Floods!

It must be devastating, I hope everyone affected will be able to get all the necessary help. There's been very bad weather this winter, from storms to snow, and flooding.
We've been lucky here, we've not had any snow or floods but we did have some gales before Christmas.
I count my blessings every day and give thanks for the good things in life, we don't know what's going to happen next do we.

We returned from Cuenca, Spain yesterday afternoon. As we were returning home from the airport I saw there were many fields covered in water. I thought there must have been heavy rain & my thoughts were confirmed as we entered Huntingdon & drove alongside the river. It had flooded Riverside Park, though not as much as before Christmas.

On our balcony there was an old soup plate (1 on those that I put under my pots of plants during the summer) which had stayed out & was overflowing with rain water.

We hadn't heard of floods in the UK while we were in Cuenca. Nevertheless our hearts go out to people affected by them. A cousin of my wife's in Spain, close to Valencia, had her house flooded out when they had the Cold Drop (Dana) in November. They are expecting another one this weekend! Though it's not expected to be anything like that in November.

My wife talked to her cousin who lives in a town near Valencia & who had been affected by the flooding as well. She says she’s stilling waiting for her house to dry out before the work of recovery can start. She was heartbroken over the devastation caused by the flood waters but, like a great many other people who were affected in her town, she has to wait on insurance claims as well as for construction workers! They are in such great demand she will have to wait several more weeks before the work can begin!

That must be devastating for her Balcony and when you think how much these insurance companys charge, it's disgusting how people have to wait so long to be compensated.

Yes, you are quite right, Rose!