Like others I have been watching what has been happening not that far away from where I live with great sadness. I just can't believe the pain of losing everything like many have in these conditions, some of them at least twice in repeat floods.
Thankfully the predicted high levels were not attained and the sub station wasn't breached. Let's hope that the rain starts to ease and allow the levels to drop away.
Good luck to all the poor souls that have to start to rebuild their lives when the levels return to normal and good luck to some of those living in Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire as they seem to be the next on the hit list of major flooding.
The lasting legacy is how on earth do you deal with living in these suspect areas now that we know that it is possibly the start of what could become the norm in the future with the possible effects of global warming.
John
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Originally Posted by solus  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. |