What's more current than the weather?

[Carruthers]

It's not just the volume of water on the move that would worry me; it's what might be in it.

The surface drainage and sewerage system is overloaded to the point where manhole covers are forced off and the contents enter into the mix.

The opening shots of the video above shows that the flooding abuts a sewerage treatment plant.

It's possible that there are measures that can be taken to prevent contamination of the flood water but I wouldn't put money on it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The flood water and all the shit it carries with it, is not just a figure of speech. Virtually all floods are contaminated with fecal matter from multiple species. But there's two types of floods, first, the rising water that submerges everything then recedes to expose a soggy contaminated world. The other is the rampaging flood which destroys everything in its path with unimaginable force and violence leaving in its wake contaminated rubble. The thing they have in common is shitty water.

Shit isn't the danger, it dries out and can be cleaned up. The danger is shit is food, wonderful nutritious food for things we don't want to feed. Nasty, deadly things we compete with every day for domination.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

It's not just the volume of water on the move that would worry me; it's what might be in it.

In Australia, it is crocodiles and exotic poisonous snakes. What are a few (trillion) tiny bacteria compared to that?

How wide (kilometers) are resulting flood plains?

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by tw

In Australia, it is crocodiles and exotic poisonous snakes. What are a few (trillion) tiny bacteria compared to that?

I'm sure that as the good people of Shropshire and Worcestershire trudge through a toxic soup of sewage, farm animal slurry, agricultural chemicals, oil and petrol, at the forefront of their minds will be the marked absence of crocodiles swimming down the High Street and black mambas in the basement.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

... at the forefront of their minds will be the marked absence of crocodiles swimming down the High Street and black mambas in the basement.

Always looking for the good side in life, are you?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

I'm sure that as the good people of Shropshire and Worcestershire trudge through a toxic soup of sewage, farm animal slurry, agricultural chemicals, oil and petrol, at the forefront of their minds will be the marked absence of crocodiles swimming down the High Street and black mambas in the basement.

Nonsense, Mambas don't move to the basement for nobody, they'll take the master bedroom thank you very much, you go argue with the Gators over the basement.