J L Mead

Storm London J L Mead

London in the summer of 2019 is typically wet after 3 solid days of rain and storms. Charlie has recently moved back to the city after a messy divorce and now resides at the Barbican Estate with housemates Finn and Robyn. Reluctantly giving up a career at the Environment Agency, she takes a job with an online news organisation covering the Square Mile, which is far from exciting. Struggling with the change of pace and missing her environmental work, the slow-flooding streets and the tremors from a European earthquake felt in the city lead her back to her passion for geology. With an impending hurricane, a storm surge, and now earthquake tremors, she begins to realise their convergence would bring destruction to the UK and ultimately its capital London, where the River Thames would flood the city and surrounding low-lying areas. Whilst many have already been evacuated, Charlie, Finn, and Robyn must decide whether to stay in the city and pray for their safety in the tall towers of The Barbican, or fight their way through traffic jams and overflowing rivers to the safety of the Hampstead hills to watch their beloved London flood.