Another week of gales and floods in England
With forecasts of at least another week of gales and torrential rain, severe weather warnings and hundreds of flood alerts covering the entire south and south-west coasts of England, and all rail links to the West Country severed for the first time, the flood waters and the political blame game are both deepening.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/09/uk-floods-political-blame-game-severe-weather-warnings
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Firefighters, assisted by soldiers from a nearby barracks, were working round the clock to keep the floods away from an electricity substation at Burghfield, near Reading in Berkshire, which supplies power to 40,000 homes and businesses. The power station is near the river Thames which burst its banks in several places over the weekend, closing many roads in the area.
There could be a brief respite on Monday, but further rain warnings have been issued for Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Met Office's chief scientist, Dame Julia Slingo, said for the first time that climate change almost certainly lies behind this winter's torrential rains and violent storms.
As prime minister David Cameron prepared to chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee, communities secretary Eric Pickles offered an "unreserved" apology and said the government recognised that there should have been more dredging of the Somerset Levels.
Network Rail staff worked through the weekend to restore train links to Devon and Cornwall, after all routes to the West Country were cut through flooding, landslips and trees and other obstructions on the lines
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Cameron's government is going to be washed away in these floods
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