Floods

[watervole]

 Climate change is becoming depressingly real.  More wildfires in Australia and the US, floods in the UK.

My sister lives near Sheffield. Her village is on high ground, so her home is safe from the floods, but river levels are over a meter above their normal height, breaking the previous record by a large margin.  Many people are not so fortunate as she is. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50343977

We've had a massive amount of rain in the south of England, but not as bad as they've had it in the north.

We finally got access to our new allotments (long saga which I'll fill you in on later), but the soil, even on the higher ground, is totally waterlogged.

We're getting pinned between summer droughts and endless heavy rain in winter.

On the plus side, there does seem to be some movement on the political front - all political parties are now starting to make climate change promises, though how many will survive beyond the election is an interesting question.  This is our first election in which a majority of voters have said that the climate will be  a factor in who they vote for.

Comments

[notasupervillain]

It was nice to see it play a role in Canada, helping to keep the Tories out! Even if all the major parties had inadequate climate plans.

[vera_j]

Obviously the good old balance of all the natural elements has been destroyed. You have these problems with too much water and we are losing our natural underground sources of water. The ground is mostly parched. I have already spent all the rainwater I managed to "catch" in my big plastic barrels. Today I cultivated my vegetable beds and the soil was like dust, no humidity but also no worms that produce humus...

Talking is the omly thing the politicians are good at...

[thebobby]

Got my commute flooded out, there's some lovely pictures of Rotherham station under water. I barely got home Thursday and was stuck friday - fortunately work is forgiving.