Floods

I was in the Blue Boar on Wednesday night, with the local history group that has formed around the Cheesemarket project, and there were a couple of people talking about being flooded out, or the tarmac on the roads being lifted. One lady had to have her kitchen pumped out.
Then someone posted a short film of the stream going through Black Lion Green on Facebook - and the water is orange, and right up to the level of the bridge - so at least six feet higher than it normally is, and flooding across into one of the gardens.
Someone else, over in Brilley, described the devastation of the local shop, which looked like a tidal wave had gone through it, sweeping goods off the shelves and leaving mud behind.
And this morning in the bank, I overheard a lady saying that her son had been called out to see to the boilers at eleven houses in Glasbury which had been flooded. Apparently it had happened because of silt in the drains, making them back up, rather than the amount of water in the river - and it was the Council's responsibility because they hadn't cleaned them out.