| Dartford fire 14:41 - Jul 19 with 3729 views | N2_Blue |
Looks horrendous. Really pray no one has been hurt.
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| Dartford fire on 17:48 - Jul 19 with 835 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| Dartford fire on 17:09 - Jul 19 by jeera |
Yes I am an adult with a car and everything. Of course I have.
I'm simply saying if anyone takes on board some advice/tips and makes them less thoughtless than usual it's better than nothing.
I've no idea how such a simple statement could draw so much controversy.
My actual point was the one about compost heaps you may have noticed which is not something we would all necessarily consider. |
Good point re compost heaps so have just been and watered mine down….and hundreds of angry wasps came flying out like feckin missiles. Third one this week.
Got a field of tinder dry stubble across the lane from our house. Need some bloody rain bud and soon. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Dartford fire on 17:50 - Jul 19 with 827 views | jeera |
| Dartford fire on 17:48 - Jul 19 by StochesStotasBlewe |
Good point re compost heaps so have just been and watered mine down….and hundreds of angry wasps came flying out like feckin missiles. Third one this week.
Got a field of tinder dry stubble across the lane from our house. Need some bloody rain bud and soon. |
Forgot to mention the wasps.
Sorry. |  |
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| Dartford fire on 17:54 - Jul 19 with 815 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Dartford fire on 16:43 - Jul 19 by jeera |
He hasn't got a clue about anything. He really is thick as sh1t.
Adam Hills was saying the other night how when it hits 40°C at home people tend to stay indoors. I've been to Aus and can confirm they don't take the hot weather lightly at all, as I'm sure the several residents on TWTD would agree. I have family in Aus and they say the same. Where does this ridiculous notion come from that regular folk who live in hot countries wander about in it outside all day like it's normal? They don't. They're not that stupid. What they have done is learnt to live with it which means treating the weather with some respect.
The other notable thing about that clip is much he bangs on about Strasburg. I didn't realise he was such a Francophile.
He certainly seems to like slagging off this country. |
He probably wasn’t even in Strasbourg half the time he should have been. One of my old sponsors had links to the UKIP MEPs, so I met his advisors a few times, met some of their other vile MEPs. Never saw Farage though. |  |
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| Dartford fire on 19:17 - Jul 19 with 694 views | jeera |
| Dartford fire on 17:54 - Jul 19 by Swansea_Blue |
He probably wasn’t even in Strasbourg half the time he should have been. One of my old sponsors had links to the UKIP MEPs, so I met his advisors a few times, met some of their other vile MEPs. Never saw Farage though. |
Took the money though huh? | |
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| Dartford fire on 19:23 - Jul 19 with 680 views | Pendejo |
Got home 20 mins or so ago to Armageddon like images of a whole street of houses on fire, horrendous. |  |
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| Dartford fire on 20:30 - Jul 19 with 615 views | Vic |
| Dartford fire on 19:23 - Jul 19 by Pendejo |
Got home 20 mins or so ago to Armageddon like images of a whole street of houses on fire, horrendous. |
Hope all is well with you and yours. How close to it all are you? |  |
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| Dartford fire on 20:33 - Jul 19 with 611 views | Vic |
| Dartford fire on 17:09 - Jul 19 by jeera |
Yes I am an adult with a car and everything. Of course I have.
I'm simply saying if anyone takes on board some advice/tips and makes them less thoughtless than usual it's better than nothing.
I've no idea how such a simple statement could draw so much controversy.
My actual point was the one about compost heaps you may have noticed which is not something we would all necessarily consider. |
One guy in the town has been talking about how he saw a compost heap go up in flames - though he’s not sure if that’s what started the fires.
I’ll be honest, I’ve never thought of them as a potential fire risk. | |
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| Dartford fire on 20:36 - Jul 19 with 608 views | loftboy |
| Dartford fire on 20:33 - Jul 19 by Vic |
One guy in the town has been talking about how he saw a compost heap go up in flames - though he’s not sure if that’s what started the fires.
I’ll be honest, I’ve never thought of them as a potential fire risk. |
There was one today on the A47 heading towards Yarmouth in the Hopton area. |  | | |
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| Dartford fire on 21:04 - Jul 19 with 577 views | jeera |
| Dartford fire on 20:33 - Jul 19 by Vic |
One guy in the town has been talking about how he saw a compost heap go up in flames - though he’s not sure if that’s what started the fires.
I’ll be honest, I’ve never thought of them as a potential fire risk. |
Dunno Vic, they can get pretty hot but I would guess it's a potential* problem more so if dry stuff is added to the top.
Although I stress again it was a single example of several things that some chap listed as possibilities of things people might not consider and yes, as you say, it was mentioned on the TV report.
Which was the only point I was making.
I'm sure there's a hundred ways fire can start. Including cigarettes which no one would have thought of apparently. Or some kind of magnifying device.
I jest, even those should be pointed out as some idiot won't think or care I'm sure.
* Just potentially for anyone who wants to be picky. [Post edited 19 Jul 2022 21:06]
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| Dartford fire on 02:27 - Jul 20 with 475 views | IPS_wich |
| Dartford fire on 16:43 - Jul 19 by jeera |
He hasn't got a clue about anything. He really is thick as sh1t.
Adam Hills was saying the other night how when it hits 40°C at home people tend to stay indoors. I've been to Aus and can confirm they don't take the hot weather lightly at all, as I'm sure the several residents on TWTD would agree. I have family in Aus and they say the same. Where does this ridiculous notion come from that regular folk who live in hot countries wander about in it outside all day like it's normal? They don't. They're not that stupid. What they have done is learnt to live with it which means treating the weather with some respect.
The other notable thing about that clip is much he bangs on about Strasburg. I didn't realise he was such a Francophile.
He certainly seems to like slagging off this country. |
To give the perspective from down under, there's a few comments I would make:
- There is no doubt British homes and public infrastructure isn't designed to cope with these sort of temperatures - but I find it really odd that people criticise those who are responsible for UK infrastructure when it struggles in extreme heat or lots of snow. Everything should be designed to be fit for purpose 95% of the time with a reasonable expectation that people change behaviours in the 5% of extreme heat or cold. Just to give a trivial example, Australian chocolate (which is mainly Cadburys) has an ingredient in it that means it doesn't melt as easily. And that ingredient makes the chocolate taste a bit funny (not as bad as US chocolate) - but that's the price you pay in order to have something that isn't a brown puddle.
- The mentality of Australians is to head for shade. We have some of the best beaches in the world and they are rarely packed - apart from Christmas Day, Australia Day and the big tourist beaches in Sydney (Bondi, Manly). For 9 months a year, kids are not allowed to play outside at school unless they have a big bucket hat on and five layers of sunscreen. When the temp is higher than 30c for 60-70% of the year the need to seize that one week of good weather and head to the beach isn't there. I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've sunbathed in direct sun in the last eight years.
- Despite the constant high temperatures, most of Australian life is outside, but we have the infrastructure for it and plenty of ways to keep the sun off. Every public park has multiple free to use BBQs, play areas that have shades over the top and everyone tends to have a foldable shade of some sort in the back of the car. Cafes and restaurants are legally required to have free water available for all patrons.
- Living life with day after day of 30-36c temperature is great - but once it gets to the high 30s and low 40s no one goes outside. In Perth, we had three times in the last summer with 5 consecutive days of higher than 40c and it was the equivalent of when it snows in the UK - everything stops. For the eight years we've been here we've gone to the same beach on Christmas Day - it is usually the busiest day of the year with a couple of thousand people at the beach (normally there's 300-400). Christmas Day 2021 it was 43c and there were probably 50 people at the beach (including us - because well, we're not fully Australian yet).
- Despite all these precautions, Australia still has the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
- Bushfires are an regular occurrence; it's just the ones 18 months ago were of a size and duration we don't normally see so they got global attention. On any given day in summer in Perth you can see 1-2 smoke columns on the horizon - all of which will be bigger than the ones in the UK over the last couple of days. It's a way of life to some extent and fire fighters (many of whom are volunteers) are held in really high regard. Most of the fires are peripheral to the main urban areas; but those living on the urban fringe will all have a bushfire emergency plan for their household.
- Sadly, over half of bushfires are started deliberately, which really beggars belief. Most Australians would have difficulty deciding who they think is a bigger scumbag between a firestarter and a pedophile.
- The flip side to all of this is that what is often not understood by people who don't live here (including us until we moved here) is that whilst infrastructure is designed for hot temperatures it isn't designed for the cold. Most places in Australia don't get cold in the way the UK does - I've only seen one mild frost in eight years. But, during July and August the temperature outside at night does drop to 5c-6c. And we live in houses that have no insulation, no central heating and single glazed windows with small holes in the frames to let hot air out in Summer. There was a report published this week that most houses will drop to 7-8c overnight - and that is bloody cold. We literally sit on the sofa with two jumpers on, two pairs of socks and under a blanket - and often can't feel the end of our fingers. The good news is that this is only for 8-10 weeks a year and before you know it the temperature is rising again. | | | |
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