On Dec 24, 8:52*am, "Eskimo Will" wrote:
1 metre, pah! :-)
Over 2 metres so far this year in Haytor, wettest year since I came here

Jan 146
Feb 33
Mar 33
Apr 216
May 89
Jun 272
Jul 121
Aug 284
Sep 101
Oct 237
Nov 282
Dec (so far) 235
Total 2012 (so far) 2049 mm

No wonder Devon is flooding and getting worse.
No wonder my vegetable growing was a complete disaster this year :-(
There will have been much more higher up of course.

The amount of water in the atmosphere is 12,900 cubic kilometers, if
it were to completely rain out, atmospheric moisture would cover the
Earth’s surface to a depth of only 2.5 centimeters.

495,000 cubic kilometers of rain falls every year. It is as if the
entire amount of water in the air were removed and replenished nearly
40 times a year.

You should consider yourself lucky.
At least it all flows downhill from you.

According to NASA:
The sea level around the globe has risen approximately 17 centimeters
over the course of the twentieth century. [Doesn't this mean we have
drained the world's aquifers by by the equivalent of 6 or 7 inches
over three quarters of the world's surface?

Or is it as "scientists" would have it, that:
Sea level has been rising over the past century, partly due to thermal
expansion of the ocean as it warms and partly due to the melting of
glaciers and ice caps.

The Ocean level can't possibly increase in mass and warmth. Can it?

More "science":

One expected effect of climate change will be an increase in
precipitation intensity: a larger proportion of rain will fall in a
shorter amount of time than it has historically.

On the other hand as temperatures in the tropics reach entropy, the
ability to form tropical storms will either increase or decrease to
completion. Except that it can not be the former as long as rainbows
can form and god makes little green apples.

I have an impression that as long as things change, they will stay the
same.
Or not, as the case may be.
If you are in a hole it may ideally suited to storing water.
Start digging.