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In the rain on Friday I got a call from a neighbour to say that our new house was at risk from the flooding (we've not moved in yet as it needs a lot of work). So i drove over as quickly as I could in the awful conditions- through huge puddles, well really rivers over the road. I got to the village which had the worst puddle yet, over the height of most car number plates. However lots of cars were making it through so I decided to risk it. It was very scary, but we got almost through when a huge 4 wheel drive came the other way much to fast and swamped us and my poor car died just as it was coming out of the water about 300 yards from our new house.
Waded through the flood to the house to find that the cesspit had been flooded and the water was flowing through the house. I moved all the furniture that I could lift upstairs. Sadly the sofa didn't make it, but luckily as we haven't moved in yet there's not too much furniture there.
Then I went and got 4 very over excited dogs from the car through the flood let them have a swim/run in the garden and locked them in upstairs.
Then back out to the village to deal with my car which was rather in the way, but had by then been joined by three others that had also broken down. A group of us pushed them all out of the way, luckily we were able to push mine into our drive.
The next problem was because we haven't moved in I hadn't got any food or clean dry clothes in the house. Also my husband couldn't get through the flood from work to pick me up so had to go back to our old house. So I was stranded there, very wet, no electricity, no food, no clean dry clothes, and by then 4 rather confused and miserable dogs. I decided that the best place for them was probably in the boot as they all feel safe there and they were very relieved to be put back there and be given their tea.
I went back out to see whether I could help push any more cars, but a neighbour by then had got his tractor out and was pushing them with that- much quicker. However I did bump into other neighbours who invited me back to supper. The water level in the village was beginning to go down by then so I went to see how our house was. I was amazed to see that the water level had sunk from over welly height to about an inch. I was then horrified to see that water was welling up again from a drain in the kitchen floor. Within about half an hour it was back up to a foot and showing no signs of slowing down. Luckily another one of my neighbours had unearthed a pump so he came over with it. It took ages to find the plug that was tripping the electricity, but we got there in the end. We shoved the pump into one of the drains outside that was linked to the one that was causing the problem and the water stopped flowing into the house.
I then spent the night turning the pump on an off according to how high the water was getting, if I left it on too long it ran the risk of burning out, if I left it off for too long it ran the risk of flooding again.
In general rather a nightmare. The car is still stranded because there are so many for the recovery services to pick up and ours isn't in the way it is fairly low on their list. From what a friend who has a garage was saying it sounds like it might be a write off anyway.
Waded through the flood to the house to find that the cesspit had been flooded and the water was flowing through the house. I moved all the furniture that I could lift upstairs. Sadly the sofa didn't make it, but luckily as we haven't moved in yet there's not too much furniture there.
Then I went and got 4 very over excited dogs from the car through the flood let them have a swim/run in the garden and locked them in upstairs.
Then back out to the village to deal with my car which was rather in the way, but had by then been joined by three others that had also broken down. A group of us pushed them all out of the way, luckily we were able to push mine into our drive.
The next problem was because we haven't moved in I hadn't got any food or clean dry clothes in the house. Also my husband couldn't get through the flood from work to pick me up so had to go back to our old house. So I was stranded there, very wet, no electricity, no food, no clean dry clothes, and by then 4 rather confused and miserable dogs. I decided that the best place for them was probably in the boot as they all feel safe there and they were very relieved to be put back there and be given their tea.
I went back out to see whether I could help push any more cars, but a neighbour by then had got his tractor out and was pushing them with that- much quicker. However I did bump into other neighbours who invited me back to supper. The water level in the village was beginning to go down by then so I went to see how our house was. I was amazed to see that the water level had sunk from over welly height to about an inch. I was then horrified to see that water was welling up again from a drain in the kitchen floor. Within about half an hour it was back up to a foot and showing no signs of slowing down. Luckily another one of my neighbours had unearthed a pump so he came over with it. It took ages to find the plug that was tripping the electricity, but we got there in the end. We shoved the pump into one of the drains outside that was linked to the one that was causing the problem and the water stopped flowing into the house.
I then spent the night turning the pump on an off according to how high the water was getting, if I left it on too long it ran the risk of burning out, if I left it off for too long it ran the risk of flooding again.
In general rather a nightmare. The car is still stranded because there are so many for the recovery services to pick up and ours isn't in the way it is fairly low on their list. From what a friend who has a garage was saying it sounds like it might be a write off anyway.
