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Old 24-07-2007, 01:03 AM
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Re: Floods

We're not flooded, thank goodness, as our house is on rising ground on the edges of the City of Gloucester, BUT we have no tap water as from about midnight Sunday and are not likely to have any for up to 2 weeks as we're supplied from the Mythe Water Treatment Plant near Tewkesbury (you'll have all seen it on the TV and in the papers). They reckon it'll be Wednesday at least before anyone can get in there and up to 14 days before supplies are restored.

If the water round the big electricity sub-station right by the River Severn on the flood plain, currently surrounded by a fragile-looking, hastily erected defence, and being pumped out by several powerful Fire-service pumps, is breached overnight, as it may well be, then we'll be in real trouble as that could take 5 days to restore...

Our hearts go out to all those whose homes are flooded - we have been so lucky by comparason.
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