Build a snowman its your public duty.
- 24 January 2013 12:04211780I write this from a very snowy Leicestershire. We got back from Dover yesterday. Apparently we are being advised to build large snow men to slow down the thaw when it comes at the weekend to avoid a repeat of the flooding before Christmas!
- 24 January 2013 12:12211785Good point.
- 24 January 2013 12:15211787"'Build snowman' advice amended by Environment Agency
Agency backtracks on suggestion to build legion of Frosties to lower flood risk with thaw, as more snow predicted on Friday"
"The Environment Agency has amended its advice on the best way to deal with the looming thaw after conceding that urging everyone to build a snowman would probably do little to lessen the risk of flooding.
Amid fears that the recent snow will melt into floodwater as temperatures pick up over the weekend, the agency had offered worried homeowners an unorthodox suggestion.
"Ideally, if everybody built themselves a snowman that will slow the thaw down a bit," said Roy Stokes, a spokesman for the agency.
He pointed out that tightly-packed blocks of snow - such as snowmen - tend to stay colder for longer, thus helping to regulate the flow of water..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/24/build-snowman-advice-amended
I could have harvested a few 'cumquats' and parsnips on my morning stroll, not all snow-persons can live with the pace of change.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 24 January 2013 12:16211788Best plan is to go to Spain and come back in the summer.
- 24 January 2013 14:17211801Indeed it was the environment agency who put out this advice to media outlets. The same environment agency who issued this report regarding last years drought lasting till Christmas and beyond:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/138916.aspx
Good to know our taxes are going to a government department who issue such good advice and keep us safe. - 24 January 2013 15:14211805they would need to be very tall snowmen to have much effect.
- 24 January 2013 15:19211806Actually short and very fat would work better.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- Jan Higgins
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24 January 2013 15:22211810Has April 1st been moved.
When I heard this on the news early this morning I just had to laugh, how a so called educated person would think an idea like this would work completely astounds me. The only way this snowman idea would make the slightest difference would be if snowmen were all over the hills and fields not in a few back gardens.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 24 January 2013 15:28211811apparently we can forget the snowman theory.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/50-flood-warnings-as-fast-thaw-and-heavy-rain-threatens-to-soak-britain-and-no-building-a-snowman-wont-help-8465303.html - 24 January 2013 15:31211813Maybe some University could draw-up plans for drainage channels and aqua-ducts made from compacted snow for areas at risk?
These could be used as 'Cresta-runs UK' until the thaw set in.Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 24 January 2013 15:46211818Besides lifting the occasional shopping trolley from local rivers and advise us to build snowmen to alleviate flooding risks this is apparently what this extremely well funded agency does for us all:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/aboutus/work/35696.aspx