Pray silence

I expect we will have some kind of 5-minute silence for the people who died in the UK tsunami disaster in Carlisle.

Facetiousness aside, and I'm not volunteering to do the maths, but you have to wonder if there isn't some chaos-theory-butterfly-effect explanation. When an earthquake in the Indian Ocean flaps its wings, causing a seismic wave that circles the world 3 times, according to Japanese scientists, then can it cause gales and floods in the North West of England? The tsunami deposited a lot of water onto the land, which then evaporated and went into weather systems. A month's worth of rain fell in one day up there on Saturday.

They kept playing some audio on 5Live this morning, some geezer who was saying he'd lost his car, his fridge, his cooker... signs of our abundant western/northern wealth...