That British obsession..................

[beelady]

This is written mostly for my MMTC&F friends, who have most of them been in the grip of storms and polar vortex consequences

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[anonymous]

I'm living in Worcester, right in the centre of England, not far from the banks of the river Severn, the longest river in Britain. Fortunately we are high enough not to be flooded. The ground is sodden and my allotment soil is like blancmange. The floods have become more frequent over the last 10 years and today reached the previous highest ever recorded level. I have a friend who lives in a house by the Cathedral. She chooses to live there as it is a beautiful spot when it's not flooded. Her ground floor is tiled as for a swimming pool to enable her to hose it down once the flooding has subsided. In the city traffic across the two bridges is a nightmare, pedestrians only on the old bridge, with the aid of free buses to carry them across the flooded access to the bridge, and they needed a higher bus today, Tonight I feel for my frends and sheer weight of traffic causing problems on the other newer Carrington Bridge. Extra flood defences have been added along the river over the last few years to prevent places flooding downstream, at