That would be useful, except the other schools are still in session later; this film has scenes of some of them being evacuated at 5 p.m. (which I thought a little late, but my friend assures me that that's possible depending on the school's calendar, after-school activities, etc.), so I know it can't be a holiday for all the schools. Either there's something that affects just their school (and if that's possible, what could it be?) or the film's writer/s dropped the ball when it comes to keeping the details accurate and reasonable in this area (which is quite possible--it wouldn't be the only ridiculous thing in the film). It is a bit of a throwaway line, but it's significant for other things later, so I wanted to try to get it sorted out as the mom will have a discussion about it at some point in the story.
Edit: It occurs to me, though, as I look at the school holidays . . . there could be a holiday affecting schools in one area but not the others, yes? Like one . . . looks like "local authority" is the term . . . that has a
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Don't forget that Greenwich and Woolwich are significantly downriver of central London - a flash flood in Westminster on a sufficiently large scale would mean the complete inundation of almost everything north of Blackheath.
Woolwich isn't a separate local authority; it's part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
I've just read the synopsis of Flood and I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
I grew up in Hammersmith, near the river, and remember the 1952 flood, and flood warning sirens sounding for practice other years. I remember the relief after the Barrier was built and the number of occasions when it has been successfully raised. Definitely not in the "wrong place" and I'm baffled at the very idea that getting rid of it would help anything except the areas down river from it.
I'm baffled by the storm surge element. That was the killer in 1952: low atmospheric pressure plus winds from the North pushing extra high tides down the funnel of the North Sea. When this happens, both sides of the North Sea get hit, moving southward. Rain coming down the Thames is more relevant than rain in the area
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Lol, well, the book is a lot better thought-out than the film. A lot of the details had to be dropped or modified for the screen (only one of the characters is the same, far fewer characters over all, and they left out the fire, and moved everything earlier in the day, etc.), and reality suffered for it. But the acting is awesome overall! So I am pretending the film canon is somewhat realistic while borrowing a lot of details from the book to make the fic more realistic overall. Besides, the focus of my fic isn't so much the science, it's the human element of dealing with the aftermath--including the grief of not being able to save one's own loved ones
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Some very good reasons for forgetting Volcano, lol; the science is awful. My cousin and I watched it and spent the whole time laughing at stuff ("what, you're gonna just walk through that lava till you die? come ON"). I've never watched it since; I have no desire to.
You'll want to read that book, then; they make a mention of the low pressure being *extremely* low, recorded by a Dutch team flying a C-135 (I think it was), sort of hurricane watchers thing. The rest of the book doesn't focus on any other countries because London's so overwhelmed by not expecting things to actually overtop the Barrier (there's a lot on why the warnings didn't get sent out in time and how the mixture of human judgment with forecasting meant that people didn't want to cry wolf when they weren't sure, etc.), and the book was just on them (they didn't have time to think about what anyone else was facing). I think you'd find the facts as presented in the book a little bit more reasonable than the film! Richard Doyle - Flood
I'll look out for the book, though the depression thing still sounds dodgy: depressions are the class of thing that the Meteorological Office keeps a close eye on because of all the nasties that go with them - particularly since the "hurricane" (that wasn't really) in the late 80s that left Michael Fish with egg all over his face.
Fraught with wrong details as the film may be, it has captured my imagination, lol, and I have a question that I need someone who knows the London area (my English friend's from Yorkshire, so she's good with general stuff but really doesn't know London). It may be that you won't know the answer (or if it's too complicated, may not want to go into it), but I figured I'd ask
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School Holidays in London, 2016-2017
London City School District Academic Calendar 2016-17
(I searched 'london schools calendar'.)
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Woolwich isn't a separate local authority; it's part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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I grew up in Hammersmith, near the river, and remember the 1952 flood, and flood warning sirens sounding for practice other years. I remember the relief after the Barrier was built and the number of occasions when it has been successfully raised. Definitely not in the "wrong place" and I'm baffled at the very idea that getting rid of it would help anything except the areas down river from it.
I'm baffled by the storm surge element. That was the killer in 1952: low atmospheric pressure plus winds from the North pushing extra high tides down the funnel of the North Sea. When this happens, both sides of the North Sea get hit, moving southward. Rain coming down the Thames is more relevant than rain in the area ( ... )
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You'll want to read that book, then; they make a mention of the low pressure being *extremely* low, recorded by a Dutch team flying a C-135 (I think it was), sort of hurricane watchers thing. The rest of the book doesn't focus on any other countries because London's so overwhelmed by not expecting things to actually overtop the Barrier (there's a lot on why the warnings didn't get sent out in time and how the mixture of human judgment with forecasting meant that people didn't want to cry wolf when they weren't sure, etc.), and the book was just on them (they didn't have time to think about what anyone else was facing). I think you'd find the facts as presented in the book a little bit more reasonable than the film! Richard Doyle - Flood
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