Flooding Across England

By Gaz under Movies, Ramblings

Earlier this week, on a chance comment from one of Tave’s myspace buddies, I decided to have a look at some of the news coverage of the weather in Blighty. In my home town of Worcester, it’s a fairly common occurrence to see a sponsored swim across the cricket ground at Easter, and a few years back some of the staff from Motex Harley Davidson took their surfboards down to New Road as a publicity stunt…

So, leafing through the viewers’ pictures on the Beeb’s flood coverage pages, I saw a photo of what could easily have been my car being swept down the river Severn and smashing apart as it hit the bridge between North and South Worcester. The worst of the flooding has hopefully passed, but the sewage and water contamination will certainly take time to clear up, and the impact on the economy may very well push the rocketing prices in England even higher.

The weather (and, as a Brit I get to obsess about the weather) has been truly awful this year, claiming several lives, and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without water, electricity and or their entire home. Ian posted mind boggling rainfall statistics yesterday at his blog.

The photo above is a still from Tony Mitchell’s prescient movie, Flood. Doesn’t bear thinking about