Earthquake!

[Toddy]

That's a shame for the fellow in Devon though. He's unemployed, 63 years old and now he and his dog have to live in the kitchen.
Even if he has house insurance he might well not get anything because it's an 'Act of God', or Natural Disaster.

I know I was joking about it, but maybe he really does need help.

M

 

[Janne]

Off topic, as the Earthquake has passed,

We were surprised ...
S&rew it, I create a new thread!

 

[daveO]

Wait for the old pits heads and shafts to start opening up. Once met a man whos job was to drive around the country, finding old shafts (ie 500ft vertical) that had been stuffed with tree trunks years ago, when they sealed up. Wood rots and you get the idea. Alot of old hidden works round that way, north of swansea, could be very revealing. Sleep well.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-300ft-Cornish-mineshaft-captured-drone.html

Luckily, even though I'm in a big mining area, there are no worked seams too close to my house. I can look out the window up the hill behind me and see the remains of mining levels following the coal seam all along the hillside but they're all higher up. You find entrances like the one below occasionally (the one below is in NRW forestry at the end of my street). These would have gone straight into the hillside and there's usually a massive pile of spoil in front of them.

 

[Janne]

That is really cool!
A nice shelter when out and about and it rains!

 

[Toddy]

Luckily, even though I'm in a big mining area, there are no worked seams too close to my house. I can look out the window up the hill behind me and see the remains of mining levels following the coal seam all along the hillside but they're all higher up. You find entrances like the one below occasionally (the one below is in NRW forestry at the end of my street). These would have gone straight into the hillside and there's usually a massive pile of spoil in front of them.

There are pipes like that leading up out of some of the old pits around here that flow into the burns. They were originally connected to the pumps I believe, but as the pits are all flooded now (it's Lanarkshire, it's sodden wet, any hole in the ground gets flooded) sometimes stuff is still flushed out. One of my friends says he's found all sorts of stuff coming up out of the pits.
There must be currents moving down there somehow.

 

[daveO]

The local archeological society are surveying all the features in the area at the moment so I'm hoping they'll publish what they come up with. There's a lot of remnants of buildings and odd mystery bits of metal sticking out of the ground. There's not much on the OS maps and even the geological and mining maps don't show a lot of these old private levels.

 

[petrochemicals]

Not everyone was so lucky ....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5406151/Devon-cottage-collapses-UK-earthquake.html

I know its bad that his house collapses, bit Isnt that house built out of cocca powder ? If cornwall gets a big one there really could be deaths.

That's a shame for the fellow in Devon though. He's unemployed, 63 years old and now he and his dog have to live in the kitchen.
Even if he has house insurance he might well not get anything because it's an 'Act of God', or Natural Disaster.

I know I was joking about it, but maybe he really does need help.

M

Maybe all the facetious internet bullys should social media users should start a crowd funding exercise by way of making themselves feel better, pound a time !

 

[galopede]

I was in the Volunteer in Sidmouth at the time and I thought I'd felt a slight rumble. My daughter insisted it was the large bag of pork scratchings I'd eaten the night before.

They were good though.

Gareth

 

[woodstock]

The epi centre not far from a fracking site