The fludd comes fleetinge in full faste,

one everye syde that spredeth full farre. For fere of drowninge I am agaste.

Bloody Ada - what a week.

Torrential rain for several days and nights. Severe Flood Warning (Danger to Life), on two rivers in Cornwall. Flood Warnings (Flooding expected - be ready to evacuate) on every river in Devon and Somerset, and most rivers in Dorset & Wiltshire. Flood Alerts (Flood possible - be prepared) on the rest. A 200-year-old canal burst a wall and chucked millions of gallons of water onto the Devon village of Halberton. Dozens of rivers broke their banks. Scores of towns and villages throughout the South-West were cut off by flood water (some still are). Roads impassable, the main Exeter to London railway line is navigable by boat but no longer by train. And - lo and behold - the national news programmes remembered that, yes, people do live south of Bristol!!

Thousands of fields left waterlogged and unusable. 800 homes uninhabitable. And a young Exeter woman, homeless and living in a tent, killed by a tree brought down in the gales. She was 21. In one of the better off countries of the world, a modern developed nation, a 21-year-old woman has to live in a bloody tent. It's disgraceful.

We were very lucky. We live at the top of a hill and were safe from the floods, and, while being so exposed we caught the force of the gales, the only damage was the loss of the back gate and a couple of shrubs.

It's stopped raining here, and the rivers are receding and the clean-ups beginning, but the rain is still falling elsewhere, it's simply moved north. Wales is currently being hammered and several towns are flooded. Gloucestershire has floods. There's flooding in Yorkshire. Flood Alerts all over the north-east of England.

It's unreal.

And look out Switzerland, Italy, and Southern France - it's heading your way at the end of the week.

Stay safe people.

The quote, by the way, is from Noyes Fludde - Number 3 in the Chester Mystery Plays Cycle. (In mediaeval times "mystery" meant "craft" not detective story *g*)

Ze

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