"You sound to me as though you don't believe in free will," said Billy Pilgrim. "If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn't have any idea what was meant by free will. I've visited 31 inhabited planets in the universe...Only on Earth is there any talk of free will." -- K. Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

I am so glad I'm not in London today

If they threw some horse eyeballs into the Thames, also, it may be the apocalypse.

The headline reads A boy and thousands of fish are killed in Britain

A 14-year-old boy was killed in a lightning strike during sudden thunderstorms that sent 600,000 tons of raw sewage into the Thames, killing thousands of fish, officials said Wednesday.
Separate lightening strikes injured four 15-year-old girls in Hyde Park as heavy rains caused flooding and transportation headaches Tuesday.

The discharge was in floodwater that was allowed into the river to prevent the capital from flooding during storms on Tuesday, the Environment Agency said. It has ordered Thames Water to add hydrogen peroxide to affected areas of the waterway to save more fish.
"The sudden downpour meant that London's drainage network could not cope and was overloaded," the agency said in a statement.

"The storm sewage has resulted in vital oxygen reserves being used up, causing the fish kill."
The agency said the city's drainage network could not cope with even moderate rainfall and similar, smaller discharges happened 50-60 times a year.

Thames Water said it may take some days for the water to clear as the Thames is tidal and the sewage will move up and down the river with the current.


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