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Many UK readers will have heard about the Boscastle floods on Monday evening, but now I am to reveal more flooding that hasn't been mentioned on the national news.
My house!
I arrived home on Monday evening at around 6pm and before nipping out to get some shopping, I went up to my office to get my PC doing some video processing. So there I am, sat at the desk and I'm looking out of the window - and the rain is so torrential, that I cannot see the houses 50yds from me. I pull all the windows closed and sit there watching it from my office window.
At that point, I hear the sound of running water - like guttering, but it was coming from each side of my head. So I put my ear to the left wall (adjoining wall to neighbours) and could hear water racing down the wall. But I could still hear water running in my right ear! So I put my ear to the right wall (internal partition wall) and could hear water there too...
So I went downstairs to the middle floor and found that the rear bedoom on the middle floor was flooded. A 4ft round puddle in the middle of the room, with water streaming (not dripping but like a tap on full) from the light fitting!
I immediately grabbed pots and pans from the kitchen, along with some towels and started to try and catch the floodwaters before they got any further. The rain died off after a few minutes, but the water continued flooding in for about 3 hours...
The landlord was called and he got into the attic and discovered that the attic was waterlogged, as was all the fibreglass insulation. Yesterday, the builders turned up (several times) and they are coming back at the end of the month to strip the roof and redo it. They aren't sure how it happened - but happen it did - and they suspect it was a combination of the wind at a particular angle and the amount of water. The landlords view was no matter what angle the wind ro amount of rain, his roof should not leak. Which is a pretty good point, it has to be said.
Rain is scheduled for later this afternoon, but hopefully won't be as heavy...
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