England under water Just a fluke or climate change?
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England under water
Just a fluke
or climate change?
England under water
General problems
• Many houses evacuated
• Diseases and contagion
• Lootings
England under water
• Nonrecurring or frequent in the future?
• More investments in flood defenses
England under water
The facts
• 200,000 people without safe drinking water
• 32 counties drown in chaos
• 382.4mm rainfall
• 3 billion pound damage
Useful phrases
• cut off: The floods cut off her village from the outside world.
• homes were evacuated: Some of my friends‘ homes
were evacuated.• lead to: The deluge led to devasting property
damage.• leave without: Thousands of others were left without
power or electricity.• become more common: Scientists think that such
freak weather will become more common.