Heat wave precautions

How bad were the floods, LE? Didn't affect you, I hope. Nothing more miserable (and quite scary, too) than watching the water creeping up the walls.

Bad enough one's home being flooded out, but what about those with livestock, how do they manage?

Re the NHS, I will start another thread regarding a new circular sent round earlier today.
 
Some steadyish rain here and the birds started singing loudly since it started a few minutes ago, so they're obviously pleased about it!
 
Love Everlasting said:
Well yesterdays floods have gone down and we finally have a heatwave yipppeeee, has to rain again tomorrow though :(

Martin, if you don't mind me asking - where abouts are you, our thunderstorms started at 3 yesterday, with torrential rain until well after 6.30 and we had no electric till this morning.

As for the NHS, well the big cheeses have virtually closed our local hopsital(opened in 2002costing £67 million) - midwife led baby unit, no scubu, no childrens ward, no A&E, stroke unit now like an old peoples home, in favour of an old falling to bits hospital miles away.... which, this is the best bit, will cost well over £30 million to get it to the standard of Bishops..........!!! Common sense is well and truely out of the window there.
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Shitty South Shields.
 
I've been out in the garden with the sledge doing the wall down, love it must of burnt 500 calories.
 
Shadow Leader said:
You're not wrong, Krizon - and how dumb of me to forget frost!!

I know that it's the government that has screwed the NHS with their inane targets Redhead; I don't know all the mechanics of the system but I know the basics! Enough to know that the doctors, nurses etc are doing their best but are being shafted daily by those pricks obsessed with their 'targets'. It's a crying shame that that pillock Brown won't ever have to suffer the agony of being on a never ending waiting list when you needed surgery two years + ago! No, he sniffles and he's rushed straight in.

Actually, the worst part of it is the administrative staff in the waiting list offices who are worse than useless. The waiting list office doesn't bother answering their phones; they have an answerphone promising they'll get back to you and they're selective which messages they respond to - about one in three I reckon is the going rate. Then they throw vague comments at you like "I'll write to you"; "yes, I know you're marked as urgent"; "it'll be about two months" which morphs into "no, it was never going to be two months, it was always going to be three or four months"......arrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!
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I agree with this, and the taxes issues that Redhead raised in an earlier thread. Also it's worth bearing in mind that the average person's wait is made longer because some people have appointments made for them and fail to attend which is an obviously an appointment wasted that someone who genuinely needs it could have had. It happens in the GP surgeries and in the hospitals - is it any wonder that the waiting times are so long. Another thing that I see on a regular basis is medicines wastage which costs the NHS a huge amount of money e.g. people ordering medication that they don't even take anymore but don't want to tell their doctor. You'd be amazed at some of the stuff we get back in patient returns when somebody dies, boxes and boxes and stuff untouched dating back months and even years - I've had four years worth of the same medication from one person :blink:

The NHS obviously reimburses pharmacies/dispensing doctors the cost of the drugs, money which could be better spent elsewhere if people only thought about whether they really needed things or not. So, whilst all is not right at the top, there is plenty that some patinets could be doing to help themselves which in turn would make life easier for the rest of us.
 
Redhead, It was lookiing a bit dodgy for a while, as quite a few of the roads around the villages were flooded, so it meant a long way round for a short journey of dropping my cousin at her house less than a mile away.

A house in the next village caught fire after being struck by lightening, and my friends was too, it blew up their telly and all the lightbulbs but they were ok, rather that than a more scary situation, 20 yards from their house are 10 stables (all full and a hay barn) doesn't bare thinking about. A few houses kitchens at the bottom of the village were flooded but they flood every time we have heavy rain so that wasn't a surprise. My cousins have a beck that runs through their garden it totally flooded the paddock next to it where their ducks live and we were worried about them until they turned up at 10.30 last night.

We finally got our heatwave today its been lovely and i can't belive im still sitting outside. Just gorgeous, wish it was like this all the time.

Martin, im right down near Bishop Auckland so it must have been a whole North East thing, although friends in Darlo and Mboro had bright sunshine all day.
 
If only it was just a case of people missing clinic appointments, Imagine - last one I had was arranged within seven days! Now it's more important and surgery is urgently needed it ain't happening...
 
Shadz, shall I light the blue touchpaper underneath you on the subject of the NHS's useless £2 BILLION IT system, which is apparently still not fully useable? Fizzzzzzle... runs for cover...
 
Back to the heatwave for a moment... I figured that watering our communal garden this evening might mean that rain would be on its way. Just had an imposing roll of thunder, which'll be lovely if it really heralds rain, and not just overbearing humidity. We were really hot today, with very little in the way of a breeze to take the dead hand of it off us, so overnight rain would be lurrrrvely!
 
Hot and sunny is okay (even though I have to keep out of direct sunlight as much as possible), it's the airless oppressiveness of heat in towns and cities that I hate.
 
It worked like a dream! Moments after logging-off, there was another mighty roll of thunder and several bright flashes of lightning, followed by a cleansing, cooling blast of rain! No sun today, though - overcast, mild, getting a bit humid.
 
krizon said:
It worked like a dream! Moments after logging-off, there was another mighty roll of thunder and several bright flashes of lightning, followed by a cleansing, cooling blast of rain! No sun today, though - overcast, mild, getting a bit humid.
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Here at sunny Kempton we have had rumbles all night but it souded a long way off no rain as yet a tad coller but still hot,
 
We have had a few spots of rain, but nothing major. I'm off shift in 10 minutes, so I'm going for a beer or two and watch Wimblebum on telly.
 
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