https://proudstars.blogspot.com/2015/12/it-felt-old-testament-with-hints-of.html
It felt Old Testament, with hints of a Hollywood disaster... even the Archbishop of York's palace is flooded: ROBERT HARDMAN witnesses the community spirit shining from Cumbria to the Humber
Having flown over this sea of misery and then driven through some of it, the Prime Minister did not mince his words yesterday. Arriving at a council sandbag depot in York, David Cameron described what he had observed in this city - and all the other communities now mopping up across the Pennines - as nothing less than 'biblical scenes'. And it certainly felt pretty Old Testament - with elements of a Hollywood disaster movie - in York yesterday. Army trucks rumbled through the streets, their occupants in remarkably good spirits given that some have been reduced to a few hours' kip on wooden floors each night. Assorted helicopters could be heard clattering all day, chief among them a mighty Chinook shuttling emergency equipment to the flood barrier at the mouth of the River Foss. And the Archbishop of York had water filling the cellars and garden of his official residence as the deluge claimed its first palace.
