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[Nickbat]

...but isn't the media going over the top? 

Many of us experienced the long hot Summer of 76, yet I don't recall "Heatwave Level 3" alerts, headlines about folks dropping like flies*, and so on.

We just got on and enjoyed it. (I know I did!  )


*"Hundreds perish as heatwave takes hold" - today's Times

[cleggy]

EXACTLY 

Some bloody jobs worth with nothing better to do than think up a name for a nice summer. Drought and hosepipe ban anyone

[Kevin Wood]

EXACTLY 

Some bloody jobs worth with nothing better to do than think up a name for a nice summer. Drought and hosepipe ban anyone

Must be on the cards soon, despite the fact that it P*ssed it down incessantly for the first 6 months of the year.

[aaronjb]

EXACTLY 

Some bloody jobs worth with nothing better to do than think up a name for a nice summer. Drought and hosepipe ban anyone

Must be on the cards soon, despite the pack that it P*ssed it down incessantly for the first 6 months of the year.

Funny you say that, I went and looked at my water authorities website yesterday (SE Water) just to see if they'd brought one in quietly.. but no, and they're still reporting their reservoirs at 100% & 89% capacity.

Though I still expect one to be announced next week!

As for remembering the long hot summer of '76.. I wasn't even a glimmer in my daddies eye by then

[Varche]

I remember 76.

I was competing in a UK rally series in my ultra,ultra lightweight Mini Cooper S. Perspex fixed windows (with a "hole" for the navigator), no fan/heater etc etc.

We nearly passed out on one event that used Bagshot.

[RossPhim]

EXACTLY 

Some bloody jobs worth with nothing better to do than think up a name for a nice summer. Drought and hosepipe ban anyone

Must be on the cards soon, despite the pack that it P*ssed it down incessantly for the first 6 months of the year.

Funny you say that, I went and looked at my water authorities website yesterday (SE Water) just to see if they'd brought one in quietly.. but no, and they're still reporting their reservoirs at 100% & 89% capacity.

Though I still expect one to be announced next week!

As for remembering the long hot summer of '76.. I wasn't even a glimmer in my daddies eye by then

I'm not sure about down south, but I would have thought it would be the same all over Britain.
The water companies have to be a lot cleverer than they were even 5 or 10 years ago about how the conserve the water supplies.
You wouldnt believe the millions of litres that were lost every year through leakage.
Things should be getting better year upon year.......hopefully.

My wee bro was born in South London in 76, and I was 7 FFS!   

[pscocoa]

I remember 1976 well - married 2 years, no kids, living in Leigh and playing for Leigh Rugby, several solid pubs on doorstep - during heatwave I was digging out a garage base and remember drinks out there on the hardcore surrounded by piles of soil. I had an MG Midget eventhough I was 6ft 6in and 18 stone. Add 5 stone to that now.

[SIR Philbutt]

I was 17 in 76 and have good memories of bunking off college, driving up to cowm park reservoir and sunning/swimming all afternoon with a bunch of mates (& girls oooh). And nobody drowned 

[MaxV6]

76,   we went to padstow for 2 weeks, then the lleyn for 4 weeks....    ,   came back to school with a better tan than my mates who'd been out to Bahrain ,  (and other similar middle eastern and oriental sorts of places )


(posh idiot public school , full of ex-pat's kids,    amazed i survived more or less intact as a normal person, ish....  )

[chrisgixer]

The Times?

Stop reading the Mail Express.


Now that paper IS obsessed by the weather. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Lost my cherry during the long hot summer of '76'.....

1983 was another hot summer if memory serves.

[Kate]

I was back home in Canada back then and can't remember it being hot there.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I was back home in Canada back then and can't remember it being hot there.

The Yukon rarely is, Kate.

[pscocoa]

Lost my cherry during the long hot summer of '76'.....

1983 was another hot summer if memory serves.

anyone we know - male/female?

[Vamps]

I remember 76 had a Red Mini which me and a mate painted black, added the LCB exhaust and 6" wide steel 10" wheels and wide tyres, that's what you did in those days.......