"Alan White" wrote in message
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A full page advert in todays Guardian, placed by the Environment
Agency, exhorts readers to 'Act Now. Be prepared for flooding'.

Do they know something...

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the Environoment agency, (the bit of it that used to be the NRA) work on
long timescales as is appropriate for someone worried about this sort of
thing. The decision to run a public information campaign might have been
decided over a year ago. On the other hand someone might be worried about
how hard the ground is and what might happen if the drought broke with a few
heavy downpours.

Jim Webster