What sort of a world do we live in when news on GMTV of a dam about to burst and people being evacuated was interupted with an urgent bulletin that Paris Hilton was being released!

Abi has been sent home, to be honest her school was one of two schools open but there were not enough teachers to keep the school open.

I'm gonna lay on the sofa and watch the news!

Well I arrived at the hospital at 7am as asked, I was second on the list and was "dressed" for theatre by 8.30am. At 9am the consultant came to ensure all the paperwork was complete (the op is a trial) and advised me it would be 2pm when I would be in theatre. So I picked up my book and read, and waited and waited. News of the devastation hitting Sheffield came through, staff worrying about getting home. At 3.30 the consultant arrived to advise me that the specialist equipment needed for my operation was sat on the M1, he wouldn't cancel as yet but it may not arrive, I called Lee and he set off to pick me up. At 5pm my op was cancelled and at 6pm I joined other patients and staff to watch the news.
At 8pm I got a text from Lee to say all 7 different routes he could take to get to me were under water and he was going to have to turn back.
My cousin lives 1/2 mile from the hospital and she kindly picked me up and offered me a bed for the night, not that we got much sleep, watching Sky News as they showed our town and city under water.
Sadly two people have died and hundreds more have lost homes a cars. Ulley res which is close to our home (though luckily too far to hit us) is on the verge of bursting and Rotherham is preparing.
Lee, who had done a night shift, was sat outside my cousins waiting for us to get up and we have made the slow process home.
Yes my op has (yet again) been cancelled but in the grand scheme of things it's nothing. My home and my family are safe, and that's what matters!