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Floods and weather: How to survive a very English apocalypse
2014-02-16 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The wind sounds like a jet engine as it tears across the floodplain. Yet another Atlantic storm is ravaging the West Country, but in the hamlet of Burrowbridge in Somerset there are dozens of men and women hauling sandbags in atrocious conditions to save the homes of people they don't even know. "We are shocked and amazed and astounded at how well everyone has pulled together, the kindness of strangers and the generosity they have displayed,' says Rebecca Horsington, a 38-year-old farmer's wife...
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The Dutch solution to floods: live with water, don't fight it
2014-02-16 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nol and Wil Hooijmaaijers have been watching the TV news from Britain with some horror. "It's terrible to see, very sad, I am so sorry. And when you see the cows up to their knees in the water," Wils tuts and shakes her head. "We are so lucky." Sitting at their oak dining table, looking out of the windows of their modern farmhouse at the newly planted saplings standing firm in the grey afternoon, the couple know what it is like to lose a home on a flood plain. . Their old house and fields were...
United Kingdom: Floods could remain until March, Environment Agency warns
2014-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Flooding will continue into March in some parts of Britain, the Environment Agency has warned, as the country braces itself for yet another Atlantic storm on Saturday. With two inches of rain expected in the South West, it may be another week before the knock-on effects are felt downstream in major rivers, while overflowing groundwater levels will mean the water may not drain away until the spring. Up to 3,000 homes could flood in the Thames Valley this weekend, with 24 "danger to life' severe...
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Floods in Britain threaten farm output and investment
2014-02-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Floods in southwest England and elsewhere have submerged crops and destroyed cattle bedding and feed, with the consequences likely to be felt for months, or even years, in terms of lower production of both crops and meat. Britain's Environment Agency had issued 416 flood warnings and alerts, as of early Thursday, including 16 under its most serious category, indicating danger to life. Thousands of acres of farmland in Britain are under water, with some submerged for weeks, although agricultural...
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United Kingdom: These floods are washing away the founding logic of David Cameron's government
2014-02-14 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Men in wellies, talk of "grip", Cobra in near-permanent session: the politics of natural disaster has its own vocabulary, both visual and verbal. Repeated regularly is a set of maxims now seared into the soul of every Westminster special adviser: that a party leader cannot go abroad when the country is under water; that Bush's Katrina debacle showed what a delayed or tin-eared response to tragedy can do to a political reputation; that the prime task of all governments is to keep citizens safe, from...
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