[sophocles]

This whole episode leaves lots of unanswered questions. Apart from what the son did or didn't do, what kind of emergency service would give up entry efforts,(apparently), and just depart leaving an elderly disabled person alone in a flooded house ? Absolutely baffling, but I suppose we don't know all the details yet.

This post has been edited by sophocles: 26 October 2023 - 11:15 AM

[firedodger]

If somebody doesn’t want to leave their house, the fire service can’t force them to leave their house.

[Fit as a Nelson]

Search & Destroy, on 26 October 2023 - 07:40 AM, said:

Hi, firstly thank you for taking the time out to read this story - Unfortunately yesterday the residents of Tapton terrace suffered terrible flooding again, the flood waters came in so fast they didn’t have time to prepare. My husband put his mothers flood defences up to his chest in the doorways and made preparations to secure the house as he has done many times during such weather warnings. However, when the river burst, the water just came pouring over at rapid speed and the defences did very little.
The waters were much higher than the 2007 flood and came with a faster flow and pressure which resulted in my husband being stopped from trying to enter the property to check on his mum.

After a sleepless night, my husband and son found my 83 year old, housebound, mother-in-law, had passed away. She had unfortunately been unable to escape upstairs at the speed the water levels were rising. Not only do we have an uninsured house as the excess for flood damage was over £10,000 to clean and restore but a funeral to pay for all whilst grieving. She lived on the street all her life, rebuilding after the 2007 flood was hard for us and her but this is just devastating. We now only have memories as everything else is gone.

We would be very grateful for any donation possible, to allow us to say our final goodbye and try to restore what we have left of the property she adored.

That all sounds proper dodgy