What a bizarre day for news. The top headline on the BBC today has been that a flood didn’t happen. A non-event. A no-show. Mother Nature clearly has a hangover — bold as brass the night before about what she was going to do, but she has opted to sleep in.
Good news for the people of East Anglia. Bad news for my little experiment into flood coverage here in the east.
But let’s see what they got up to anyway. The Mercury is inviting readers to send in photos and videos, but has nothing great to show yet.
The Times wins the award for most over-the-top comment from a member of the British public with this corker from Jane Crowe, 38: “It’s been a nightmare, They’ve not slept, they’ve hardly eaten. I think next time I would rather drown.
Süddeutsche Zeitung has done well — sticking this nice little media package (made by Reuters, it seems) into its article on the flood.
Back in the UK, the Guardian has gone to town. They have a map, a blog, a digital archive… all sorts. But I’m biased: Cheers for the link, James! Jokes aside, with the floods being such a non-event, the Guardian has done its bit to keep us all informed with out too much doom and gloom.
Predictably enough, the BBC has stacks of comments from the man-on-the-street. I really can’t stand those Have your Say pages. Is it just me, or do all the debates quickly descend into a all round slating of either the Government or, more often, the ‘youth of today’?
