On 10/02/2014 13:16, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Watching the news everyone seems to be saying 'no one knows how bad it
will get'

This is ********.

Look at the website and check the pulse of water coming downstream in
YOUR river system, and the answer is easy.

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk...s/riverlevels/

I have just looked at a few monitoring stations at places I have passed
in the past couple of hours. Only the tops of a few hedges show the
boundary between river and fields and the web site says 'flooding is
possible'.

Colin Bignell