The UK has been getting lashed with rain for weeks now, causing rivers to breach their banks, and fields and towns to be flooded. Many folk have been forced out of their homes because of the rising flood-water and many more have been evacuated as a precautionary measure. Power has been cut off to some areas, and road and rail communications disrupted (some pics of the flooding here – http://tinyurl.com/oeoxt2f)
(many more days of these rains and floods and Somerset will be independent of the rest of the UK long before Scots have had the chance to vote to be an independent nation once more)
Now on top of all the rain, we have strong winds to contend with. I am fortunate that despite . . .
the days of incessant rain I live in a part of the UK that so far has escaped any serious flooding, but when I took the dogs round the park after work today, the wind practically lifted me off my feet, such was its strength. As it was, with the wind at our backs, pushing us along, we were almost running and must have set a record for the fastest circuit of the park so far
And they say this bloody weather is the consequence of global warming?
Christ, I’d hate to imagine what global freezing would be like !
