From a correspondent:

(To be sung to the tune of Let it Snow! Let It Snow! Let it Snow!)

Oh, the weather outside is frightful
The flood damage is truly spiteful
The sewage has nowhere to go
Let It Flow! Let It Flow! Let It Flow!

It doesn’t show signs of stopping
And all the manhole covers are popping
South West Water’s spent all of our dough
Let It Flow! Let It Flow! Let It Flow!

Portaloos are required day and night
How I hate going out in the storm
A ‘poonami’ is a regular sight
Infrastructure clearly needs to transform

Warnings forecast continuous raining
So we must fix our outdated draining
Full-length Waders are a definite ‘NO’
Let it Flow! Let It Flow! Let It Flow!

Have we honestly come to this?
Where we drown in our own noxious faeces
Regulators have been so remiss
It’s a wake-up for our human species!

The crux is, of course, who’ll be paying
For pumping stations and extra pipe laying?
The answer . . . . . we already know!
Let It Flow! Let it Flow! Let it Flow!