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Had a bit of a scare on the 23rd, when we came within the height of half a house brick of getting flooded. Never experienced anything like it. Ridiculously scary. Working out what to move upstairs, whilst filling sandbags and getting pumps going outside. Started at 8pm, finished at 5am on Christmas Eve.
Bought another pump for Christmas!
And then the risk of a re-run when storm Bella appeared. Turned out to be a complete non-event (thank deity of your choice), but we didn’t know that until we’d sat up until 4am, watching the rain and checking every 30 mins that it wasn’t building up again.
We had a lot (~£25ks worth) of drainage work done a couple of years ago, but had never had a problem in this same location. Think that the soakaways had got completely swamped and could no longer cope.
Watching water levels rise and rise, without being able to do anything (more) to stop them is fairly scary.
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Cheers @Robin.
The “what do we save” decision making was interesting. Differentiates the important stuff from all the other stuff that clutters the place up!
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We got flooded in 2007 - two weeks before the big floods round here - lost carpets and furniture but it was covered by insurance - we had ditches dug and things have stayed in control.
The waters were high again a few days back and the ditches were working - I still get twitchy when the streams round us get a bit high......
Glad to hear you are OK!
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That puts guitar making into perspective. Sandbags can be classed as hazardous waste after a flood as they may be contaminated with sewage, so be careful handling them. The modern standard is to use non absorbent bags not old fashioned sacking type material.
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Bloody hell Tony..... Must have been scary moments..... I hope you and your familiy are ok.
Looks like you need a few dykes. Maybe you should call in the Dutch.............. 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤨
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Sandbags can be classed as hazardous waste after a flood as they may be contaminated with sewage, so be careful handling them.
We're not actually on mains sewage here, which I guess in one positive.
It was purely run-off water from the already water-logged ground, with the soakaways around the house unable to deal with the volume, and the ditches (we're in the country) also full to max. There was just nowhere for the water to go - except upwards!
We got the pumps out and piped it out onto the driveway (which is lower than the house), but two pumps only just kept on top of the inflow. We've now got another pump ...
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