Floods

[myersbg 1,385]

I have been out today to some of my contracts in Glenridding which as you will probably know took a pasting from storm Desmond, you would not believe the damage it has caused, the couple of shops i look after are next to the beck that burst its banks, one is now just back up and running the other is not going to be able to open until Easter, the force of the beck when it burst took out a set of doors and lifted two 10ft by 4ft chest freezers that were completely full and dumped them 25 ft away and that was inside, these poor people went through this on Saturday night sunday morning, they started the clean up and the same thing happened again on wednesday.

After i had finished at the shops i went to a farm i look after and driving along the lane i saw a massive tree stump that would weigh over a ton sat on top of a 5ft stone wall, driving back home i noticed the walls on a lot of fields had nearly disappeared and stones spread for hundreds of yards around the fields.

I drove through Kendal the other day and hundreds of houses were flooded there, its a sickening site to see peoples belongings all stacked up just waiting to be taken away as landfill.

I know that in a few days time the phone will probably start ringing for rat and mouse calls that have all been displaced and are looking for new homes but what a miserable christmas a lot of people are going to have.

 

Brian

[EDDIE B 3,168]

Yep, most of us have little to be worried about, compared to those poor fuckers! It's a Christmas they'll remember for all the wrong reasons!

[myersbg 1,385]

One thing i forgot to mention was, how well the community's all rally round and help one another and there has been some amazing things that people have done to help, one story i heard today was of a man that just turned up from Wigan and what could he do to help, i think they gave him a shovel and he never stopped all day,at the end of the day one of the local hotels offered to put him up for the night he said he had to get back home because of work, so they offered him a complementary weekend in summer and he tried to refuse that and said i have been here on holiday before and i just wanted to come and help.

Another one i saw was on the news and it was like a aid station at Penrith, there was this fella with a turban on and i said to my misses, look at that scrounging git, didn't take him long to find free food etc, they interviewed him at the end of the program and he had seen the devastation on the news and he had wanted to help so him and his mates had jumped in the car and driven all the way from slough,

made me feel like real A hole, itput a lump in my throat to think that there are still great people out there.

 

Brian

[J Darcy 5,871]

It puts many of our own 'problems' into perspective. Hope everyone there has as good a Christmas as possible....