Midnight Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 (edited) After reading the Narrowboatworld article "Northern canals suffer in flood"https://www.narrowboatworld.com/12851-northern-canals-suffer-in-flood I was left with some confusion. I was on flood monitoring duties on 21st and can report to the my knowledge the River Calder didn't reach critical levels. I rang around various people in the area but nobody has seen or heard of damage to locks or Elland bridge or even any sunken boats. My colleague Big Jimmy is currently locked down in Todmorden and he reports same - no major issues. Does anyone here know of such catastrophe or did 'Victor' just regurgitate old news from 2015? Edited January 23, 2021 by Midnight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty40s Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 Most definitely old news, all the pictures are stolen from a few years ago, and Victor tries to peddle it a new. Perhaps he doesnt know about the Weaver, Shroppie or Wales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenA Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 This sounds odd “While the focus now is on planning our longer term response I’d like to pay tribute to our teams who were out over the holidays responding to issues, and also to recognise the many offers of support we’ve had from the waterways community. The response in very difficult conditions has been fantastic and our staff, contractors and volunteers have already been out cleaning towpaths and helping to restore access where possible. So I think it's an old article just rehashed to get them some clicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 21 minutes ago, Midnight said: My colleague Big Jimmy is currently locked down in Todmorden and he reports same - no major issues. And nothing happened in Hebden Bridge, other than that that there was quite a lot of water flowing over the side weir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tizzy Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 He also says that the Aire flooded the Aire and Calder Navigation. That would be difficult as they are combined in Leeds since the latest flood protection work was completed. Still why let reality get in the way of a good story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmelly Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 I have never looked in at Narrowboat world is it a forum like Thunderclap or a paper of sorts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Todd Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 15 minutes ago, mrsmelly said: I have never looked in at Narrowboat world is it a forum like Thunderclap or a paper of sorts? The proprietor likes to think of it as a newspaper (I believe he was once a print journalist) However, if the grown-up media really do what is annoying Google at the moment in Australia (if it works there others will soon follow) then NBW will have a hard time! (ie charging for lifting other news items) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Posted January 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 2 hours ago, mrsmelly said: I have never looked in at Narrowboat world is it a forum like Thunderclap or a paper of sorts? It is a bit like Thunderclap in so much as it's unbelievable some of the stuff that they write. I'm off to the naughty step now hoping to avoid a "Calling Arthur Marshal (sic)" type of response over there. PS At least we can spell his name right here. "INCOMING!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Marshall Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 8 minutes ago, Midnight said: It is a bit like Thunderclap in so much as it's unbelievable some of the stuff that they write. I'm off to the naughty step now hoping to avoid a "Calling Arthur Marshal (sic)" type of response over there. PS At least we can spell his name right here. "INCOMING!" Did they spell my name wrong? Many do. I haven't been to look - I like Tony, so I do keep an eye on the threads he's involved in, but not much else. I reiterate - I think they are perfectly within their rights to comment on anything I've ever said, and I'm sure they are doing so constructively and in the spirit of comradeship we all share as boaters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Posted January 23, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 5 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said: Did they spell my name wrong? Many do. I haven't been to look - I like Tony, so I do keep an eye on the threads he's involved in, but not much else. I reiterate - I think they are perfectly within their rights to comment on anything I've ever said, and I'm sure they are doing so constructively and in the spirit of comradeship we all share as boaters. I'm sure they are doing their best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bearwood Boster Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 There are some very nice folk over there who are pretty harmless...myself included.? I like a mooch in both places. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sueb Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 I've not taken them seriously since they mentioned me and got my sex wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 1 minute ago, sueb said: I've not taken them seriously since they mentioned me and got my sex wrong Now I don't blame him'Cause he run and hidBut the meanest thing that my daddy ever did Was before he left he wanted toName me SueHe musta thought That it was quite a jokeAnd it got a lot of laughs from lots a folksSeems I had to fight my whole life through 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenA Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 They seem to have an entire subsection dedicated to being nasty about people on here Remarkably pathetic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb Innisfree Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 Reminds me of '81, my niece & her hubby were visiting from South Africa and we were watching the TV news of troubles in SA, her hubby started laughing at the' latest' videos, he said they were several months old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 7 minutes ago, nb Innisfree said: Reminds me of '81, my niece & her hubby were visiting from South Africa and we were watching the TV news of troubles in SA, her hubby started laughing at the' latest' videos, he said they were several months old. I had exactly the reverse of that. Early '80s I was working in South Africa and watching TV the 'news' was showing the IRA UK bombings from about 10 years previously and presenting them as news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb Innisfree Posted January 23, 2021 Report Share Posted January 23, 2021 Mushrooms! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicknorman Posted January 24, 2021 Report Share Posted January 24, 2021 (edited) 12 hours ago, StephenA said: They seem to have an entire subsection dedicated to being nasty about people on here Remarkably pathetic. True, but then there are so many opportunities! ? At least it is well organised, such stuff is confined to a subsection whereas on here the nastiness about TB is spread throughout and peddled mostly by people who looked at it once 4 years ago when there was a concerted effort by CWDF stalwarts to join and demolish. Edited January 24, 2021 by nicknorman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Arthur Marshall Posted January 24, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 24, 2021 13 hours ago, StephenA said: They seem to have an entire subsection dedicated to being nasty about people on here Remarkably pathetic. Hadn't been anything in it for months last time I looked, last entry was about how the pub worked. More or less died off, I think. I presume it was set up when tb started and there was genuine anger & disgruntlement with some people on here and lots of bans etc and is more or less irrelevant to the forum now. There was a point to it at the start and probably too much trouble to tinker with the system to change the setup. Subforums are good for focussing attention on specific topics,as they are here. We don't have one on TB any more than we have a subforum dedicated to land rovers or planes - because what goes on there rarely interests us, and if it does, we just go and look. It's just two useful forums with different approaches and some overlapping members, for heavens sake. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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