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Title: BBC Flood pics
Post by: Martin_1962 on 25 June 2007, 17:59:32
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6237468.stm

1 is built on a flood plain - oh look it's flooded
4 is that whay I think it is?
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: sounds2k on 25 June 2007, 18:13:50
no. 4 - no idea where it is but there's a miggy in the pic!!!  ;D
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: Bo Bo on 25 June 2007, 18:26:36
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no. 4 - no idea where it is but there's a miggy in the pic!!!  ;D
One of our members got stranded near there yesterday  :-?
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: Markie on 25 June 2007, 18:56:44
looks like i made it back over the wall onto the high ground just in time  :o
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: Timbuk on 25 June 2007, 19:20:23
EP and myself have just had one hell of a game in North Shropshire, must have turned back on five seperate occasions due to flooded roads, never managed to reach our intended target, his Tom Tom was spitting its dummy out in the end :-/
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: Admin on 25 June 2007, 21:15:24
You want to get a proper sat nav that will automatically re-route around floods!  ;)

Actually much more of this weather and that will become a very marketable feature!  ;D
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: TheBoy on 25 June 2007, 21:21:28
Surely TomTom Traffic should have worked out a clear route?
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: Timbuk on 25 June 2007, 21:26:35
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Surely TomTom Traffic should have worked out a clear route?

It was all single track back roads, didn't have a clue :-/
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: TheBoy on 25 June 2007, 21:33:31
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Surely TomTom Traffic should have worked out a clear route?

It was all single track back roads, didn't have a clue :-/
I guess Traffic only works on major roads, similar to Trafficmaster and similar :(
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: STMO123 on 25 June 2007, 21:52:11
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You want to get a proper sat nav that will automatically re-route around floods!  ;)

Actually much more of this weather and that will become a very marketable feature!  ;D

It would have had to advise taking the ferry today
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: Elite Pete on 25 June 2007, 22:08:07
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EP and myself have just had one hell of a game in North Shropshire, must have turned back on five seperate occasions due to flooded roads, never managed to reach our intended target, his Tom Tom was spitting its dummy out in the end :-/

The funny thing was we were following a bloke in a large Volvo 4wd thing and the wimp wouldnt drive through 18" of water :o
Title: Re: BBC Flood pics
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 26 June 2007, 06:28:13
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Surely TomTom Traffic should have worked out a clear route?

It was all single track back roads, didn't have a clue :-/
I guess Traffic only works on major roads, similar to Trafficmaster and similar :(

Only if you have a RDS-TMS arieal (and then not very well) or subscribe to the service and have the tomtom hooked up to your mobile (and not all mobile operators support this) to download the info  :y