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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmerica and Britain have always enjoyed a special relationship, but this takes the biscuit..
Incredible satellite imagery from NASA's Worldview shows the monster storms swirling 'arm-in-arm' across the ocean. The storms in the US have left 21 people dead and caused thousands of flights to be cancelled, bringing the east coast to a standstill.
Meanwhile, in Britain, heavy rain and winds up to 80 mph devastated parts of the south, aggravating areas already flooded after the wettest January since records began in 1776.
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America and Britain have always enjoyed a special relationship, but this takes the biscuit.. (Original Post)
HipChick
Feb 2014
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Somebody get out there
with a fan and move this thing.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)2. These monster storms are something else.
I'm going to be nervous this hurricane season, for sure.
malaise
(268,952 posts)3. Amazing
At least Africa is not in their clutches at this moment
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)4. K&R! It wasn't too many millions of years ago they were even closer.
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)5. Looking at that second picture, no wonder a lot of the buildings are made of stone. Wonder how many
times this has happened in the thousands of years the UK has been inhabited and what was washed away in the years past. They seem well prepared for water and tides.