Bob W wrote: > My house is at the apex (?) of the large oxbow in the centre of the > picture.
Dude, without even looking at the photo, you're toast. Oxbows might even be worse than alluvial plains (I think that's the term) for flooding. If you're going to live next to a river, make it a young one rather than an old one. Though I'd be surprised if there were very many young rivers in Jolly Old Blighty. :-) When /was/ the last mountain building phase that affected the British Isles? -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net