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Love the idea of the guy with the camera on his helmet and a dog! It must have been a really small pooch.
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Thanks DG! I'm now playing an enjoyable game of 'match-the-legs-to-the-torso'...
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Never seen the Severn Bore but caught a couple of big aegres on the Trent at West Stockwith in 2011. No camera crews and only a few watchers in the grey dawn light. The wave was pretty impressive - more so before it broke - but the most amazing thing was how the river, which had previously been very low, was suddenly full to the top of its banks. Less than a minute later, a big gravel barge came up on the tide. When we were moored on the floating pontoon a bit further up the river at Torksey, you could feel a sort of clunk as the tide came in, and were suddenly several feet higher.
Photo of the aegre here http://chertsey130.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/what-bore.html |
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You are never being boring.
You are never being bored. |
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after replaying the video 3 times I think I've identified the blue jeans disappearing behind the yellow 4x4
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Well, if that is you in the yellow 4x4 shot, your anonymity is safe for a bit longer!
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Boring.
No, wait, very interesting. Thanks for putting yourself in mild peril for us. |
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Your foot is becoming quite famous, two sightings in the last week!
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At the risk being boring, thank you DG for the torrent of information concerning an event that surfed to the top of the news. From early morning a steady stream of people arrived hoping a renowned bore would make an appearance. Their expectations ebbed and flowed with the brightening day. Alas! all hope was washed away and sank when the wave became a ripple.
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Plaudits to Tim Dunn.
And thanks, DG, for a post so interesting that I almost forgot to wonder if there are other, regional, bores: viz "You've heard of the Severn Bore? X is the Thames Bore" etc etc. |
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Years ago I made a TV documentary about the River Severn, and we filmedthe famous Bore. It wasn't a particularly flood-prone time, but it was quite remarkable how, more or less on cue, this giant wave trundled up the river, transforming it within a few minutes from placidly flowing towards the sea to a turbulent expanse of water hustling upstream, many feet higher, carrying broken trees and other debris. It seems a river estuary needs to be a particular shape to funnel the incoming tide so it comes up all at once as a single wavefront.
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Yes, there is the Trent aegre or aegir (which no one knows how to pronounce which is perhaps why it doesn't get talked about). It may not be quite as dramatic as the Severn Bore but its pretty impressive.
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River Dee has a bore as well, near Chester.
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