Homes flooded and travel disrupted as river levels peak

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35019021

Flood waters have reached their peak after Storm Desmond, leaving hundreds of homes flooded across northern England and parts of Scotland.

More than 1,000 people were evacuated in Cumbria and the Scottish Borders, as scores of severe flood warnings remain.

Some 55,000 properties are without power after flooding at a substation in Lancaster, while a second substation in Carlisle is also under threat.

The floods minister said the rainfall had been "extreme and unprecedented".

Prime Minister David Cameron said the Army had been mobilised to help those affected, and a meeting of the government's civil emergency committee, Cobra, has taken place.

They have my sympathy and i'm curious who here was affected

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Apparently nobody here cares

[Mistame]

As long as the pubs are safe.

[Underverse]

I mean, it happens everywhere. 1,000 people evacuated because of some extra water isn't really an event that strays from the norm.

[Rixis]

Apparently nobody here cares

I live up here and I don't care /shrug

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I mean, it happens everywhere. 1,000 people evacuated because of some extra water isn't really an event that strays from the norm.

It isn't really that normal

[Rixis]

It isn't really that normal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cumbria/...00/8378388.stm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSEj5VWXIZw

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-22772151

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu_6dbOKqU8

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...3_1527069c.jpg

This is the third devastating flood in a decade, that's not the once in a century event they keep saying it is.