Horrendous flooding and now the water supply is being cut off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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PAnic buying in all the supermarkets. Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury is loosing it's water supply within the hour and won't be back on for several days!!!!!!!!!!

Furball -if you can get to us you're more than welcome to come and use our shower or bath. Trouble is I'm not sure where the floods are in the surrounding roads and villages as we've not left town since its all happened.

I'm serious about the offer though

PS -off to bed now but email me if you want to take me up on the offer

Really kind Betty thank you, but I don't think I can get to you. I've decided to ring Chipping Campden and ask if they are open. Other problem is Ds is under the weather so can't take him for a few days but hopefully by Friday I shall be squeaky clean! Decided to eat off paper plates and just chuck em out. Now where is there a laundrette and I'm sorted

We are in coleford and we stil have water at the moment.

No one seems to know if we are going to lose it or not and if the other substation goes down we won't have power.

just be warned Broadway and Moreton in marsh were both flooded, though they may be ok now. Actually I think Chipping Campden was too but again not sure anymore

is anyone else loving the news at the moment with how we talk on it all the time?
Sorry for seeming so glib, but do you?

Yes chipping campden was flooded but not sure about the leisure centre so thought I would ring first, fingers crossed and all that. It's my only hope of a wash for a while.

good luck to you.

lucky you Sweeties

They did say they'd get the bowsers to Cheltenham

But as it's outside yr house you know you have to police it don't you?

Rationing to 2 bottles per household only

I'm over in Oxfordshire and we were flooded last week - we've just cleared up and have water and electricity back now. If anyone gets really desperate, CAT me, we have a log cabin, sleeps up to seven at a push, in the garden. We also have some bloody marvelous power showers (with water!)

Sweeties - Whaddon or Hester's Way by any chance?

WMMC - stop it. I can't bear the thought of a lovely power shower. Lucky you.

2 weeks how on earth am I going to manage for 2 weeks! just praying the electric doesn't go altogether.

The power situation looks more hopeful now, the Environment Agency (hm) reckons the waters have peaked (2" below what would have breached the big substation). We got bowsers relatively early yesterday, as the water went off relatively early. Getting off relatively lightly really, no flooding here (half way up a hill, although that was what meant the water failed early!) and power hasn't gone off at all. DD's nursery is closed, but so is work (mostly) so we just need to figure out what to do with some unexpected time off.

Just wanted to say chin up and all that. I'm miles from you but if there is anything I could possibly do to help just yell. This is probably a pants suggestion but I can probably parcel up some clothes, plates etc - I know it can't get through for a while but might help anyone who has lost that type of stuff. I feel so helpless watching the news and just wish I could do something to make life a bit better for you all.

Sorry to hijack but just wanted to sa Dontcallmebaby I've just done some supersleuthing (i.e. stalking) and I reckon you and I work at the same place - though I am currently on maternity leave!

Just seen on BBC new that prats have been going round in Gloucester and opening the taps of the bowsers and leaving them open what does it take for these extreme idiots to realise this could be life or death where drinking water is concerned, that is everybodys life support for the next few days at least.

A mother gave birth to premature twins at her flooded home shortly before she was winched to safety by RAF rescuers.
The woman's family had raised the alarm but she had given birth at the family home in Tewkesbury before the rescue helicopters arrived.

"The twins were winched into one helicopter and the mother into another helicopter," said Flt Lt Douglas Larkam, of the B Flight 22 Squadron.

The mother and babies were flown to Cheltenham General hospital.

"As I understand it, she had given birth moments before we arrived," said Flt Lt Larkam, whose squadron is based at Wattisham Airfield, Suffolk.

"To be winched into a helicopter must have been pretty nerve-wracking for her.

"To her credit, she was quite calm during the flight."

The rescue took place just after 0500 BST on Saturday, 21 July.

Hope her birth story appears here

just read on skynews that the twins died after being being born at 21 weeks.