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I don't know if no-one knows, or if no-one cares because nobody's died (yet), but hundreds of square kilometres of England are currently under several feet of water. Vast swathes of it, enough to swamp about 10 to 15 copies of New Orleans. Luckily the population isn't anywhere near so dense in these areas. Watching the aerial footage taken from news helicopters makes it look like a completely different landscape. Some of you History-types will be appalled to hear that the water seems to be seeping into 12th century Tewkesbury Abbey - I wonder how much damage that will do, and if it's happened before in the last 800 years. You'd think so, wouldn't you?

I don't have any sort of point to make really, but I do find it fascinating. It's like the natural disaster nobody wants to acknowledge. Floods are a bit boring, compared to hurricanes, tornados, or earthquakes. But for those whose cars are stranded on newly formed islands, or those who haven't been home for several days, or those who have no drinking water, or electricity, it's just as bad.

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I think there's not much mention of it because it's not affecting us. 'Us' being the City of Nottingham, of course.

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I expect to see some of your trademark picturesque pictures of it all later. (Note the redundant redundancy there.)

It's in the news here. An Icelandic weather blogger I read has also explained the meteorology of it somewhat. He said it was a cooperation between cold from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and a low pressure zone from the east that caused this particular downpour. Add to that already waterlogged soil, habitation tight by the waterways and that the waterways are not low enough for this kind of situation, the water in the tributaries can't get to the sea quickly enough and everything escalates. If such a downpour would occur further inland there would apparently be much more trouble.