Floody Hell! Again

[blur_kiwi]

Since just after Christmas, this is what my outside world has mainly consisted of. The floods are back, some villages are cut off completely, some roads - big and small - are inaccessible and the whole region is under emergency measures (whatever that means.) For a while we were a news story; for a while we had national sympathy and international

Comments

[meathiel]

That looks really bad. I have to admit it hasn't been on our news anymore either ... I guess peoples' attention span is just short these days and they feed us new news every day ...

I hope your house is on higher ground and safe???

[blur_kiwi]

Thanks. Yes we live halfway up a hill. It's funny, I volunteer on an archaeology project called 'The Lost Islands of Somerset' - they don't seem to be lost any more! All the hills and higher ground stand out as islands in the floods again.

But living halfway up a hill doesn't completely save us from flooding - the field behind our house is so saturated that any rain we have just runs off, and that can sometimes get close to coming in out house, so we're still on alert even so. :)

[kiwirazzi]

Oh my, another man-made problem that shows and proves yet again that we're doing our best to destroy this beautiful planet we're living on. :( But even though catacylsms like that tend to happen more often every year, "we" (generally speaking) somehow don't seem to learn anything from it. Meh. :(

[blur_kiwi]

Thanks. Your icon says it all for me! :)

You're right. Except I would say that this is also a man-made landscape (a bit like The Netherlands) so we've only got ourselves to blame if it all goes horribly wrong. I know of my family living here as far back as 1650 at least, so it isn't like we weren't warned!

And it does make for some interesting photos, if nothing else! :))

[gaia_child]

The photos look really gloomy...no wonder the water gives you a depressing feeling. One surely wonders when this will end.

Do you connect the floods to global warming thing? I think there is something like climate change. Take our warm and snowless winters which only start at the end of January... Winters used to come much earlier before!

I hope you feel ok. Take care:)

[blur_kiwi]

Thanks Monika

С днём рождения!

[lenavoronova]

Re: С днём рождения!

[blur_kiwi]

спасибо!

Thank you so much, I loved your video. :))

[laviergedeneige]

This does look depressing. But I hope that you have a really happy Birthday in spite of all.
I hope the water will go back soon.

[blur_kiwi]

Thank you so much. It was a quiet, relaxing birthday, but the celebrations go on this weekend, when I have friends visiting for a special Sunday lunch.

As far as the photos are concerned, I don't think it will change for quite a while yet - but I'm looking forward to getting back to normal! :))