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Post by felonious on Sept 9, 2019 18:00:50 GMT
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Post by AlliG on Sept 9, 2019 18:50:58 GMT
I can see the Trent from my window, but, as I have a 2nd floor flat probably binoculars and popcorn so I can watch the drama.  |
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Post by Boothen on Sept 9, 2019 18:52:40 GMT
I live right on the banks of the Trent, and in all my time it has never even got close to bursting it's banks.
My go bag though, well that's just the usual stuff. First aid, nutrition, water purification, burner, fire steel, batteries, wire wool, compass, knife, hatchet, poncho and other asorted bits and bobs like thin, but warm clothing.
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Post by zerps on Sept 9, 2019 18:52:53 GMT
Isn’t the trent basically a brook in stoke?
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Post by Northy on Sept 9, 2019 19:36:18 GMT
Probably antibiotics and dioralite are needed if our rivers burst their banks
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Post by yeokel on Sept 9, 2019 19:56:39 GMT
I live right on the banks of the Trent, and in all my time it has never even got close to bursting it's banks. My go bag though, well that's just the usual stuff. First aid, nutrition, water purification, burner, fire steel, batteries, wire wool, compass, knife, hatchet, poncho and other asorted bits and bobs like thin, but warm clothing. It used to burst its banks down at Hanford from time to time in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. As for my go bag...... I’d take an OS map of the area - those contour lines might be very handy. Also, an iPad, some battery packs and and a Mifi, with a few sims. Oh, and about 20 packets of Maryland Cookies. |
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Post by Boothen on Sept 9, 2019 20:34:15 GMT
I live right on the banks of the Trent, and in all my time it has never even got close to bursting it's banks. My go bag though, well that's just the usual stuff. First aid, nutrition, water purification, burner, fire steel, batteries, wire wool, compass, knife, hatchet, poncho and other asorted bits and bobs like thin, but warm clothing. It used to burst its banks down at Hanford from time to time in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Yeah, can remember it flooding down there back then. But, if memory serves, it was only on the flood plain though, it didn't actually flood streets or anything so that there were people in canoes bobbing on by. |
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Post by felonious on Sept 10, 2019 5:45:18 GMT
I live right on the banks of the Trent, and in all my time it has never even got close to bursting it's banks. My go bag though, well that's just the usual stuff. First aid, nutrition, water purification, burner, fire steel, batteries, wire wool, compass, knife, hatchet, poncho and other asorted bits and bobs like thin, but warm clothing. The bit about the Trent was tongue in cheek. I run the stretch adjacent to Campbell Road most weeks although it does seem to be flooding more now than it used to.....another 20 metres higher and it'll take the D Road out |
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Post by Northy on Sept 10, 2019 6:44:51 GMT
I wouldn't bother down south, most of the rivers are drying up, 90% of the worlds chalk streams are in England, mainly in the south east, most are down to a trickle or dried up, once swarming with trout and mayfly and other wildlife, now mud beds with litter and sewage, just so people can wash their cars and jetwash their drives every week. Over abstraction for the constant expanding population, the environment agency is useless, ofwat issue fines, the companies just keep spilling raw sewage now and then and pass the fines onto the customers. Fergal Sharkey from the undertones is now a big environmentalist and campaigning against it. (wrong thread?)  |
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Post by Boothen on Sept 10, 2019 6:47:26 GMT
I live right on the banks of the Trent, and in all my time it has never even got close to bursting it's banks. My go bag though, well that's just the usual stuff. First aid, nutrition, water purification, burner, fire steel, batteries, wire wool, compass, knife, hatchet, poncho and other asorted bits and bobs like thin, but warm clothing. The bit about the Trent was tongue in cheek. I run the stretch adjacent to Campbell Road most weeks although it does seem to be flooding more now than it used to.....another 20 metres higher and it'll take the D Road out You run down the path alongside the Trent? I cycle along there quite regularly.   |
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Post by bathstoke on Sept 10, 2019 7:20:18 GMT
The bit about the Trent was tongue in cheek. I run the stretch adjacent to Campbell Road most weeks although it does seem to be flooding more now than it used to.....another 20 metres higher and it'll take the D Road out You run down the path alongside the Trent? I cycle along there quite regularly. WTF is that, Bike Porn!?! |
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Post by bathstoke on Sept 10, 2019 7:21:38 GMT
It used to burst its banks down at Hanford from time to time in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Yeah, can remember it flooding down there back then. But, if memory serves, it was only on the flood plain though, it didn't actually flood streets or anything so that there were people in canoes bobbing on by. Isn’t that where the Lyme runs into the Trent... |
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Post by felonious on Sept 10, 2019 7:45:18 GMT
The bit about the Trent was tongue in cheek. I run the stretch adjacent to Campbell Road most weeks although it does seem to be flooding more now than it used to.....another 20 metres higher and it'll take the D Road out You run down the path alongside the Trent? I cycle along there quite regularly. I know it well.....I'll be there on Thursday evening it's on the 3 mile effort. Shame they didn't open the bridge area onto Campbell Road when they made the access. |
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Post by marylandstoke on Sept 10, 2019 16:49:12 GMT
Terrence Trent Darby my arse.
The Trent doesn’t go through Derby.
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Post by Northy on Sept 10, 2019 19:58:40 GMT
Has anybody packed condoms, won't be much fresh water for the ladies to wash down there with |
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Post by felonious on Sept 10, 2019 20:02:56 GMT
I put the Trent in as a pisstake. Has anyone got any ideas what catastrophe could befall our beloved area apart from a zombie apocalypse breaking out from beyond Burslem?
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Post by iancransonsknees on Sept 11, 2019 10:54:42 GMT
I put the Trent in as a pisstake. Has anyone got any ideas what catastrophe could befall our beloved area apart from a zombie apocalypse breaking out from beyond Burslem? Nothing that'd make the place worse than it already is. Go down to Century Street to see the Zombie apocalypse. |
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Post by mattador78 on Sept 11, 2019 11:41:42 GMT
A crowbar is the ultimate survival tool it has multiple uses. Such as breaking into empty properties for resources, a walking or climbing aid, digging for root or vegetables. Then the ultimate use, twating somebody with a go bag around the side of the head to give you a free go bag 👍
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Post by NassauDave on Sept 11, 2019 11:58:11 GMT
One of the kids.
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Post by danceswithclams on Sept 11, 2019 12:35:20 GMT
^ One of his kids.
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