Global warming effected at flood crisis in the UK

The insurance companies calculate losses, and weather forecasters predict worsening of a situation

After long rains the largest rivers of England – The Thames and The Severn have overflowed. Under water there was a territories of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire .Without light and waters sit tens thousand people. On preliminary data, the sum of damage can make up to two billions pounds. Water continues to approach.

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In the help to the population the army is involved, but in some areas marauding in spite of prospers. Robbers ruin the thrown houses and steal cars. The total cost of payments of the British insurance companies related with flooding in the Great Britain on June and July can make more than 3 billion £, is spoken in the message of international rating agency Fitch Ratings

For the British insurance sector flooding have the largest influence of all insurance payments by act of nature. In 1990 flooding and storm in the Great Britain have cost insurers £ 2,2 billion. As a result of last flooding in the Great Britain, begun in June of the last year, also because of pouring rains, in significant territory of the country the railway communication has been interrupted, power stations are deduced out of operation, about 350 thousand person have stayed without potable water and at least two person were lost.

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