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thetardisisnotourdivision · 1 year ago

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Floods are so normalised where I live. My mum will come in from work and say "town centre's flooded" and my only response is "what, again?"

In year six we were told that floods count as a natural disaster and we were just like... "But it floods all the time" and our poor teacher had to break it to us that technically, it counts.

#Took a photo of a local river which was so flooded that six fields around it were so full of water #That you couldn't actually tell where the river ended and the what-had-been-fields began #Sent it to my family like “derwent's burst its banks again”#I mean there were flood defences and we were STILL driving through like three inches deep water #You know you get a flood alert and you're just like “eh I'm sure it's fine”#There's pubs in the local city that are so used to floods that they just put crates on the floor for people to walk on and carry on as usua #There's a caravan in a field near us that's on 3 metre high fucking stilts simply so that it doesn't get flooded because it's that fucking #I mean I know this might not be that unusual but genuinely #Nobody in yorkshire gives a fuck about flooding #yorkshire #uk #flooding #It's fucking raining again #Bet it's gonna flood #Don't worry all the shops in town have sandbags stored behind the till #I mean seriously is this normal or are we just overly casual about this #The floods here are often quite mild #Granted #But they're often quite serious #Idk

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