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RE: Quick heads up
WOOO!!!! This flooding is pretty crazy. Nonstop rain last night! The flood defences are stunningly effective! The road will flood, but there's nothing we can do about that.
Interestingly, one of the major reasons for flooding, aside from the already saturated ground, is that areas up hill are being built upon. That then means that all the water on the hills is running down the roads, into the fields and down hill.
The ground has an amazing capacity to hold LOADS of water, and I really do mean LOADS!!! With the housing, tarmac, concrete, and all the rest, built on the land, it's stopping the absorption of the rain. Instead the water is rushing down hill towards.....us haha (I'm kidding). The water flows into the streams and then just keeps filling them up. Flood defences have been filling up with plants, thus rendering them useless in most places. Put the 2 together, too loads of building and crap flood defences, and you have a potential disaster. All it would take to screw that up would be......oh wait.......it is HAS taken is a very wet few months.
Should have also said, we're fine and enjoying the mini adventure it's causing.
Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism - Thomas Jefferson
Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither - Benjamin Franklin
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