Well, That Was a Long Weekend.

This past Bank Holiday Weekend London has seen the Notting Hill Carnival.

This is billed by organisers as; "Europe's Street Party." In reality it is a orgy of violent crime.

Beyond the usual robberies, sexual assaults, stabbings, shootings and acid attacks at least 50% of the time it ends in some form of rioting. Many local residents have taken to simply boarding up their properties, paying for private security patrols and evacuating the area.

The main flashpoint of the weekend is normally the Ladbroke Grove area. This is right by the scene of the June 13th (13/6/17) into June 14th (14/6/17) Grenfell Tower fire.

It is strongly suspected that the UK Labour Party who have strong links to carnival organisers set the Grenfell Tower fire.

At the lower end of their objectives this was done to bring down Kensington & Chelsea council which is elected by and represents the interests of the local residents who are force to evacuate from the path of the carnival.

This year carnival organisers decided to make the Grenfell Tower fire the focal point of the events. The official theme for the carnival was; "Green for Grenfell."

Green is a very significant colour within Islam. According to the Qu'ran Heaven is bathed in green with green cushions and carpets and green garments of fine silk. Martyrs are often referred to as; "Green Birds."

So by instructing carnival goers to wear costumes of green bird's feathers carnival organisers seemed to be making it very clear they consider the Grenfell Tower fire to be a Islamist-style Martyrdom operation like a suicide attack. They also seemed to be making clear they fully support it.

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire London has experienced a significant increase in rioting and violent disorder orchestrated by the Labour Party. This included an attack on the offices of Kensington & Chelsea council four days after the fire.

As a result there has been a high level of concern that Labour would use the Notting Hill Carnival to kick off big time. In the name of their Grenfell Tower Martyrs.

On a related note BBC1's big Bank Holiday weekend drama was an adaptation of the J.K Rowling novel; "Strike: Cuckoo's Calling." This featured long speeches about the aspects of social housing policy which the Labour Party have tried putting at the centre of their Grenfell Tower campaign. Quite the achievement with production ending before the fire.

The Notting Hill Carnival also presents a specific security risk to me. Long term readers will know all about the problems I've had with the Labour-linked the Notting Hill Housing Trust. This social housing provider obviously has its roots in the Notting Hill area of London. During carnival their supporters tend to get a bit over excited.

As a result Britain has spent the weekend issuing heavy, coded threats to Labour and carnival organisers to behave themselves.

On Friday (25/8/17) there was a security incident at London's Buckingham Palace. A Muslim man parked his car outside the Palace with a large sword on the passenger seat. Two police officers then mildly injured themselves in a cloud of their own CS gas while arresting him.

Palaces are obviously where Sovereigns live. When it comes to sword attacks this particular Sovereign is something of a veteran.

On Sunday (27/8/17) - the official start of carnival - police made a further arrest in the case raiding a property in west London. The exact address has not been made public but I suspect it was in the Notting Hill area or closely linked to carnival organisers. Most likely through the ownership of the property.

I spent Saturday (26/8/18) night with a police helicopter hovering overhead for the best part of seven hours.

Officially this was to monitor a man who'd climbed a construction scaffold at a Veterinary clinic. When Britain used the death penalty they used to hang people from scaffolds. So this was; "The Man on the Scaffold Attacking the Vets."

Shortly after I went to bed the police helicopter was re-deployed to monitor the evacuation of a Grenfell Tower style housing block during a fire alert. This was caused by someone using a barbecue on their balcony. A curious thing to do at 2AM.

Due to the scale of the security threat presented by carnival the police have to dedicate two helicopters entirely to it. Unlike other public events like football matches and music festivals the organisers don't have to pick up the bill for this.

The weird thing though was this Hurricane Harvey which struck the US state of Texas.

Notting Hill Carnival weekend begins on Friday evening. However the carnival itself doesn't officially begin until Sunday. The serious violence tends to occur on Monday night. So following the initial impact you get several tense days as the level of destruction rises.

Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Friday evening. However unless it breached sea defences which it didn't the main concern was not the initial impact. Instead it was the onshore flooding that would build following that initial impact to an expected peak on Monday evening.

So Hurricane Harvey provided an almost perfect base for coded discussions about the Notting Hill Carnival security operation.

For example while I was being deafened by this helicopter various US government Twitter accounts sent out messages with a list of telephone numbers for people to call. Since then my PC has been asking if I'd like to establish a dial-up connection. Don't even get me stated on the problems this has caused Carnival Cruise Lines based out of Corpus Christi.

On Sunday (27/8/17) Britain experienced its own destructive cloud blowing in from the sea. This was an acid haze blowing onto beaches around Sovereign Harbour in East Sussex causing them to be evacuated.

This seemed to be further sign of Britain struggling to follow any potential coded discussions surrounding Hurricane Harvey. The were more concerned about acid attacks at Notting Hill Carnival.

That concern was very real. Just two hours after events in East Sussex one of the charming carnival goers did indeed spray a large crowd with acid. This triggered a stampede potentially leading to a disaster on the scale of the 2010 disaster at the Love Parade in Germany. There 21 people were killed and over 500 injured.

On Monday (28/8/17) La Porte, Texas experienced a chemical emergency of its own. Residents were urged to stay indoors amid reports that a cloud of Hydrogen Sulphide had been released from a local chemical plant.

The East Sussex chemical cloud was widely reported as being Chlorine Gas. If you've built up the experience of Chemical Weapons agents I have over the years it was very obviously not Chlorine Gas. Instead it was some variant of Sulphuric Acid similar to Hydrogen Sulphide.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) also got in on the act. On Friday (25/8/17) they marked the start of the Notting Hill Carnival weekend with a missile test.

On technically Tuesday (29/8/17) they marked the end of the carnival weekend with a second missile test. This one flew over Japan triggering carnival-style air-raid warnings causing panic and forcing people to seek a place of safety.

On technically August 9th (9/8/17) the DPRK announced it was drawing up plans to test fire missiles close to the US territory of Guam. Their leader Kim Jong-Un would make a final decision in mid-August.

In part this was in reference to UK Prime Minister Theresa May's mid-August decision on the structure and scope of a public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire. As I said at the time the Labour Party can't seriously expect the cover-up to last.

As for what is now Tropical Storm Harvey it has turned out worse then anyone expected.

The initial estimates were that the flood waters would peak on Monday (28/8/17). However it has already produced more than a year's worth of rain in two days. This has prompted the National Weather Service whom everyone rely upon for information to re-draw their maps to increase their flood predictions. The flood peak is now not expected until sometime on Thursday (31/8/17).

The city of Houston has been particularly hard hit prompting people to question why it was not evacuated before Harvey hit.

In Hurricanes the main form of flooding is coastal flooding. High winds produce a storm surge which causes sea levels to temporarily rise about the level of the land. As a result the sea expands over the land.

The other common cause of flooding is river flooding. This is the result of rivers having more water in them then the river bed can hold. As a result the river expands over the land. Storm surges can actually have a damning effect on rivers forcing them to flow back upstream.

These two types of flooding a relatively easy to predict. The worst affected areas are going to be the areas close to the sea and the areas close to the rivers.

What we're seeing in Texas is flash flooding. Simply rain falls on an area faster then the standing water can be absorbed into the water table or run-off into rivers and the sea. This is extremely hard to predict and can happen anywhere where it can rain.

The unpredictability of flash flooding makes it near impossible to tell which areas you need to evacuate people from and which areas it is safe to evacuate people to. Then there are the dangers of the evacuation itself.

The deathtoll from Houston includes a family of six who tried evacuating the area. Their vehicle was caught up in flash flooding and was swept away causing them to drown.

Therefore the best approach is really what Houston has been doing. Wait for the flooding to hit so you can coordinate a rescue effort once you know the areas that need to be evacuated and the areas it is safe to evacuate people to.

11:30 on 29/8/17 (UK date).