In Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, an innkeeper and his son were swept away along with their home, which was deposited six miles away in an “ inhospitable marsh ”.... On the same day, Holinshed’s Chronicles detailed how the “ whole towne ” of Mumby, Lincolnshire was lost to rising floodwaters “ except three houses ”.... They don’t tell you about how it felt to be in that extreme weather.“ I think there’s something to be said about combining the two sciences and seeing how that might impact peop