Thames Barrier saves London from flooding in record-breaking tidal surge

[smurfy]

[QUOTE=Memobot;43133330]The Thames Barrier has only got a few years left before it becomes useless though. Isn't 2020 the year it can't take rising sea levels?[/QUOTE]

2030, after which its protection will slowly decrease. They're currently exploring ways to upgrade it and extend its usefulness until 2070

[Nitronik]

Italy has a lot to learn from Britain, it seems

[TheNukeNL]

[QUOTE=Lurklet;43133071]now I remember.

now I want to play red alert 2.[/QUOTE]

From the wiki page:

[QUOTE]After moving their government to Canada, Allied intelligence has discovered that the Soviets have put another psychic device in Chicago, the Psychic Amplifier, which has the power "to do to the country what the Psychic Beacon did to Washington". The Allies promptly launch an offensive into Soviet-occupied Chicago from their Canadian base across Lake Michigan, freeing the city and destroying the Psychic Amplifier. But in retaliation, General Vladimir, the chief commander of the invading Soviet forces, declares that he no longer has much use for the city of Chicago, so he deploys a nuclear missile in the city, completely destroying it killing everyone except the Commander who escaped.[/QUOTE]

So it is the fourth mission

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=Sableye;43127370]whats worse theyve closed them more frequently in the last decade than in the first 2 decades before that[/QUOTE]

That's kinda been the case with flood barriers all over Europe. And in places that didn't have any to close, they started building them like mad.

[lirro433]

Well if something would go wrong then look at the bright side. London is the new venice :v: