I don’t think anyone can describe the aftermath of a flood. It just knocked us for six and we were out of our house for a year”
The water went right through the school and caused over £45,000 of damage which we can replace through some recompense by the insurance companies. We cannot recompense children who might loose their lives due to the amount of water that came through the school”
I’ve had trouble with water and sewerage coming up in my yard since 1986. When the pump packs up for some reason, the water and sewerage comes up in my yard and I have been waist deep on some occasions in sewerage water amongst other stuff”
Perhaps twice a year the river bursts its banks, water comes up peoples toilets, sewerage paper is found in the roads in the morning”
What we’ve done to self help ourselves is we’ve put drainage pipes though out garden. We funded that ourselves”
I was worried about flooding in the area but felt that if planning permission had been gained by the builder then everything was OK. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case”
Water goes into a smaller drain. Once that is blocked it goes everywhere. We have spoken to various people about it but instead of getting better, it actually gets worse”
I watched the water coming up towards my house so at 4 o’clock I phoned National Flood Line. I was told to phone my nearest builder’s merchant and so get some sandbags. This was 4 o’clock on a Sunday afternoon so that’s about as much use as a chocolate teapot”
In years gone by we didn’t have so much problem with flooding because there was the old fashioned road men who used to keep their own lengths clear and used to take great pride in cleaning out the culverts and the ditches”
