Flooding: too little defence, too late, as the waters rise

Is Britain suffering the consequence of long neglect of flood risks – and will the damage to homes and livelihoods just get worse? Like the lines drawn by parents measuring the height of their growing children, there are chalked marks on the walls of the houses piled in a picturesque jumble along the lower streets of Yalding. They have been drawn by residents scoring the progress of floodwaters through their homes over what has been the wettest month since records began and is heading towards being the wettest winter Britain has seen in 100 years. On Christmas Eve, this Domesday Book Kent village was deluged by riverwater and sewage that swirled close to two metres high in places, swallowing cars, dislodging sheds and climbing the stairs of Kevin Fox s townhouse into his family s first-floor kitchen. We got a lot of stuff upstairs when we knew it was coming, he said. Worse things have happened to people, there s a lot worse off than us. But it wasn t much fun. We didn t have a Chris
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