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2014-02-15 Britain

Princes William, Harry sandbag against U.K. floods

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Posted by Fred 2014-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The princes, who have both served in the armed forces, joined a work crew In Datchet, west of London, from about 6 a.m. on what aides said was a private visit.

Tasks seldom undertaken among American politicians and nobility.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-02-15 07:19|| 2014-02-15 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Windsor and Eton-Datchet are next door.

Windsor is where the Queen lives.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-02-15 07:32|| 2014-02-15 07:32|| Front Page Top

#3 >had its wettest January since records began in 1766

Not True. 1929/30 was wetter

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-02-15 07:34|| 2014-02-15 07:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Flooding: a synergy between "green" ideologues and Brussels

See EUReferendum for all the details.

Excerpt: But all this got markedly worse after 2002 when the Baroness Young of Old Scone, a Labour peeress, became the agency's new chief executive. Dredging virtually ceased altogether. Although not immediately apparent, the rivers began dangerously to silt up.

The Baroness, who had previously run the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Natural England, and was still a vice-president of the RSPB (a conflict of interest is ever there was one), talked obsessively about the need to promote the interests of wildlife. She was famously heard to say that she wanted to see "a limpet mine put on every pumping station".

Posted by AlanC 2014-02-15 08:23|| 2014-02-15 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 England, which has been lashed by wind and rain since December, had its wettest January since records began

Let me guess: the Met, thanks to their new supercomputer, was predicting prolonged drought.

Posted by SteveS 2014-02-15 10:32|| 2014-02-15 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I have no job... it's underwater :(

Posted by Devilstoenail 2014-02-15 15:50|| 2014-02-15 15:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Although their father is a prime example of a snotty little upper-class twit, both William and Harry seem like fairly decent young men.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-02-15 16:37|| 2014-02-15 16:37|| Front Page Top

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