Post by Geranium on Nov 22, 2012 7:14:44 GMT
I could hear the rain beating against the window yesterday morning. Well, when it got light, I looked out of the window and had a nasty shock.
The stream had burst its banks, and the water had engulfed the garden - worse, it was rising fast. I woke my husband and we started to try to stop the water from getting in the house.
It was an impossible task - the water came up so fast that it surrounded the house and poured in under the doors, as well as up through the floors.
All we could do was to start moving everything off the floors, and to carry whatever we could upstairs.
Obviously we'd found our wellies! We needed them.
The hall was soon awash.
The dining room was next - the water came in from the hall and the garden room as well as up through the floor.
It had crept round the whole house by then - the power had gone off too. It came under the kitchen door, so the whole ground floor was under 2" of water.
The kitchen
The garden room.
OH managed to get the generator going, so we could have the heating on, and eventually had breakfast at about 11.
I took a couple of photos from upstairs.
Poor Henry was totally bewildered. He couldn't sit or lie down anywhere, and just wandered around following us.
My husband went up to the lane and took photos of what it was like there.
Lane? what lane?
The water went over his boots - so he had to empty them out when he got back.
The rain eventually stopped, and the water started to go down. We spent the day trying to get the house sorted - with a pump, mops, buckets and a Vac. I washed the floors several times, as they were covered in silt. The fitted carpets are still 'squelchy' though.
A kind neighbour brought a dehumidifier down for us, and we had that going for the rest of the day.
Unfortunately, the forecast is horrific - a brief respite today, but more torrential rain this evening, so we are likely to get a repeat performance tonight. We haven't brought anything downstairs because of that, but at least the kitchen dried out enough for Henry to be able to sleep there last night.
We weren't the only ones to be flooded, of course. Several other homes in our hamlet were flooded too - with water running off the fields, as well as the stream bursting its banks.
I don't expect I'll sleep at all tonight.
The stream had burst its banks, and the water had engulfed the garden - worse, it was rising fast. I woke my husband and we started to try to stop the water from getting in the house.
It was an impossible task - the water came up so fast that it surrounded the house and poured in under the doors, as well as up through the floors.
All we could do was to start moving everything off the floors, and to carry whatever we could upstairs.
Obviously we'd found our wellies! We needed them.
The hall was soon awash.
The dining room was next - the water came in from the hall and the garden room as well as up through the floor.
It had crept round the whole house by then - the power had gone off too. It came under the kitchen door, so the whole ground floor was under 2" of water.
The kitchen
The garden room.
OH managed to get the generator going, so we could have the heating on, and eventually had breakfast at about 11.
I took a couple of photos from upstairs.
Poor Henry was totally bewildered. He couldn't sit or lie down anywhere, and just wandered around following us.
My husband went up to the lane and took photos of what it was like there.
Lane? what lane?
The water went over his boots - so he had to empty them out when he got back.
The rain eventually stopped, and the water started to go down. We spent the day trying to get the house sorted - with a pump, mops, buckets and a Vac. I washed the floors several times, as they were covered in silt. The fitted carpets are still 'squelchy' though.
A kind neighbour brought a dehumidifier down for us, and we had that going for the rest of the day.
Unfortunately, the forecast is horrific - a brief respite today, but more torrential rain this evening, so we are likely to get a repeat performance tonight. We haven't brought anything downstairs because of that, but at least the kitchen dried out enough for Henry to be able to sleep there last night.
We weren't the only ones to be flooded, of course. Several other homes in our hamlet were flooded too - with water running off the fields, as well as the stream bursting its banks.
I don't expect I'll sleep at all tonight.
goodness G that is awful, I feel so sorry for you. The forcast as you say is terrible for today and tonight, I'll be thinking of you and hope you don't get flooded again.
At least the three of you are all right.......
Life in Somerset isn't easy at the moment. 
