Surely the adults in charge of the summer camp had phones?
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Quote: zooo @ 7th July 2025, 5:36 PMSurely the adults in charge of the summer camp had phones?
Probably, but I have no idea. Sometimes camps are intended as phone/Internet-free escapes to enjoy nature. The alerts came in at 1 AM, so everyone was likely sleeping and may have silenced their phones. The camp has been there for a century, so there's also a good chance that people might have ignored the warnings - I get them almost every time we get a heavy rain.
It was a perfect storm (bad choice of words): the busiest holiday weekend of the summer, kids are out of school, and it happened in the middle of the night. They found survivors (and bodies) 30 feet up in trees. My friend's mother's neighbor found two survivors up in a tree. Lots of miraculous rescues, but not enough, fortunately.
Let's focus on the incredible job being done by rescue workers - this Coast Guard rescue swimmer saved 165 people:
Remember The Maily Expressograph and the tories slagging off the London Mayor for bringing in Low Traffic Neighbourhoods?
Rishi Sunak even commissioned a report on them, hoping it would advise they were a terrible idea
When the report advised that no, they were a bloody good idea- Sunak buried the report (very ethical, thank God the tories are now finished)
Well, turns out Sadiq Khan was 100% correct and has saved countless lives. Is there no end to his treachery?
"London's low-traffic zones 'cut deaths and injuries by more than a third
Based on comparisons of more than a decade of road casualty statistics between 113 London LTNs and other roads that did not have them, the report's authors found that LTNs were associated with a 35% reduction in all injuries, rising to 37% for deaths and serious injuries.
In absolute terms, the study concluded, this meant that creating the LTNs prevented more than 600 road injuries that would have otherwise taken place, including 100 involving death or serious injury."
What an evil bastard.
Still, he won't get any credit in certain quarters, cos well, he's not "one of us" is he?
Stopping his citizens from being poisoned to death by toxins and ran over by speeding cars are just two of the reasons his knighthood was long overdue
Quote: lofthouse @ 7th July 2025, 9:09 PMBased on comparisons of more than a decade of road casualty statistics between 113 London LTNs and other roads that did not have them, the report's authors found that LTNs were associated with a 35% reduction in all injuries, rising to 37% for deaths and serious injuries.
In absolute terms, the study concluded, this meant that creating the LTNs prevented more than 600 road injuries that would have otherwise taken place, including 100 involving death or serious injury."
So if you limit traffic it will lower accident rates? Shocking!
I have a plan to reduce deaths and accidents to zero: Ban cars. Implement a 2 MPH speed limit for all other vehicles. Because it's all about saving lives, right?
And today, on the 7/7 memorial, twitter is swamped with right wing slime up in arms showing their utter disgust that this "Muslim mayor" is laying a wreath in Hyde Park
Like this knuckle dragging c*nt....
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[quote name="zooo" post="1291741" date="7th July 2025, 5:36 PM"]Surely the adults in charge of the summer camp had phones?[/quot\e]
Given that camps tend to be remote they may have been an issue around reception.
As for adults camps like these tend to use a lot of teenagers.
So sad .
It's very interesting and also fascinating to see into the mindset of an extreme leftist.
Lefthouse?
Quote: DaButt @ 7th July 2025, 6:03 PMProbably, but I have no idea. Sometimes camps are intended as phone/Internet-free escapes to enjoy nature. The alerts came in at 1 AM, so everyone was likely sleeping and may have silenced their phones. The camp has been there for a century, so there's also a good chance that people might have ignored the warnings - I get them almost every time we get a heavy rain.
It was a perfect storm (bad choice of words): the busiest holiday weekend of the summer, kids are out of school, and it happened in the middle of the night. They found survivors (and bodies) 30 feet up in trees. My friend's mother's neighbor found two survivors up in a tree. Lots of miraculous rescues, but not enough, fortunately.
Let's focus on the incredible job being done by rescue workers - this Coast Guard rescue swimmer saved 165 people:
I thought most vulnerable places had an automated siren/loudspeaker warning system in place? I've seen this on TV and even in films. And I think they need to be installing these more now, as whatever theory people believe or not, the weather has gone nuts and we are all at risk from these disasters.
And sympathies obviously to families there. I shudder whenever I hear young girls lives have been lost, as though it's a primeval response imbedded in us all and reminds me I'm human, despite my best efforts to prove John Donne's famous idiom wrong.
Quote: DaButt @ 7th July 2025, 9:20 PMSo if you limit traffic it will lower accident rates? Shocking!
I have a plan to reduce deaths and accidents to zero: Ban cars. Implement a 2 MPH speed limit for all other vehicles. Because it's all about saving lives, right?
Do you have a graph plotting deaths against mild inconvenience to drivers?
And, more importantly, where you feel the sweet spot is?
What lofty left out was that despite the howls of protest and predictions that increased traffic in the surrounding areas would proportionally increase accidents, thus negating any safety gains - it didn't.
The figures didn't change one jot.
Quote: Lazzard @ 8th July 2025, 9:30 AMWhat lofty left out...
Actually, to be fair, it's not what "lofty" left out, it's what the source from which he cut & paste left out.
Quote: Lazzard @ 8th July 2025, 9:30 AM...despite the howls of protest and predictions that increased traffic in the surrounding areas would proportionally increase accidents, thus negating any safety gains - it didn't.
The figures didn't change one jot.
Probably because the roads in the surrounding area are all gridlocked.
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 8th July 2025, 10:12 AMActually, to be fair, it's not what "lofty" left out, it's what the source from which he cut & paste left out.
Probably because the roads in the surrounding area are all gridlocked.
You're talking crap as usual
People like you :
"LTN's are terrible and should be banned and don't work"
Ten years later, figures, actual data proves they work extremely well AND HAVE SAVED MANY LIVES
People like you:
"Don't care, they're still rubbish"
So f**king childish
Admit you were wrong for once ffs
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 8th July 2025, 10:12 AMProbably because the roads in the surrounding area are all gridlocked.
Not so.
Starmer's popularity has dropped to 13% again or in other words, 87% disapprove.
The 13% mainly post on here.