Storm damage put a lot of things in perspective

As a rapid alphabet of climate change storms continues to wreak rainy havoc upon us, the reality of the new normal has come flooding into our hallways, our sitting rooms, our shop fronts, our businesses, our lives.

It’s not hard to imagine the horridness of being flooded, the visceral awfulness of it. The dismay, the feeling of helplessness, the sheer muddy, stinky, chilly slog of it all.

But as Ireland and the UK are forced to look again at flood defence budgets, listen to what one rural Yorkshire resident has to say about his home being flooded.