"It's a scary thing when Mother Nature unleashes her worst" - said Animaterra up there. There's optimism for you...I think we "ain't seen nothin yet".

Not that it's all Mother Nature on her own - the way we've been acting lately has a bit to do with it. Let's just hope that the message about stopping burning fossil fuel gets across this time. Though, even if everyone in the British Isles stopped burning any fossil fuel, and all the cars ground to a halt, it'd only make a fractional difference. The only single country where it would make a significant difference if that happened would be the United States, and it'll have to get a whole lot worse before that happens. Which it will of course, but formthe rest of the world first I suppose.

In fact in England most people really rather enjoy a bit of a disaster. Out comes the legend/memory of the Dunkirk spirit to be dusted off and passed around. A couple of weeks ago in another flood in the same series, the TV camera were wandering round, and this women was showing them over her wrecked house - listing and showing the damage - then she opened a cupboard and found all her pasta jars were filled with water, and she dissolved in...giggles. As the saying goes, "If you didn't laugh you'd cry"