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Originally Posted by wadey
I tell this story Margaret but nobody believes me, I went to a friend's Gran's at Walsden mid 70s and she had lines drawn up the vestibule wall. I asked her why and she explained that it was always flooding so she marked the heights. After each flood they would put the furniture and rugs outside wait for it to dry and then start again !
If you walk up Rochdale Road you can see slots either side of the doorways into which they put planks of wood when it rained, having spent hundreds of millions of pounds my son's flooded yesterday !
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My auntie had those slots too....she threaded a floodboard into the slots once the river reached a certain height...and then we went about lifting the rugs and the furniture.
She had no electricty, only gas.
I am sorry to hear about your son. I really feel for those who have been flooded out. I know what it is like and the mess it leaves behind.