After a wet spring and a driving rainstorm last week the Severn and Avon Rivers have burst their banks and the McMahans, along with the rest of the residents of Gloucestershire, are facing historic rising flood waters. As this article is being written we are hurridly stocking water supplies as local reserves dwindle and hope that the power remains on for a few more hours. Local groceries have already been cleaned out as residents prepare for the worst. Jason is off from work until further notice and the family is pondering at what point they will become desperate and hungry enough for a Mr. Chips casserole (just kidding buddy). We hope to have the Delisles off first thing tomorrow so that we may preserve the remaining stocks of drinking water and are preparing to see how we may pitch in and help in the crisis or as an alternative take a multi-day vacation to Dover and Canterbury.
To the left is Tewkesbury Abbey, site of the War of the Roses battle and more importantly the site of several Jim McMahan hikes. The town, about 8 miles from us, is surrounded by water, the unhappy result of being situated between two rivers and a canal. After careful analysis we are certain that the floods were caused either by global warming or Dick Cheney.
We'll keep you updated with news as it breaks.
1 comment:
Tekesbury looks like something out of a story book!
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