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Lifeboat crews sent in as country flooded

THE biggest helicopter rescue mission in peacetime Britain swung into action yesterday after summer storms left thousands in peril of rising flood waters.

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PUT THE PRISONERS TO WORK!

23.07.07, 1:08am

Let them earn their keep instead of sitting back and enjoying lives of leisure at our expense!

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THE WAR OF THE DOWNPOUR

22.07.07, 2:37pm

The War Of The Downpour

Not since 1914
Has the month of June seen
This score of rain level before
With water, water seeping
Creeping everywhere
Leaking from overground
And underground
Approaching, encroaching
From all around

Pack emergency bags !
Put out sandbags !
A state of emergency is declared !
Stated on newsflash bulletins with urgency aired !

Some need to be rescued
From homes where water has rose
Now needing to be evacuated
And to safety rowed
Or airlifted by a rope - towed

The emergency services
Are flooded with calls
As the rain pelters and falls
In plummeting great balls
Those now homeless are
Taking shelter in town halls

News crews chase
New stories to case
And Newsflash Bulletins
Bombard us all day long across Blighty
On the weather so strong and mighty

The rivers are bloating
Bits of furniture are found floating
And on the following days the waste
The soaked, sodden, soggy wet carpets
The waterlogged furniture to replace

Insurance bills are kept counting
Of the damage, the devastation mounting
The cost, the loss amid the sadness
The madness and the chaos

Everything is now made visible
In the sparkling sunshine that spears
Down from the clean, clear, cloudless sky

Is global warming to blame for such rain ?
Is that the reason ? It that why
We now have a monsoon season
In the summer months of June
And now July ?

In this battle the weather is winning
Back on earth the mop up is just beginning…



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