Nairobi, March 8 -- The husband stood on his sodden living room carpet, surveying the devastation around him. "When my wife saw this, she was in floods of tears," he told a reporter, then smiled unhappily at his choice of words.
For it was flood water at unprecedented levels that had forced this couple and hundreds of others to flee their family homes.
Last month was the wettest February in Britain since records began 158 years ago. The country was deluged by an average of 209mm of rainfall, 237 per cent more than normal. Over 3,300 properties were evacuated.
FLOOD BARRIERS
On three successive weekends, storms named Ciara, Dennis and Jorge delivered such a vast volume of rainfall that 15 rivers recorded their highest-ever levels, flood ...