Water

The last few years our English weather has broken a number of records including 'dryest' and 'warmest' and now I believe we are set to break another with the 'wettest' since records began, certainly between May and July (which isn't even over yet). Some days more than two months of average rainfall has dropped in a single day. No chance of a hosepipe ban this summer then? All this talk about global warming, most people think that this purely means the temperature is rising but it does also have adverse effects such as rainfall, storms, tsanamis etc. Whilst all this water is falling from the sky, people all around England are suffering from severe flooding - the area worst affected being in Gloucestershire. Despite the devastation, people battle on as only the English know how, wading through the water in wellies, using dinghys to get about and even bicycles - I can't get my head around how you can cycle through water but it seems to work! Many no longer have fresh running water or electricity - things that we take for granted.

However, with the rising water coming via the sewers, there is a threat of disease. Not a pleasant thought. The insurance companies will certainly be overloaded with claims (said to be approaching 1.5 billion pounds) but that won't be any consolation for all the thousands of people who have lost their homes and irreplaceable possessions. It's hard to imagine what it must be like to live through it; my heart goes out to all those affected and especially to those families in Tewkesbury who lost their loved ones after they tried to pump water from a flooded rugby club.