Alluvion

Alluvion

Pitter patter

Pitter patter

Down comes the rain

Pavements wet

Puddles forming

Sky's dark again

Splish splosh

Splish splosh

The Deluge comes

Harder faster

Coats pulled tight

umbrellas up

Rivulets trickling

Getting bigger

Total Inundation

Streams now

Torrents flowing

Streets are river like

Rivers swollen

Sewers gushing

Water  all around

Freshet rising

Islands forming

No escape the drenching

Banks straining

Defences failing

Water everywhere

Doors leaking

Walls creaking

Carpets soggy

Babies screaming

Adults crying

Sirens wailing

Sandbags pointless

Sluices overrun

The drought forgotten

Cars floating

Boats in roads

Caravans destroyed

Houses soaking

Bridges broken

Families parted

Businesses ruined

Lives in tatters

Floods everywhere

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Freshet - the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow

Alluvion - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land