That Didn't Go Quite To Plan.

Overnight there has been flooding across the county of Cumbria in the north of England. As this co-incided with the election of the President of the European Union and developments in my antics the Brits decided to make as much as they possibly could from the flooding. This involved concentrating the reporting from the comically named town of Cockermouth* and mounting ridiculously overblown rescue operations in order to make it appear as if it was the worst storm in the history of the world. It wasn't. It was about five feet of fresh water flooding an area with first world emergency services who had almost a week to prepare.

At around 05:00 this narrative came off the rails when a bridge over the river Derwent collapsed causing a police officer to be swept away. This shifted the focus away from Cockermouth and on to Workington as a search for the missing officer ensued. A body has now been recovered but not formally identified.

The most worrying part of the story is that the Meteorological Office are declaring the floods to be result of a once in 100 year weather. The problem is they said exactly the same thing when there was wide spread flooding in 2007.


*It's a town at the mouth of the river Cocker, not a reference to oral sex.