"Sacha" wrote

Hope all those urglers in or near the area of the flooding are okay and NOT
flooded!


We keep hearing how sandbags are being delivered, well we got a delivery of
sand to a local church by "The Sun" newspaper, saving the day as they will
say, and it was a free-for-all getting some to make your own bags with
no-one in charge. Useful only if you had anything to put it in, most seem to
be using their wheelie bins to collect it but what do they put it in when
they get it home. Carrier bags have holes.
A friend from across the road evacuated her disabled Dad down to Yeovil,
Somerset last night (another daughter) and is about to be on her way back
with lots of waders and sheet plastic.
It hasn't reached any further up our road since yesterday although it's now
coming up out of the ground in some back gardens opposite. Our biggest fear
is that it floods over the A30 at Egham from Runnymede meadow (now lake), if
that happens the whole of Egham will be gone with no way of road escape from
this whole area except through Staines which has water fountaining out of
the drains along the London Road, one of only two roads out of the town
still open.
I can actually smell the sewage in the water now when I walk down the road
every couple of hours to see how far it's got!
If anyone mentions drought later this year they will rightly be lynched!
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK