This picture is around on the website and shows Tewksbury (courtesy of Getty Images) on 22nd/ 23rd July. It is an amazing photo that shows the extent of the flooding.The last few posts may be a bit flippant, but there are an awful lot of people round here who are affected. Many people from work got stuck on the M5 overnight, or in the office until the early hours of saturday, or are just generally struggling. The people in the closes behind us had a couple of inches of water flowing through their houses.
The water has run out due to a water processing plant in Tewkesbury being flooded. It will take a couple of days for the flood waters to subside, then a few days to restart the plant and flush new water through the system. It hasn't stayed open, but it is easy to moan. Harder to appreciate the efforts of the people who worked on the plant to keep it open; those who have worked to rescue people and to keep electricity substations open for the rest of us.
The blame game has already started on the media: it must be the fault of someone, probably the government as usual. But sometimes, nature just does it's thing, and you have to just go with it.
