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Wow, one day I will have to go and see that ... |
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Wow! looks great,pity I missed it,(did not know about raising) thanks for posting the report and pictures. |
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Did it myself in the late-80s DG. Only to be underwhelmed afterwards by the Barrier's visitor centre - no actual tour of the control room or the tunnel linking each side of the Thames - rather a cheap sub-Disney audio-visual display complete with "London Smog" and a "scary" river pirate. The real barrier would be an excellent choice for next weekend's Open House (but isn't...). |
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It looks like a childs toy, if you have seen the Delta plan in the Netherlands. |
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Surely it's high tide downstream and low tide upstream? Otherwise it sounds like you are trying to keep the flood waters in London.... dg writes: Oops, yes, now switched, thanks. |
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Unless it rains a lot I thought the barrier was to protect against a storm surge from the north sea which is surely more to do with high tide and air pressure than rain? |
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Rob's right, if the Thames is flooding then the last thing you want is the barrier up. The real problem is if you get flooding and a storm surge and a spring tide at the same time. |
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I thought I read somewhere that the barrier was used 3 times in anger between "opening" and 1999, but was used 6 times in 1999 alone. Does that sound right? I remember one (sunny) day the Thames coming up through a grate in Duke Shore Place and running out into Narrow Street. |
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