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Britain's been flooded. Around here, though, we haven't had much more rain than usual - a lot.

My father-in-law came from Bentley, in Yorkshire, where the flooding is worst. My wife's cousin - about 60-ish, lives on slightly higher ground - had to wade through waist deep water to rescue her aunt in her 80s. How people in that position are going to be able to put their lives back together again is quite hard to see.

Apparently, my wife's cousin says, there was a dam which hadn't been maintained as it should by Yorkshire Water (the worst water firm in Britain, by all accounts) and they had to release a lot out of some kind of side channel - through Bentley. That was OK, because Bentley is an old coal mining village and full of socialists. If they'd released the water on the other side of the reservoir, it would have flooded a golf course.

MG

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Apparently, my wife's cousin says, there was a dam which hadn't been maintained as it should by Yorkshire Water (the worst water firm in Britain, by all accounts) and they had to release a lot out of some kind of side channel - through Bentley. That was OK, because Bentley is an old coal mining village and full of socialists. If they'd released the water on the other side of the reservoir, it would have flooded a golf course.

MG

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London seems to be going underwater ! The West has got off fairly light I think..

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Not sure about that. It's not bad here but my wife was saying that parts of Barry (just a few miles west of Cardiff) are waist deep. She's gone to Cardiff to pick the kids up from school. Where's the smiley for great trepidation?

MG

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