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Everyone Panic! Floods!

Posted by John Walker on August 6th, 2008.

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Oh noes! Thank goodness I live at the top of a big hill, eh?

A new genre – flooding games. The jokes just write themselves, as a deluge of flooding games, er, um, flood the market. Or indeed not. But I think what we’ve proved here is that if you read the word “flood” too many times in a row, it starts to confuse and look like it should be pronounced “flude”. (I checked the correct phonetic spelling of “flute” so I could communicate this accurately – that would be “floot”. English is not easy).

FloodSim is, as the title implies, a simulation of flooding, in this case to “help families understand the UK’s risk of flooding, and the policy decisions needed to make sure the UK is protected against floods.” There are floods coming? Argh!

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