It was a rough week for the UK, with record floods and terrorist attacks in the middle of a change of government.
As the Y-Ranter points out, the bureaucracy dealt with it in stride
Y'know, they really did. The airports were opened and working smoothly despite the increase in security level, and I figure he knows how things are going down in the floods up Yorkshire way.
Interesting.
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Well, we all know that us Brits can do weather, even the odd tornado and "hurricane". And decades of experience dealing with the IRA and other Northern Ireland terrorist groups do tend to lend a better perspective than perhaps Americans are used to.