Everyone OK up North? (UK Flooding)

[cultcross]

Just thought I'd check on our northern members - everyone alright and not under 5 feet of water?

From the news etc. it all looks pretty bad up there at the moment, I hope everyone is doing OK.

For outside readers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/8369400.stm

A number of people, including a police officer, are unaccounted for after a bridge collapsed in Cumbria.

 

[Shazam!]

It's sunny : /

 

[cultcross]

Sunny here too, actually But the news said PANIC! And I'm MTV generation, we do what our glowing box demands.

 

[Jim Gamma]

Oh, THAT'S where all our nice sun has gone! It's REALLY dreary here today.

 

[Kira's Mom]

Cockermouth?

Sorry. Just seems like a funny name for a town. Almost like Fucking, Austria.

Hope everyone is okay up there. Those floods look bad.

 

[Jadzia]

Cockermouth?

Sorry. Just seems like a funny name for a town. Almost like Fucking, Austria.

Hope everyone is okay up there. Those floods look bad.

We are a nation known for our funny town names;

Ae; Asick Bottom; Backside; Badger; Bell End; Beeby; Beer; Besses o'th' Barn; Biggar; Bishops Itchington; Bitchfield; Blubberhouses; Bottom Head; Bog end; Bucklers Hard; Bummers Hill; Burpham; Bush; Buttock Point; Buttocks Booth; Chess; Cock Bridge; Cocking; Cocklick End; Cockpole Green; Cockermouth; Crackpot; Crapstone; Currie; Dead; Dogdyke; Dole; Droop; Duck End; Dyke; Fatfield; Fattahead; Fingringhoe; Foul End; Gaywood; Goosey; Great Fryupdale; Great Snoring; Ham; Happy Bottom; Hetton-le-Hole; Horsey Windpump; Hungry Law; Kingston Bagpuize; Land of Nod; Lickfold; Leatherhead; Lickey End; Locksbottom; Loggerheads; Looe; Loose; Lover; Lower Slaughter; Muff; Muffworthy; Nasty; Nether Wallop; Nobber; No Place; Old Wives' Lees; Oldtown of Ord; Once Brewed; Outcast; Pant; Penistone; Peover Superior; Piddle; Piddlehinton; Piddletrenthide; Pity Me; Plucks Gutter; Plush; Pratts Bottom; Quaking Houses; Ramsbottom; Rashy Height; Ring of Kerry; Rhodesia; Salt; Sandwich; Shaggie Burn; Sheepy Magna; Skinners Bottom; Slack; Slaggyford; Snodland; Spital-in-the-Street; Splatt; Splott; Street; The Hard; The O A; Thong; Thrashbush; Three Cocks; Titsey; Titty Hill; Toe Head; Tongue; Tumby Woodside; Twatt; Twydall; Ugley; Upper Dicker; Upper Thong; Wetwang; Wideopen; Willey; Wormegay; Wyre Piddle.

 

[Pingfah]

^ There's a village called Brill near me, and another called Playing Place, one called Mousehole, lots of cool place names.

 

[Jadzia]

I've been to Mousehole

 

[Jim Gamma]

Yep, and for the uninitiated among us, it's actually pronounced "MOH-zel".

We have some very WEIRD pronunciations here... "Leicester" is pronounded Lester, "Greenwich" is Grennich, "Splott" is Sploh, etc.

 

[Pingfah]

"MOW-Zel" I would have said

 

[Jim Gamma]

^Either works, depending on your original accent.

Back on topic though, I hope that the lack of people responding here means that our North British friends are OK and simply at work, and not that they're dealing with hellish deluges of water.

 

[cultcross]

The police officer who was missing's body has been found. PC Bill Barker, aged 45, a father of four and 25 years on the job.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8369934.stm

My sincerest condolences to friends, family and colleagues. It must be absolutely devastating for them.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

My parents are fortunately on the other side of Scotland from where the majority of the problems are, and apart from the wind and rain, they're doing fine.

Here, we've had a little bit of rain, a lot of gales, but right now it's nice and sunny.



By the way, off-topic, for those who have not yet read "The Meaning of Liff" by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, do so. Now.
My parents actually live very close to Liff.

 

[John Clark]

Rained a bit here (North west) but no flooding locally

 

[WillsBabe]

The police officer who was missing's body has been found. PC Bill Barker, aged 45, a father of four and 25 years on the job.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8369934.stm

My sincerest condolences to friends, family and colleagues. It must be absolutely devastating for them.

I've been watching this story all day. I'm very saddened to find it ending like this. Condolences to his family.

 

[Geckothan]

I hear it rains upwards if you go up north. Eh up chuck!