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Floods fear after heavy rain
Friday 7th December 2007, 11:42AM GMT.
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Having been born and raised in Shropshire close to the Severn, flooding is a way of life sadly. So much so, that I have developed web feet.I wonder if any other readers have evolved such oddities. Maybe long necks or gills.
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i was born in shrewsbury and can remember the bad floods in the town in 1947 following the terrible winter. i recall standing on kingsland bridge looking down on a tiny cottage alongside the river and severely flooded with an old lady shaking her fist at would be rescuers
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i’ve developed gills and a fin
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