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Date Posted: Fri, 01/ 3/03 12:12pm
Author: Bella
Subject: Re: England is underwater ?? :o(((
In reply to: sunny 's message, "England is underwater ?? :o(((" on Thu, 01/ 2/03 5:50pm

>Hey Bella,
>sounds really nasty, I don't mind the crisp, dry cold
>so much but DAMP COLD is truly the pits :o((
>
>You don't suppose there's anything to this global
>warming stuff, do ya ? is the sea level rising any
>noticeable degree 'round there yet ? I hear they've
>had to move whole villages in Alaska further inland --
>kinda hard to do on an island tho'.
>
>wishing you some sunny days to dry out a bit,
>sunny :o)

Thanks for wishing those sunny days, they may be some time arriving though!

I agree, I like crisp snow and can cope better with than kind of cold weather than the nasty, damp cold which is really horrible. I think southern England at least is gradually disappearing under water with increased flooding every year, some parts of shoreline are being given up to the sea in many areas. There are currently 399 flood warnings in the southern and mid England areas, which is quite a lot for such a small place. One elderly couple had to be rescued yesterday from the upstairs of their home in an inland area of Sussex when it was flooded to 6 foot (lucky they had an upstairs!), and in several areas it is now flooding to five foot. A lot of livestock and wildlife obviously is lost. There was though an amusing picture of a large number of swans swimming up a flooded main road in one city in the South West, at least someone appreciates the weather:)

What tends to happen now is it has no sooner drained away and people have to move out for several months while the house dries out and move back, redecorate and its flooded again. Some people asked the Environmental Agency why the water doesn't seem to be draining at all, and were told it is the wrong sort of rain (which probably means the drains are blocked up with leaves and no none bothered to unblock them). About 40 miles of East Anglia has been expected to disappear under sea water in the next 50 years or so, it now looks as though the opposite coast might be joining it under water sooner than that, leaving not much above land in the middle. As you say, on an island, it does make things difficult:). The sea is rising a lot, and several houses which used to be a few feet back from the coastline have over the past few years, fallen into the sea as the coast becomes more eroded.

An area about 15 miles from me is badly flooded, this area at the moment is relatively safe and snow not rain is predicted for the weekend, although it is raining at the moment. Global warming seems to be having a serious effect, and the weather everywhere seems to have gone beserk. At least we're lucky not to have had the typhoon weather like the Solomon Islands. It's depressing though, there tends to be a lot of rain here between January and April/May so it clearly is not a good start to the new year that so many places are already so badly flooded.

Anyway that's more than enough from me about the weather - it really is disconcerting though. Most people are quite resilient but when it keeps happening it gets demoralising.

I really think the amount of development, road building and covering in concrete, has had a disastrous effect (a lot of housing has been build on flood plains in the last twenty years or so), as there is just less land for water to drain on to.

Bella

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