The power of water

[Gil Boyd]

Thoughts are with those thousands of families that have lost their homes over Christmas which shows just how devastating the power of water can be.

Saw lots of heroic acts by emergency services yesterday, including the completely submerged Landrover with only its roof above water and the loan untethered rescuer gaining that super strength to open the flush glass sunroof from outside and lift the elderly gentleman out from inside saving his life as the vehicle was washed away, without a care for his own safety.

I served for 15 years on the Police Underwater Search & Recovery Unit, so know only to well the power of unpredicatable water, but this happening in the UK at the moment is something else......unbelievable and relentless, and I have never seen such devastation. Non stop rain over 2 weeks, washing history down the pan as the rivers rise.
Great to see the PM chairing an emergency meeting over it, but sadly not even 1000 Army lads can hold back the power of water!!
Wish them all, all the luck in the world.

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[muffett.2008]

It really is a world of extremes.
Here in the lower parts of OZ we are losing houses and property to bushfires, up north we have flooding and in the middle....drought.

[Gil Boyd]

Fire has to be the worst, as it has no foregiveness whatsoever, especially when its might cannot be stemmed by water, especially when that in itself is a scarse resource in areas like that in the world. Lets hope 2016 holds better news for all concerned.

[jmoore]

Rivers out of their banks here as well. From my trip home after Christmas:

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Tornados, flooding in several states and lightning storms that shook my cousin's stoutly constructed hillside home.