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United Kingdom: We're used to floods in Somerset but this time the people feel angry and abandoned
2014-02-09 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Somerset floods are, in a small way, the English equivalent of New Orleans's Hurricane Katrina: the residents of a wealthy, first-world country find themselves helpless in the face of Mother Nature, and a political class is astonishingly slow to recognise and react to the crisis. Unless you live in Somerset, it's hard to understand the scale of the disaster. I farm a few miles away, in the Mendip Hills, and when I leave my house it looks as if the sea has reclaimed the whole of the Somerset...
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