With weather in Southern England
so bad severe flood warnings are set everywhere, especially places near the
Thames River as it threatens to rise further. The emergency services have
already been brought in to places such as Surrey to aid those in need of help.
This sudden rainfall just shows
that Britain is also a country in need of aid. Many people have been evacuated
from their houses, many farms have been lost. People are living without any
source of power or ways to get to their town to collect food and other
supplies.
The photos on these websites are
shocking. With many people walking around knee deep or waist deep in water is
dreadful. Cars left abandoned as they have been flooded. Houses surrounded by
water and fields lost. Why has this happened this year? And how has it
happened?
I drove down to Exeter from
Buckinghamshire on Friday evening and it was currently one of the worst drives
I have ever gone through. The journey was 3 and a half hours. Driving through
torrential rain forced me to drive around 40mph in a 60 just because I could
not see the road properly. I could see the cars in front of me dramatically moving from side to side as a gust of wind hit them, taking over their
direction.
I had Heart radio on to keep
myself up to date with any possible accidents that could affect my journey. For a while the radio station were giving
reports of traffic and incidents every 15 minutes. The weather had blown down a
wall of bricks, covering the road, trees were covering roads and unfortunately
many accidents were happening. Fortunately my journey did not consist of much
traffic at all and no incidents. I was very lucky.
After these horrific days the
weather still likes to show us just how nice it can be. Today’s glorious sun
has come out with a background of clear blue sky and a few patches of cloud.
Fingers crossed that this weather holds up and repairs can be made for those in
need of it.
http://news.sky.com/
http://www.itv.com/news/uk/
http://www.channel4.com/news/
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