SOMETHING WEIRD IS GOING ON

Rain like a car wash!

Fast-flowing rivers

Water lapping the sluice gates.

The Lud in Louth

Has burst its banks.

The Beck in Nettleham

Is all about.

Car parks and cricket pitches

Now submerged.

Games suspended,

Forecast pending.

Skies are dull

And dykes are full.

Something weird is going on!

All hands to the pumps!

Multi-agencies with emergency plans

Mobilising staff and sand bags,

No time for a quick fag.

Fire services, Environment Agency,

Police and councillors all pulling together

Working flat out round the clock.

It's a weird situation,

The soil is reaching saturation.

Snails on the garden lovage

Are climbing for refuge.

Towering Shuttleworth House

Floating in a moat.

The only way out, is by boat.

Some residents evacuated to Lincoln College:

Sleeping on bunk beds, in the gym.

The Red Cross is on hand

And hot breakfast served

In Blackfriars' refectory.

The earth is very sodden

Something weird is going on!

Is it a natural disaster, an Act of God

Or a manmade crisis; Global Warming?

Well, David Attenborough has given his warning!

Water seeping into Brayford Wharf North,

Through the drains.

It's lapping against Sam Scorer's building

Man wading in his trainers.

They're pumping it back into Brayford Pool

Thank goodness we have the tools!

The Don has overflowed

Something weird is going on!

The Trent is rising,

They've released water into Fossdyke.

"Somebody tell them, they'll flood

the whole of lower Lincoln! "

Lincoln saved but

Retford bought it.

Bransby threatened by the River Till,

Where a pump has expired.

Horses taken to higher ground

Wettest June after the driest April.

In the BBC Lincolnshire Gallery of flood pics

A bungalow, in Langworth,

Under feet of water and sewage,

Red roses round an arch.

Fields flooded

Crops destroyed,

Strawberries turned to mush.

So where's the sun?

Something weird is going on!

It's been raining cats and dogs.

The second day of the

Waddington Air Show

Has been cancelled.

Cars bogged down,

Runways waterlogged.

The outlook is more rain,

More than we can entertain.

The Environment Agency

Is pulling out all the stops.

They think it can be contained,

They think they're on top of it.

But something weird is going on!

Gordon Brown's baptism

By water and terrorist fire.

For a Government of All the Talents

It's All change,

CLIMATE CHANGE!

                           Nic Lance