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Nick Hornby's excerpt describes how heavy rains have flooded the narrator's home, reflecting on how climate change has made the weather more extreme. The narrator notes that past heavy rains were seen as anomalies, but now the planet has "changed its nature" due to human abuse. As water starts pouring into the kitchen, the husband David goes outside in rain gear to see if he can do anything, but their home offers little protection from the storm outside.

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Nick Hornby Verbs

Nick Hornby's excerpt describes how heavy rains have flooded the narrator's home, reflecting on how climate change has made the weather more extreme. The narrator notes that past heavy rains were seen as anomalies, but now the planet has "changed its nature" due to human abuse. As water starts pouring into the kitchen, the husband David goes outside in rain gear to see if he can do anything, but their home offers little protection from the storm outside.

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Nick Hornby: How to be Good

Excerpt
The last time it rained like this was in 1947, according to the news, but back then it
was just a fluke, a freak of nature this time around they say, we are drowning
because we have abused our planet, kicked and starved it until it has changed its
nature and turned nasty. It feels like the end of the world. And our homes, homes
which cost some of us a quarter of a million pounds or more, do not offer the kind of
sanctuary that enables us to ignore what is going on out there: they are all too old,
and at night the lights flicker and the windows rattle. Im sure that Im not the only
one who wonders where Monkey and his friends are tonight.
Just as we were eating, water started to pour into the kitchen under the French
windows; the drain outside, placed incompetently in the dip between the garden
and the house, cannot cope. David digs out an old pair of wellingtons and a cycling
cape and goes outside to see if anything can be done.

Hornby, Nick. How to be Good. London: Penguin Group, 2001.

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