Floods and more floods
Much of Yorks and Lancs and Greater Manchester is still under water. The BBC has photos.
Central streets in York hip-deep in water, feet above the door sills of shops.
A heartbreakingly huge pile of full bin-bags outside a bookshop in Hebden Bridge.
A wholly submerged bridge in Cawood.
Two guys in water above their waists.
The north is a hilly area, but the towns and villages are mostly in the valleys. The valleys are river valleys.
To make it all worse, Cameron is there. Heckuva job, Davey.
And flooding in the basement of the museum in York has submerged much of the Yorvik Viking exhibit (though apparently they were able to rescue all the historic artefacts) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/york-floods-pictures-show-jorvik-viking-centre-underwater-a6789681.html
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