It's a good graphic for the dire consequences of global warming but it has to be a Photoshop graphic not a photograph.

Here is the original source.

https://twitter.com/elliotwagland

Notice he is the photo editor. Nope, you do not manipulate photos that way with photoshop

Here are some other photos from northern England.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/12073903/UK-floods-Storm-Frank-Sir-Philip-Dilley-live.html

The flooding in England is actually worst and historic than the one in Missouri, where it is also bad and historic.

The photo, the pub and the weather are unbelievable.

It should shock more than a few people in to the reality of climate change.

That's an old pic and not from #York

https://twitter.com/elliotwagland/status/682139061880946688

except that the image you linked is not the same image

https://twitter.com/deric_hartigan/status/682133706040045569

Here original image



And swan picture

A Swan was looking curiously down into the house through the window with 5" of water over the sill, and the window was not leaking. I've also seen exterior shots with floodwater up against old stone and brick buildings, and there was no evidence that the windows were giving way.

Towns and villages around the rivers and marshes in Great Britain has dealt with flooding like this for centuries. That's why you see a lot of old stone and mortar houses with thick walls (8 - 12 " thick)near rivers, and the main floors of old wooden or brick houses are built up at least five or six feet above ground.

If it's an old stone house with foundations and high stone walls around the entrances, so long as there are good window frame seals, and one cofferdams the gates in the walls with sandbags to keep the water out of the entry yards, flood-water up to four/five feet can be kept out of the house.

Just have to ensure the water pressure against the windows isn't too much. If those are modern double-paned windows, they can probably block up to 1/3 the window height worth of flood-water before they start to give.

Haele

It is entirely possible this is real, most of us have seen that sort of water-tight construction at zoos and aquariums, but it's not the sort of thing one sees in ordinary shops here in the U.S.A., even in flood prone areas.