Apparently there are serious concerns of the water being contaminated with raw sewerage in some of these areas, and with the threat of further rainfall tomorrow plans for evacuations are currently being considered. I am currently on call/standby in case I am needed to attend a steering wheel to get people out en masse.
Looking at the flooded houses, You would have to explain to the people what a BUS was and how to get on one Jack McH
As mentioned in another post we were up to our eyeballs...well not quite, with human sewage when we flooded and didn't even suffer as much as a upset stomach far less dysentery. Obviously we aren't nearly as "delicate"/precious as some of those folk living in the posh parts of the South of England!
Its not right that you were left up to your eyeballs though @silu - thankfully you didn't come to any harm, but you should have been offered some sort of help. I can't speak for any government or local authority, nor is it my decision to decide who should be evacuated and who shouldn't - what I can say for certain is that I am sitting in a nice warm and dry house, whilst there are others who are in homes that are flooded, or without power and the flood waters are continuing to rise with more heavy rain due tomorrow. I understand that comparatively, the flood waters might not be as deep as they are in other places, but to be honest even if there was 6-inches standing in my ground floor, I would be in a bit of a state. There isn't an awful lot I can do to help, as I think the time for filling sand bags has gone now, and we don't have any spare room to put someone up for a few nights or anything like that - and I am afraid that we simply don't have the money to go making loads of hot meals or anything. However, I can drive buses and coaches, and I am more than willing to give my free time to do what I can to help fellow humans who are in distress.
FC, from our experience even if others can show sympathy and support that is a great help. Perhaps once the waters receed and the floods become old news, you might think about visiting a badly affected area armed with a broom and help clear silt which normally accompanies flooding.
