severn

Here in the UK, it is raining incessantly, and Worcester up the road is flooding due the Severn bursting its banks.

Also the UK seems to include the Grand Union canal and River Severn but not the River Thames.

Note how, other than London, only one (Southampton/Portsmouth) of the top ten is below the Severn Wash line.

That Severn project has on-again, off-again cycles that are typical of so many UK infrastructure projects.

We've been planning things in the Severn Estuary my entire life and so far not lit a single lightbulb from it.

There are plans for big tidal barrage projects, especially in the Severn Estuary.

Meanwhile, competent governments Severn Trenting everything is textbook (on the political left).

A Severn Barrage would be in an estuary and could generate up to 7% of the UK's electricity demand, depending on what location was chosen for the barrage.

No region of the United States is grossly wealthier or poorer than others to the extent that the Severn Wash in the UK divides the poor north with the wealthy south.

Anyway, I'll be giving serious consideration to dragging my family out early to see a five star Severn Bore the weekend after next, it could be the last one ever.

Same here in the UK Poxy factory chicken farms built on the banks of our longest and most beautiful river, the River severn, and then dumping all the shit from those farms into the river.

This causes a huge imbalance, wherein London 1) sucks up most of the capital and human energy that would otherwise supply cities south of the Severn Wash, and 2) sucks up much of the capital and human energy that would otherwise supply the country north of the Severn Wash.

> The team have named the species Ichthyotitan severnensis, meaning “giant fish lizard of the Severn”.

If you enjoy this bit of physics, and you're wondering if water flowing the "wrong direction" is something that happens in real life, aside from the other comments about wind-induced counterflow, definitely look up the Severn bore[1], too, which is a tidal bore that makes the river Severn flow inland twice a day, with wave fronts that can be large enough for folks to "surf upstream".

See the river Severn, whos estuary tidal range is 15 metres, and the second highest in the world.

When you put it that way it reminds me of the Severn/Keats character in the Hyperion Cantos.

Back in England, he was the first man to ride the River Severn's five-foot tidal bore and designed his own board.