MOORLAND, England (Reuters) – The village of Moorland in southwest England lies largely deserted, eerily silent save for the creaking of flood defenses which failed to stop the flow of muddy brown water now standing chest-high along its main street.
Its residents were among thousands across England who fell victim to the country's wettest January in nearly 250 years, with heavy rain and storms damaging homes, businesses and transport links and heaping pressure on a government criticised for being too slow to react.
In Moorland, part of the badly hit Somerset Levels region where more than 65 million cubic metres of flood water is being pumped out at a rate of 3 million cubic metres a day, water stretches out in all directions as far as the eye can see.
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