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The recent Storms Ciara and Denis dumped a huge volume of rain on the UK and it hasn't really stopped raining since.
There has been severe flooding along the River Severn in Shropshire and Worcestershire.
I heard a news reporter yesterday say that 500 tonnes of water a second were passing through Ironbridge.
To cap it all, we now have Storm Jorge about to pay us a visit with 70mph gales and another 80mm of rain.
It's been chucking it down all day here and the back lawn is like a marsh.
That, of course, pales into insignificance when you look at the damage that has been done in other parts of the country.
Incidentally, as the Spanish Met Service named the storm Jorge, we have to pronounce it 'Hor-hay'.
If you ask me, the whole thing is getting beyond a hoke.
I always find January and February hard going and it doesn't help that I have a birthday at that time of year.
Birthdays are a bit like the Reader's Digest.
No matter how many times you cancel, they still keep sending them.
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