Dangerous Weather around Britain

Villages without electricity, enormous waves pounding coastlines and flood waters continue to rise in the River Thames, these are the main and really dangerous problems that the wet and really windy weather brought to many different parts of Britain.

The past days a really unexpected and strange phenomenon happened in Britain. The extremely power of wind with the “help” of the wet weather made River Thames reach record water levels, because of that there were many severe flood warnings in two parts of England, Berkshire and Surrey. This was a huge problem as the local police informed British people because around two thousand five hundred houses were at huge risk. One tragic example of this phenomenon was that one seven years old boy lost his life.

This was one of the many problems that took place, as many villages were out of electricity, rail links severed and huge waves pounding coastlines and were extremely dangerous for the people near the coastlines and the cars passing next to the beaches, because the waves would easily take them into the sea and this would be terrible.

Here are some important things said by people about the weather conditions in Britain: “Danger to life” and “The Thames is rising now to levels not seen for many, many years”. These quotes can show us how important and unsafe was this difficult weather situation in Britain.

Here are some examples that show you how tough it was for people during these days: Wettest January in 248 years, hundreds of people have already been forced out of their homes, storm waves have been beating rocks and spraying mist onto coastlines in seaside town, where many shops have been closed. As I said, the weather has caused some areas to be cut off from power as well as rail links and also military personnel have been sent out to some areas to deploy sandbags and improve flood defenses.

Let’s hope things will get better and no other people get hurt by this crazy phenomenon!

By Themistoklis Daniilidis