Climate change is happening, maybe not quite in the way we would expect.  After all we live in the age of blockbuster movies like “The Day After” and we expect things to be seen on an epic scale.

Yesterday the residents of the county of Berkshire, UK got a taste of climate change when about 15cm of rain fell in just a few hours.

Newbry Railway Station (yes those are the rail tracks)

For this part of the world it is not usual to have this much rain in July and after an unusually wet year the ground water levels are already high.  So yesterday when the rain fell it caused some chaos.

Station Road in Thatcham

 Maidenhead town center

Even in our sleepy village which sits on the top of a hill above the Thames there were road closures as water reached 1m in depth in certain places.  Many of the roads and paths started to spring leaks as the subsurface water  looked for a way out. 

Stamford Road, Maidenhead

 So, climate change is upon us, but unfortunately most people seem not to care…