For those not aware of the recent events, the Thames has again overflowed and flooded some substantially populated areas: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26149946

For those not aware of the recent events, the Thames has again overflowed and flooded some substantially populated areas: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26149946 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26149946 If you walk around there you can see plaques on a few buildings marked like "-- 1917 flood level --". These can be several meters above the normal water level, and clearly so high that great damage will occur whenever that level is reached. But people keep calm and carry on living there, too low for comfort but in oh-so-cute dwellings by the river. They even park there cars down there which makes little sense. I walked there during the last historic flood, which was all of 15 months ago. As an aside, the Thames Barrier is a fantastic sight to see, and reachable on foot from Greenwich in a few hours (take the water taxi home).