Much of the damage is hidden: undermined foundations, devastated castle gardens, soaked cellars and damaged heating and alarm systems in castles, museums, galleries and archives.
One of the city's great social levellers, a local can be the place to go for craft beers or gastropub dishes, for feeling the sun on your face in an atmospheric beer garden, or soaking up the city's wealth of history.
Populated only by pensioners eating soft food like boiled potatoes and gravy, I went into the equally pokey garden to soak up the Oxfordshire sun.
So with my bottles full, I grabbed my watering can to see how much water I needed to give my garden a decent soak, which I had never measured before.
They had lunch again, then walked out into the gardens, sat on the wicker chairs, soaked in the sun once more.
For example, avoid preserved wood that has been injected with chromated copper arsenate (CCA) or railroad ties soaked in creosote — especially for vegetable gardens.
He and a friend, wearing garden gloves, played catch with tennis balls which they soaked in gasoline, then set aflame.
During Earth's last ice age, iron dust dumped into the ocean fertilized the garden of the sea, feeding a plankton bloom that soaked up carbon dioxide from the air, a new study confirms.
We sat in the garden drinking ouzo and eating the island speciality of stale bread soaked in water.
Rain water soaked the carpet in her auditorium and the gardens were a mess.
The river nurtured not only the wool, which soaked up color from its tannin-rich waters, but a garden filled with beautiful flowers, as well as a budding young artist.
