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Because downpours came from the East not the West, Environment Secretary Therese Coffey says Britain was less prepared for Storm Babet deluge

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 24, 2023
Following Storm Babet, Environment Secretary Therese Coffey fumbled merriment today as she appeared to blame the wrong amount of rain for the catastrophic floods. The Cabinet minister said the rain came from the East rather than the West during recent downpours. 'This was rain coming from the other direction, and we don't have as much knowledge about it,' Ms Coffey told the House of Commons' Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Committee this afternoon.' During the carnage caused by Storm Babet, at least seven people are now thought to have died. For October, a total of 13 areas fell short of their daily rainfall records, while flood reports to the Environment Agency hit their highest level since 2015/16. More than 300 flood warnings were issued and hundreds of people were homeless, with around 1,250 houses in England flooded, with hundreds of people left homeless. Ms Coffey, the former prime minister, told MPs that a'rapid investigation' would be carried out to determine Storm Babet's treatment. Due to the direction from which the devastating rain had originated, she said it had been impossible to determine where resources were needed. "We are really good with the Met Office and the Environment Agency's flood forecasting at predicting weather properly because the majority of our rain comes from the west,' Ms Coffey told the committee. We've got it down to a fine art.' Rain comes from the other direction, and we don't have as much information as we did. 'Our ability in predicting where such heavy rain would drop was not to the same extent as if it had been.' So the Environment Agency had moved funds from areas of the country into Yorkshire and the North East,' a narrator.'

Storm Babet: Therese Coffey, the Environment Secretary, faces wrath of flood-ravaged locals who insist the matter will be'swept under the carpet' once more, 16 years after being flooded in 2007

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 23, 2023
In the aftermath of Storm Babet, Environment Secretary Therese Coffey met with the wrath of angry locals in Nottinghamshire today. The Cabinet minister received a tumultuous reception from locals in Retford as they quizzed her about the Government's policy on flood prevention. Lucy Rose's home is now not a house, it's just a shell,' a dramatic exchange caught by Sky News for Ms Coffey. It's no longer a house.' 'I have to fork out and I've got to do all the hard work,' she said. She turned to her neighbors and said, "We have to do all the hard work." We're on you, we want it all on us. You've got to do it, you deal with it.' A neighbor stepped in to remind Retford that it is not the first time it has been flooded after being hit by a deluge in the summer of 2007. They told Ms Coffey, "It's happened again, and now everyone is down again." I'm sorry to say that you'll go away again... it'll be swept under the carpet and then we'll be left.'