Weather panic

I have studiously avoided commenting on the biblical rainfalls of the last few weeks, mainly because I have been lucky enough to miss the worst of it. A lot of the parkland around our area turned into swamp after the first week, and the sunroof on my new car occasionally drips (I am philosophical about this - after all, the car is not brand new, and secondly, the rainfall has been so heavy I am surprised that anything can withstand it). These are mere inconveniences, however, especially as one of my colleagues who lives in Worcestershire is flooded out, and a friend of mine lives in the floodplains of Oxfordshire (I am currently waiting to hear back from him to see if he is OK).

It seems that the weather "crisis" has proven that it doesn't take much to bring the worst out of people. Are there any solutions? Well, whether or not you can predict such rainfall, there is only a limited amount that you can do about it. One contributor to the BBC news forum seems to have an eminently sensible suggestion:

The solution is Weetabix. Have you seen how they suck up the milk? So take lots of weetabix or one big weetabix and it will soon soak all the water up. 24 hours later the weetabix will have dried rock hard and can be used as building material.

[Viper_7], York, United Kingdom