DESPERATE HOURS

EP. 06. In this instalment, we batten down the hatches, and run for dry land, as we look at the damage a little water can do, or rather, a great deal of it. The European Union’s ‘Floods Directive’ defines a flood as “a covering by water of land not normally covered by water”. But that rather tepid description simply doesn’t do justice to the terror unleashed by raging currents and flash flooding. Natural disasters will be with us for a long time to come. But the death and destruction caused by Brazilian floods and landslides, the flooding after Hurricane Katrina and the Northern Indian Floods,... Číst dále