Severe Floods Hit the U.K.

A woman is helped over a flood barrier in the village of Appleby, northern England.
Phil Noble / Reuters

Helping Hand
A woman is helped over a flood barrier in the village of Appleby, northern England. Politician Tony Cunningham said the flooding was "of biblical proportions" and on a scale seen "once every 1,000 years."

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