https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50333233‘Biblical’ rainfall leaves streets flooded
Heavy rain, yes. Unusually heavy, yes. When I was young we used to call it ‘wet weather’. I remember being stuck on a bus south side of Glasgow for an hour or two, on the way home from school, early 70s, waiting for floods to subside.
Evidence of Genesis’s 40 days and 40 nights of floods. Err no, that’s a leap in reasoning.
Yes I know, there’s actually no particular definition of ‘biblical rain’. Trashy tabloid papers have used such headlines for many years. But how sad, imho, that the BBC have reduced themselves to that level.
PS: They’re having second thoughts. The bbc news homepage headline still says ‘Biblical’, but the page I linked just says ‘Torrential’. Might as well be the old classic, “London bus spotted on the moon”.