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Britain is a great country to live in and I wouldn’t have it any other way. But in some respects we are unprepared for, or maybe ignore, what Mother Nature throws at us.
High winds bring down the leaves in autumn and the railways slither to a halt. In winter the entire country comes to a standstill at the slightest snowfall. In summer any temperature over thirty degrees and the newspapers immediately shout ‘Phew! What a Scorcher!’, and the government bombards us with ways of keeping cool. We are currently enjoying good weather but I wonder how long it will be before the water companies, who are wasting millions of gallons of water every year, tell us that a drought is on its way.
Of course, we are not geared up to handle extremes of weather and there are sound economic reasons for this. We can’t expect the authorities, for example, to stock up on enough snowploughs to clear every single road in the country.
But I do wonder sometimes why it is that speculators are allowed to build houses on known flood plains and not be penalised when those houses are flooded.
Or why the water companies cannot get together and build pipelines to move water from the watery north to the needy south. The Romans managed it and, after all, so do the oil companies!
Funny ‘ain’t it?
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Britain is a great country to live in and I wouldn’t have it any other way. But in some respects we are unprepared for, or maybe ignore, what Mother Nature throws at us.
High winds bring down the leaves in autumn and the railways slither to a halt. In winter the entire country comes to a standstill at the slightest snowfall. In summer any temperature over thirty degrees and the newspapers immediately shout ‘Phew! What a Scorcher!’, and the government bombards us with ways of keeping cool. We are currently enjoying good weather but I wonder how long it will be before the water companies, who are wasting millions of gallons of water every year, tell us that a drought is on its way.
Of course, we are not geared up to handle extremes of weather and there are sound economic reasons for this. We can’t expect the authorities, for example, to stock up on enough snowploughs to clear every single road in the country.
But I do wonder sometimes why it is that speculators are allowed to build houses on known flood plains and not be penalised when those houses are flooded.
Or why the water companies cannot get together and build pipelines to move water from the watery north to the needy south. The Romans managed it and, after all, so do the oil companies!
Funny ‘ain’t it?
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