Rain, rain, go away

If you haven’t heard (and I hadn’t until I was told by my Mum this morning), Gloucester and surrounding areas are flooded. And by “flooded” I don’t mean a centimetre or two of standing water. We’re talking major widespread flooding of vast areas of land, both agricultural and of roads and houses. I watched some of it on BBC News 24 this lunch time. Not good. What’s doubly not good about it is that my fiancee is right there in the middle of it.

So far Ellie has been coping ok with it all, and managed to get more stuff done for the wedding, but it has not been without its difficulties. There is now no running water, following the flooding of the water treatment plant, and according to the report I heard this lunch time they don’t expect water to be back on tap until Wednesday at the earliest. They have to pump all the water out of the plant first, then drain all the contaminated water out of the system, then let the water go through the system again before it can be pumped back out to houses. I suspect it may take some time to clear the main water pipes too, so it could be several days before houses have clear drinking water back.

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