Across the heel of the United Kingdom the summer lightning, thunder and drenching rain have remove. At the Lords and the Oval and tennis at Wimbledon, the cricket deluge. On a half-hour delayed start ,women’s quarter-finalists Marion Bartoli and wildcard Sabine Lisicki played on. The clip of the ball on their rackets has drowned. The hundreds of Environment Agency and other emergency staff was on standby, this is because of the flashing-flooding from the downpour. In the other place the whole of Kent and most of the London have been affected by a course of the storms. Norman Baker the railways minister, asked Network Rail ” explain why passengers were stranded on Monday in “very uncomfortable conditions” after overhead power lines on trains between East Anglia and London overheated during repairs.” Norman baker said “We need the railway to be resilient, especially with the possibility of climate change causing more extremes of temperature in the future. I am asking Network Rail to explain to me what happened yesterday and what steps they are taking to try to prevent a recurrence.” Then the spokesman for Network Rail said “There has been an assumption that everything that has gone wrong was due to the heat, but we had other problems. It isn’t right to say that the infrastructure can’t cope with the heat.” . Then the general secretary of t5he RMT transport union, Bob Crow stated “Once again this issue of investment in the failing infrastructure of the UK transport system is thrown into the spotlight. If the money ripped off by the train operators had been invested where it matters we wouldn’t be reduced to this sort of chaos as soon as the weather warms up.”. It was expected by the rest of the country to have a quieter but fresher end to the balmy three days brought by the Spanish plum effect of warm air funneling from the Sahara. Every country need to have an alert every time especially when there is an upcoming disaster. So that people should be prepare for it.
Reference:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/28/flood-alert-britain-storms
