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I'm tired of playing this waiting game...
12 years ago
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So I live in the village of Moorland....
Anyone in the UK might have seen the news (foreigners I don't expect you to have seen). Our village has become subject to severe flooding meaning this is our village now:
https://twitter.com/dredgetherivers.....472768/photo/1
We are one of about three or four houses that are still dry. Our field has been dug up (and ruined) in an attempt to try and save our house. They have built a 12ft high 'bund' (dirt bank) with a 7ft ditch either side of it which runs from one side of our field to the other which joins up with the bunds in the neighbouring fields.
Which you can see here:
http://twitpic.com/dvnm32
http://twitpic.com/dvnlto (though these were taken a few days ago and the water is significantly higher now)
We've got a pump in one of our small fenced off paddocks which is to pump water away from our property and over the bank into the rest of the field which is now about a foot deep in water so no chance of making hay for our horse this year...
Our swimming pool is ruined from the sewage in the water table seeping into it, fixable, but at a cost of £5k. Our area has only got septic tanks and thus they are all overflowing... so it's not just water we are having to contend with, its sewage as well.
Whilst our house is dry, we are currently a cafe and car park for all the villagers who are trying desparately to go and rescue their posessions from their flooded houses. It's heartbreaking to see them coming back in floods of tears at how much they have lost. We've taken in peoples pets (including chickens, duck and sheep) and we are soon to have the police and FLAG move a portacabin into our land in order to work from it as the water is rising rapidly up the road and cutting off more and more of the village.
Getting into and out of our property is a nightmare, the road (which is only really a single lane dirt track) has multiple pumps running across it which they have put ramps of gravel either side... it's a nightmare even in a 4x4 to get through..
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that this bund that has been built will hold when they start to open the water gates higher up... we've been warned to expect a tsunami type wave of water which may break the bank and be anything up to 6ft high... I mean honestly.. how the hell do you prepare for that when you have animals etc?!
It's just a waiting game for things to either work out... or go very very wrongly :(
I hope everyone in the uk remains safe and my thoughts really are with you all who are affected whether its direct flooding or indirect threat of flooding... I fully sympathise with how you feel <3
Anyone in the UK might have seen the news (foreigners I don't expect you to have seen). Our village has become subject to severe flooding meaning this is our village now:
https://twitter.com/dredgetherivers.....472768/photo/1
We are one of about three or four houses that are still dry. Our field has been dug up (and ruined) in an attempt to try and save our house. They have built a 12ft high 'bund' (dirt bank) with a 7ft ditch either side of it which runs from one side of our field to the other which joins up with the bunds in the neighbouring fields.
Which you can see here:
http://twitpic.com/dvnm32
http://twitpic.com/dvnlto (though these were taken a few days ago and the water is significantly higher now)
We've got a pump in one of our small fenced off paddocks which is to pump water away from our property and over the bank into the rest of the field which is now about a foot deep in water so no chance of making hay for our horse this year...
Our swimming pool is ruined from the sewage in the water table seeping into it, fixable, but at a cost of £5k. Our area has only got septic tanks and thus they are all overflowing... so it's not just water we are having to contend with, its sewage as well.
Whilst our house is dry, we are currently a cafe and car park for all the villagers who are trying desparately to go and rescue their posessions from their flooded houses. It's heartbreaking to see them coming back in floods of tears at how much they have lost. We've taken in peoples pets (including chickens, duck and sheep) and we are soon to have the police and FLAG move a portacabin into our land in order to work from it as the water is rising rapidly up the road and cutting off more and more of the village.
Getting into and out of our property is a nightmare, the road (which is only really a single lane dirt track) has multiple pumps running across it which they have put ramps of gravel either side... it's a nightmare even in a 4x4 to get through..
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that this bund that has been built will hold when they start to open the water gates higher up... we've been warned to expect a tsunami type wave of water which may break the bank and be anything up to 6ft high... I mean honestly.. how the hell do you prepare for that when you have animals etc?!
It's just a waiting game for things to either work out... or go very very wrongly :(
I hope everyone in the uk remains safe and my thoughts really are with you all who are affected whether its direct flooding or indirect threat of flooding... I fully sympathise with how you feel <3
-Auro