Watching the www before it seems that so much of the North of England is either under water or about to go under water. The effects of all of this are far reaching.
We often have to put families up in our cottages where their home has flooded out through some pipe failure. From experience these incidents take between 10-12 weeks from the flood occurring to being rehoused as kitchens etc have to be dismantled, driers put in to remove the moisture, plaster taken off the walls, electrics stripped out and replaced and floors and doors, architraves, skirting boards etc being replaced. That's when it is one property affected. What has and is happening currently is on a epic scale which I hate to say is going to take a long time for many people to get back to normal as the insurance companies, builders, suppliers of driers etc will be at absolute full stretch.
At this moment I am thankful for many things and for Stewart and his family it is bad enough being flooded out and then you see on the news many people have already
been flooded out 3 times in the last month with the prospect of it happening again. The centre of Rochdale andManchester have experienced flooding, York has 3,500 homes being evacuated tonight and a 200 year old former pub on a bridge near Bury collapsed.
Ten years ago we were at a wedding of a friend of ours who lives on the outskirts of London and she was saying then that in 10-20 years time people would be wanting to move up to Scotland to be on higher ground and be away from the risks of flooding affecting the rest of the country. We all thought she had lost her marbles then.
