I hope our British brothers and sisters stay safe!

And it fizzeled out into a bit of localised flooding. Still better "prepared to survive" as they say.

Picard, read the book "Flood London" The film was based on this but, as always the book is a whole lot better.

It looks like they got about 6 feet and not the 9 they had been predicting, thank God.

Now, if it ever snowed in London for a few days and London got 3-4 inches of snow, then there really would be a National Emergency. The south of England would literally grind to a halt. A business client from London had travelled up from London to Dundee in Scotland in March 2006 for a business meeting. There was a snow blizzard outside and there was a look of panic on his face. It didn't help when I mentioned the film 'The Day after Tomorrow' and told him about an RAF Mountain Rescue Sea King helicopter, which had been forced down over the Cairngorms because of the extreme weather conditions a few days before, just like in the film.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4768116.stm