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Chat => General => Topic started by: bounty hunter on September 07, 2008, 08:35:36 pm
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Peterborough could be one of the first towns to flood owing to rising ground water a spokesman for Huntingdon Tourist Information Centre has claimed. Global Warming and ancient fenland water levels would make the town uninhabitable by the next Olymics said the source. 'We strongly recommend people come to Huntingdon if they want a nice holiday in this part of the world', they continued.
In rebuttle, Mark Holness of Peterborough town council refuted the allegations saying, 'this is nothing but scare mongering by Huntingdon. We have conducted our own aluvial studies and found no cause concern. People should continue to take their holidays in Peterborough. We have a nice cathedral and shops and things.'
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You can always hope! ;)
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It is all pure speculation.
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I would doubt that anyone would take a holiday in either Peterborough or Huntingdon. Both are beautiful and both have exceptional places of interest close by but neither offers much in the way of holiday accommodation and neither are very close to the coast.
As for Peterborough being under water in the future - well a few million years ago it was under water. If it is to flood again, the most likely cause would we be flooding from the Wash. That would mean a good few towns nearer to the Wash would flood first (Boston, Spalding, Crowland) and huntingdon would not be far behind. If, on the other hand the flood was to be from the river over-flowing onto the fens (as it has done in the past) then Huntingdon would not escape as the same river flows through both cities! I have seen Huntingdon suffering flooding from the river overflowing at the same time as Peterborough.
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why not bulid some dams? or will hollend being going underwater..
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We have dikes.
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And gays
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I can't believe you said that bounty.
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I can.
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It was a bit below the belt.
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The three things below the belt tend to be dicks, fannies and arses.
Which one are you, Bounty?
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You forgot the perineum. Typical of a Scot to overlook an interesting bit.
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and he forgot the haggis.
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And the legs
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You forgot the perineum.
Carse
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Is that what you call it?
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I was on a bus once drunk with mates and siad there have many dikes. in scotland, and also there have lots for coving the borders. you wont get to hollend easy u have to get pass the dikes.first although sure I said the dikes. in scotland have tones of holes in them, ( fallin apart0
it was not till later some one pointed out it can also mean something else
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The dikes around here are deep ditches around fields to collect the water and stop the land and the roads from flooding. Parts of the Fens are many feet below seawater.
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Is that what you call it?
T'aint the c**k, t'aint the a**e. Also known as the taint.
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LOL!