Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "RAF Chinook drops sandbags on weakened Derbyshire reservoir" video.

  1. Caused by a lack of investment but just miraculously happened during the worst rainfall in the area for half a century...
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  2.  @katherine9798  A weather scientist without a Ph.D, I'll stick with the millions of scientists who have actually finished university, cheers. You know, the ones that don't need to create their own website in order to be seen or heard.
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  3. #FreeOtherConvictsToo
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  4.  @terencegayle6015  Well you can't privatise something and then complain when another nation buys it, supposedly nationalising stuff is evil and socialist so it's better if China, France and the US own most of our infrastructure.
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  5.  @firstname4865  True, but we also have cretins that purchase the most expensive fighter jet on Earth long before it's ready, warships that can't travel in warm water without breaking down and helicopters that have the wrong engines. You can have a trillion pound military budget but it doesn't get you much if the person in charge of procurement swaps it for some magic beans...
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  6. "She lives in a pineapple under the reservoir..."
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  7. They are one tonne each and a Chinook can carry 10 tonnes so having trips of 8 and 6 bags is fine.
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  8. You can blame it on the rain when you get a year's worth in 2 days.
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  9. You won't convince many people you are smarter than them when you've no idea what an Earthen Dam is...
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  10. It will work.
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  11.  @artfulsaladdodger  the flight computer does it all, the pilot puts the heli in auto-hover and then the loadmaster in the back has a joystick and a screen showing a downward view where he can maneuver the heli with precision to drop each bag. The pilot just gets the thing there and back.
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