Water, water, everywhere...
Aug. 24th, 2004 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slycatAnother British summers day, another torrential downpour. Today it looked particularily bad where I was. I was beginning to worry that I may need to swim home from work! Fortunately, the rain which had been pretty much continuous since the start of the day stopped just before I was due to go home. So miraculously, I didn't get wet on the way home. It was quite obvious that many roads weren't made to withstand such rain however as some roads were either partially or completely underwater! As it wasn't raining and I had my camera phone with me (great thing about camera phones is that you need your phone with you at all times so if you ever need to take a snap of something interesting, it's there to use) and so took some photos of the mess.
This was taken from a small road just ouside my work, the entire road was flooded
This was taken from the main road on my way to the train station
Finally, this was on the main road outside the train station - no more pavement!
Yes, possibly a selection of dull photos there but I thought it was pretty cool at the time. I guess it's just interesting to see such chaos caused by a small freak of nature.
This was taken from a small road just ouside my work, the entire road was flooded
This was taken from the main road on my way to the train station
Finally, this was on the main road outside the train station - no more pavement!
Yes, possibly a selection of dull photos there but I thought it was pretty cool at the time. I guess it's just interesting to see such chaos caused by a small freak of nature.
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Date: 2004-08-24 12:48 pm (UTC)Around here, quite a few roads have permanently-installed flood warning signs that can be folded down whenever they're needed. A bit further East into the Wash, you get sections of A-road with depth posts along the side, so people in Land Rovers can see how many feet of water there are and decide whether or not to risk driving through the flood. (-8
Maybe by the next time my village floods, I'll have a digital camera, so I can take you a picture of it.
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Date: 2004-08-24 12:49 pm (UTC)Though my sister lives near to Bocastle in cornwall :P meh
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Date: 2004-08-24 02:13 pm (UTC)Good cameraphone you got there, i dont think mine takes photos that come out that well at that size.
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Date: 2004-08-24 03:04 pm (UTC)Yeah, most people can only manage horrible, blurry, postage-stamp sized photos. However the camera on this phone, the Nokia 6600, I can take snaps at 640x480. Still rubbish for photos in the dark of course as there's no flash. Camera phones are good for impulse snaps considering you have your phone with you most the time but for what they cost these days, digicams are much better value.
The new Nokia 7610 (essientially the new version of my phone) and the Siemens S65 can do 1 megapixel and up on their cams so the technology is getting better all the time.
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Date: 2004-08-24 03:06 pm (UTC)Never much found a use for it so far mindyou.
Case in point
Date: 2004-08-24 03:20 pm (UTC)