Re: Floods, WAS: OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report

2003-01-09 Thread Shaun Canning
ot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: Re: Floods, WAS: OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report Yes Don, that's wonderful, and your point is not lost on conservation people like me. Of course technology can be of significant help.

Re: Floods, WAS: OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report

2003-01-09 Thread Dr E D F Williams
e - From: "Shaun Canning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: Re: Floods, WAS: OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report > Yes Don, that's wonderful, and your point is not lost on conservation > people like me. Of

Re: Floods, WAS: OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report

2003-01-09 Thread Shaun Canning
MAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:50 PM Subject: Floods, WAS: OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report That night I kept having nightmares about having to wade through floodwater downstairs! First light i looked out and breathed a sigh of relief to

Floods, WAS: OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report

2003-01-08 Thread Mike Johnston
> That night I kept having nightmares about having to wade through > floodwater downstairs! First light i looked out and breathed a sigh of > relief to see no appreciable rise. The stake confirmed it. My mother's house in Cambridge (MA) flooded so badly a couple of years ago that it came within a

Re: OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report

2003-01-07 Thread Shaun Canning
Winter wheat crop? That implies that you are getting 2 crops per yearwe're lucky to get one a year in a normal season, let alone the way things are at the moment. The Australian grain harvest is expected to be down by about 50-60% this year alone. Same will happen to the live meat exports.

Re: OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report

2003-01-07 Thread Stan Halpin
Not so bad here yet. In the whole region they are making comparisons to the Dust Bowl disaster of the 1930's. We had well below normal rainfall this year, mostly coming last spring (March-April). The winter wheat has been planted, it will need some snow cover soon, and then some significant rain th

OT: Manfrotto tripod mini-report

2003-01-05 Thread Cotty
The last few days have seen us holding our breath near the River Thames (pronounced Temz) on the outskirts of Oxford, England. Extremely heavy rain last week means the river is now flooding, and within yards of our back door. The water table is so high that the garden is flooded, with no direct