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Weathering the floods
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At long last the army has arrived on the Somerset Levels where floodwaters have been disrupting normal life since just after Christmas.
The army is using amphibious vehicles to deliver sandbags, fuel, food, and water to villages like Mucheleny and Thorney that have been cut off for weeks with access only by small boat.
The army is also transporting local people to check on long-flooded and deserted remote farms, villages and isolated dwellings.
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