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Martin_1962

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BBC Flood pics
« 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?
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #1 on: 25 June 2007, 18:13:50 »
no. 4 - no idea where it is but there's a miggy in the pic!!!  ;D
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #2 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  :-?
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #3 on: 25 June 2007, 18:56:44 »
looks like i made it back over the wall onto the high ground just in time  :o
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #4 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 :-/
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #5 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
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #6 on: 25 June 2007, 21:21:28 »
Surely TomTom Traffic should have worked out a clear route?
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #7 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 :-/
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #8 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 :(
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #9 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
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #10 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
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Re: BBC Flood pics
« Reply #11 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


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