[Gllug] Internet connections

John Hearns john.hearns at streamline-computing.com
Fri Jan 13 22:07:43 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 19:02 +0000, Chris Bell wrote:

> > 
>    It is difficult to figure out a sense of scale as concrete can be cast to
> any size, 
It is huge. The walls are 20 feet high at my estimation.

> but there does not appear to be much of a barrier there. I suppose
> they could have rotated the path through 90 degrees so that it was not
> damaged by a surge....
Indeed.
It is a spillway. Should the Thames flood and the barrier fail, water
will spill over here.


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