Flooding in Gloucestershire is continuing to dominate the news in the UK today, with 350,000 people about to lose their mains water supply. A large number are also without electricity, after one substation was swamped overnight. The River Severn is slowly rising to a peak, which will be 1 foot higher than the current level. According to recent reports, water is beginning to seep into Gloucester city centre, which would mean that worse is yet to come.
Mains watersupplies are being replaced by bowser [tanker] and bottled water, with people being urged to flush toilets as little as possible, and when necessary to flush the loo to do so with - floodwater. It will take up to 2 weeks to restore supplies in some areas.
Further east, the River Thames, which rises west of Oxford, is also rising to a peak, and images of flooding are emerging from Oxfordshire and Berkshire. London is also on alert.
Extensive reports and updates on this BBC page.
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This is tereble ,wish they would stop arguing about building on flood plains and consentrate on helping people who do ,No electric no drinking water ,homes full of toxic muck ,its like a horror film ...love Jan xx
ReplyDeleteMy prayers go out to all of them. I just saw the news report on our American TV. So sad, so much rain...they quoted a months worth in a few hours. Take care...and my prayers to all.
ReplyDeleteJoyce
It's not unlike the flooding in New Orleans after Katrina. I can't believe they're still going to build on the floodplains without any assurance of some sort of protection in place, though....
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This is shocking news. When will it end. And when will our new prime minister do something other than ask for more houses being built on greenbelt land and places where houses are going to be flooded because there houses are built in areas of high risk floodings. I am sure he has had time to read the papers in the last few months about the all the houses thats been flood damaged. I pray there is no deaths and people are safe.
ReplyDeletekatie
Wow they are having a rough time of it over there! I hope nobody gets hurt or killed in all of this mess.
ReplyDeletePam
This is terrible, it looks as bad as Katrina. Those poor people, at least when it rains here there is somewhere for the water to go. We do have a few rivers that flood, and it is terrible for the people in those homes. Hopefully it will clear up soon. Joni
ReplyDeleteOh dear, flood can be quite as alarming as drought, with the crisis a good deal more imminent. I thought the flood was going away, but it seems the cresting is still to come. I think I have only worried about flooding once in Arizona in the over 30 years I have lived here! Then we had to worry whethe dams were going to hold with so much unaccustomed rain. A big bridge they had half way built over the Salt River was washed away, causing a great deal of consternation. But the worst was when the new Agua Fria bridge washed away taking one car with it with five passengers and another car with one. My sister and I knew all the passengers in the one car, so it was a very traumatic event for us, short of being the victims ourselves. In our sandrock country in Utah sudden flash floods can take lives, because the water cannot be absorbed hardly at all. Molther Nature can be so scarey when she runs amok. Hope U.K.'s clouds go away soon. Gerry
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