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‘Does Hull have a future?’ City built on a flood plain faces sea rise reckoning

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With 90% of Hull standing below the high-tide line, its devastating recent floods were a sign of things to come. Can the UK’s 2017 city of culture be retrofitted against disaster – or should its people think about moving on?

Allan Fellowes had a rude awakening the day Hull flooded.

“It was raining very heavily,” he says of the previous night. “I woke up the next morning and I was looking at the ceiling and there were refraction marks on it. I noticed that the couch I’d fallen asleep on was moving a bit unusually. And I actually fell into [the water].

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2DWUsP0

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