because she isn't answering to calls or tapping noises...She's so good at this that as a kitten, Dave found her lying there apparently unresponsive so he picked her up and she was completely limp. He was just starting to wonder how to do the kiss of life on a kitten when one eye opened and she made that noise that plainly says "F**k off, I was asleep there!" Redunzel's just complaining about the heat Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >>Sounds like an outbreak of Flat Cat Syndrome has hit Britain! > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > eye opened and she made that noise that plainly says "F**k off, I was > asleep there!" LOL! More than once, I've had to check to be sure one of mine was breathing, because it was doing such a good immitation of "dead thing in the middle of the road"! > LOL! More than once, I've had to check to be sure one of mine was > breathing, because it was doing such a good immitation of "dead > thing in the middle of the road"! We were talking about cats hunting, and how patient they are (at least the successful ones), at work yesterday, and my co-worker said, "There's a very fine line between a cat who's asleep and one who's hunting." Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca >> LOL! More than once, I've had to check to be sure one of mine was >> breathing, because it was doing such a good immitation of "dead [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > "There's a very fine line between a cat who's asleep and one who's > hunting." LOL! It's not *exactly* true. Boyfie was helping me with the chickens this morning and he was meatloafing on the path. I knew he'd seen something by the position of his ears and his body language. Suddenly he sprang and rushed at what seemed 100 mph, the blackbird escaped ;-) What your co-worker said might apply more to catching mice. Tweed >Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all >UK rpca'ers okay? It was a pretty wet drive from Harrogate to the Wirral last night, certainly. SignatureDavid Stevenson Storypage: http://blakjak.com/sty_menu.htm Liverpool, England, UK <cat2@blakjak.com> Emails welcome Nanki Poo: SI O+W B 12 Y L+ W++ C+ I T+ A- E H++ V- F Q P+ B+ PA+ PL SC Minke: SI W+Cp B 3 Y L W+ C++ I T A- E H++ V++ F- Q- P B PA+ PL+ SC- >Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all UK >rpca'ers okay? > >Cheers, helen s We are having them in the Northeast US, too. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War >> Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) >> all UK rpca'ers okay? >> >> Cheers, helen s > > We are having them in the Northeast US, too. I saw on te news last night, several people had been killed in Romania due to flooding, it looked pretty bad there. There's nothing anyone can do about the weather. :-( SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >Kreisleriana wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >to flooding, it looked pretty bad there. There's nothing anyone can do about >the weather. :-( Sadly untrue. There is little doubt that weather extremes are a consequence of global warming which is why a majority of countries are trying to stop it. However, it does need more people to do so. SignatureDavid Stevenson Storypage: http://blakjak.com/sty_menu.htm Liverpool, England, UK <cat2@blakjak.com> Emails welcome Nanki Poo: SI O+W B 12 Y L+ W++ C+ I T+ A- E H++ V- F Q P+ B+ PA+ PL SC Minke: SI W+Cp B 3 Y L W+ C++ I T A- E H++ V++ F- Q- P B PA+ PL+ SC- >> Kreisleriana wrote: >>> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > global warming which is why a majority of countries are trying to stop > it. However, it does need more people to do so. I agree that a lot of the extreme weather is due, in part at least, to global warming caused by human activity. What I meant was, during the bad weather there's not much an individual can do. I see parts of Italy are suffering now. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Sadly untrue. > > There is little doubt that weather extremes are a consequence of > global warming which is why a majority of countries are trying to > stop it. However, it does need more people to do so. I believe 100% that our behaviors have impacted the climate. I don't believe that the short time in which we've been monitoring temperatures and other aspects of climate is great enough to establish any kind of a trend. A few decades isn't even a blip to the history of the Earth. Or, seen another way, if we've damaged the climate that badly, we're probably screwed. So we'd better hope that this is a temporary blip, while also learning to behave in environmentally sound ways to preserve the Earth for future generations of humans. (I'm quite sure life will continue on the earth; we jut might not be around to catalogue the species anymore.) Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca > Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all UK > rpca'ers okay? > > Cheers, helen s The storm passed by Preston, high and threatening. It broke when it hit the hills, so the Pennine villages were hit hard, and Manchester got it too. Jeanette It's just poured down for about an hour in London (East) but doesn't feel any fresher for it. Went to Brighton yesterday with my Aussie nephew and it was roasting (even for him), but lovely to get a bit of a sea breeze. Back to work in town tomorrow which I'm dreading if the heatwave continues, have had an amazing week off. Been to Epping Forest, Richmond Park, Brighton, St James's Park and seen loads of baby ducks and swans, aah! The nephew is in for a shock, as he's just gone to the airport to meet in his girlfiend. She didn't believe that we are having a heatwave, and in the time it's taken him to get to the airport and back, it's been sunny, thunder and lightning and is now sunny again. I knew it would happen because I'd just hung out the washing and watered the garden! Marcia > > Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all UK > > rpca'ers okay? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Jeanette > It's just poured down for about an hour in London (East) but doesn't > feel any fresher for it. I didn't know you were in East London- where? Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs We've just had a very violent thunder storm. To be honest I was quite scared, the hailstones were over a 1/4" in diameter and made so much noise on the conservatory roof I was sure they were going to shatter it (it's polycarbonate thankfully and not glass). The gutters couldn't cope with the amount of water and it was cascading off the roof onto the conservatory and then onto the patio - it was like being in a waterfall. Chris's runnerbean plants, which were in full flower yesterday, are now just stalks with leaves like lace, and my hanging baskets are 'flat'.........at least we wont have to water the garden tomorrow. We're waiting for the rain to stop before we go out and see if any thing else is damaged - the conservatory roof may need attention as water came in at the back where it buts up against the wall. The temperature has gone down a bit (now 70f it was 90f) but the humidity hasn't, the forecast is for more storms tomorrow what fun! SignatureShirley off to check on the cats http://community.webshots.com/user/shirleycatuk > It's just poured down for about an hour in London (East) but doesn't > feel any fresher for it. Went to Brighton yesterday with my Aussie > nephew and it was roasting (even for him), but lovely to get a bit of a > sea breeze. That's another effect of global warming - until the last couple of summers, most of Europe did not NEED air-conditioning in summer! Neither your winters nor your summers were anywhere near as extreme as those in most of the U.S.. (Of course, I don't include the Scandinavian countries when it comes to winter - although I think the reason so many Swedes and Norwegians settled in Minnesota and Wisconsin was because they were used to similar winters.) Back to work in town tomorrow which I'm dreading if the > heatwave continues, have had an amazing week off. Been to Epping > Forest, Richmond Park, Brighton, St James's Park and seen loads of baby [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >>Jeanette > Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) all UK > rpca'ers okay? The storms hit Leics today, pretty spectacular ones they were too. Big bangs that almost vibrated my house, lots of lightning and really torrential rain. To get from my house down to the village I have to drive on a single track road under a railway bridge which is now totally impassable due to flooding. The upside of the storms is that the temperature has dropped dramatically from the 90's to 60 and I won't have to water my garden tonight. The downside was that it was my day off and I couldn't really do anything outside. One amusement "us locals" sometimes indulge in (we're a sick bunch really ;-)) is to go down to the railway bridge when it's flooded and watch non-locals decide whether or not to risk driving their cars through to avoid a long detour. Most are sensible and turn back but you get the occasional one who will go for it. Then their car dies right under the bridge and they have to get out and paddle. If they are on their own, they are in a bit of trouble because they need to push the car uphill through the water and they can't do it. In order to drive it home to these folks who are too impatient to take a two mile detour (they have a car, they don't have to walk it!) us locals will often stand as a group nearby and say "Awww, you never shudda done it, now what you gonna do?" If there are any kind men there, they will often take off their footwear, roll up their trousers and help push the car out with a warning about being stupid. If only children are there (this is common, the local children love it) then they just have to get on their mobile phones to a garage to be towed out. Never seen the same car stuck twice.. I told my neighbour he would be on to a good earner to take his big 4X4 down there when the bridge was flooded and charge half what a garage would to tow them out. He wouldn't have to wait long for a customer. Tweed >> Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) >> all UK rpca'ers okay? [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Tweed We had more rain today but nothing like yesterday, did you see Luton on the news, some poor souls came home from work to find 2ft of hailstones in their gardens. SignatureShirley http://community.webshots.com/user/shirleycatuk >>> Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) >>> all UK rpca'ers okay? [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > on the news, some poor souls came home from work to find 2ft of > hailstones in their gardens. Still waiting for rain here on the Yorkshire coast, we really need it. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > >>> Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) > >>> all UK rpca'ers okay? [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > Still waiting for rain here on the Yorkshire coast, we really need it. Why can't rain fall where it's needed!! instead of flooding places :( >> >>> Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I think) >> >>> all UK rpca'ers okay? [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > > Why can't rain fall where it's needed!! instead of flooding places :( Dunno! That's one of life's mysteries.. Same again today, big storms which knocked out our telephones and computer system at work. Which is scary as we are the lead service for child protection work in this county. The phones were up when I left to go home but the computers are fried. They are essential as they have all our records on and what is going on at the moment, who has what case, etc etc. My memory has had to work overtime today about what referrals I have recently seen to say where they might be at this present moment when someone else phones in about it. I can't remember them all, not 300 a month! I can remember most, but not all the ins and outs of them, and without the computer I cannot track what is happening. There should be a better back up system than this. A power cut should not prevent us from accessing the necessary information to protect children. It wouldn't in an immediate crisis, as we'd go out anyway but it can be useful to know that dad is an axe murderer recently out of prison. <rant over> Sorry. I feel strongly about the reliance on computers/electricity in this line of work. Tweed >> >>> Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I >> >>> think) [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] > Why can't rain fall where it's needed!! instead of flooding places > :( Oh, we needed it just not 6 months worth in an hour. :-( SignatureShirley http://community.webshots.com/user/shirleycatuk >>>>>> Some parts of UK hit by flash floods (north & north west I >>>>>> think) [quoted text clipped - 67 lines] > > Oh, we needed it just not 6 months worth in an hour. :-( We're still waiting, there was thunder near by earlier this evening with a very few spots of rain for 5 minutes, then it cleared up and has been dry since then. The hedgehogs have been here again this evening, eating the food and drinking the water provided for them. I worry about the birds and animals that are having difficulty finding water. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >I told my neighbour he would be on to a good earner to take his big 4X4 down >there when the bridge was flooded and charge half what a garage would to tow >them out. He wouldn't have to wait long for a customer. I have read that, when automobiles were first invented and were basically toys for the rich, and country roads were still mostly just unimproved dirt roads, farmers would sometimes flood a section of road to make a deep mud patch, so that they could be paid for bringing a team of horses or oxen to tow a car out of the mud. The folks who lived nearby knew which sections of road to avoid, so they weren't as badly inconvenienced as travelers were. SignatureJohn F. 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