It’s A Bit Wet
It’s now been over two months running of almost autumnal weather here in the UK. Give or take a few days here and there, Summer hasn’t begun yet at all. Last Friday, a massive weather system rolled over central England dumping double the monthly average of rain on the area in less than 24 hours. Flooding has been the obvious result. At the moment, 350,000 homes are without clean water, thousands are without electricity, hundreds of people are currently living in emergency shelters. One county ran out of emergency services and the military had to be called in (almost unheard of in Britain). There are queues in supermarket car parks as people start to panic-buy groceries and bottled water.
The excess water is now making it’s way down river and the government is warning the worst is yet to come. Parts of my town centre is likely to flood later this evening.
Update: 24 July 2007
Just been down to The Embankment in town where flood levels have peaked. We didn’t get anywhere near the same volume of flood water as others in other parts of the country. Unfortunately however, the only death to come of these floods did happen here. We arrived minutes before a body was dragged from the river.
Other photos can be found on Flickr.
This post will be updated if or when there’s something new to report.
