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Looking at this photo I get the feeling that the Thames Barrier is struggling to do it's job. If a terrorist decided to place a bomb there the whole of London will be underwater.
Lol, I wejt to a nearby school when they built the Thames Barrier in 1984 at Woolwich so I remember all the fuss about it. The thing is though the water level then was nowhere near as high as it is now as can be evidenced by looking at the picture above. I get the feeling another barrier of some sort is going to have to be ressurected soon otherwise London is going to be in trouble as the width of the River Thames at Westminster where the Houses of Parliament and Big Benn are located is only 85ft. The photo below shows you what would happen if something happened to that barrier.
You just made a MSN headline where they mention a disaster and yet it hasn't happened lol
One I loved, Inhabitants of Tenerife are in panic after an earthquake left them waiting for Teide to erupt.
I read this and was like....the first I heard of it. What earthquake? What panic? I looked around, looked up at Teide and asked him, "Do you know anything about this?" Needless to say he didn't reply or else there would be an island wide panic XDXD
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I don't think Londoners realise how much of a problem the water rising is for them. I read an article saying that the Thames Barrier in Woolwich has had it's day and London needs to come up with something else to keep the water away otherwise it will be in trouble in a few years time. When you look at the first photo I posted you can see the barrier is straining, it was nothing like that twenty years ago.
There are a great many problems thanks to our abuse on this world. They did predict that parts of the UK would end up underwater but I dont think they meant due to rivers. Yes it does look strained, as usual they are most likely turning a blind eye to it as if it costs money
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The government are more interested in spending millions of pounds of tax payers money and building a 'garden bridge' across the Thames than they are on updating the Thames Barrier. I don't understand the logic behind that decision, it's a known fact that Thames Barrier needs updating, you'd think looking at the photos of it straining would be enough to get something done before it's too late.
That second photo is a promo shot from a 2006 disaster movie.
Surely building the barrier bigger will just be like adding more sandbags to your front door when all the windows are open. If the water gets that high no barrier will stop it.
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You could I suppose make the Thames Barrier higher but what about the land to the left and right of it? Those areas woud also need to be raised. The government have to tackle the problem soon the Thames Barrier currently protects 125sq km (48sq miles) of London, including an estimated 1.25 million people, 200 billion pounds worth of property and infrastructure, a large proportion of the London tube network and many historic buildings, power supplies, hospitals and schools. Without the barrier the Houses of Parliament, the O2 arena, Tower Bridge and areas of Southwark, Beckton, West Ham, Whitechapel would all be submerged in flood water.
Lol, I don't think it's as easy as that with the tide coming in and out from the Atlantic Sea and it needs to be 'controlled' like the Thames Barrier does now with it's ability to open and close.
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