00:00 Okay, so this is the, yeah, this is the after effects of the flood.
00:11 The council have cleared the house this morning.
00:16 They've done an amazing job, I have to say.
00:19 Yeah, and this is what's left of my home.
00:25 It totally, yeah, wiped us out.
00:31 I don't know really what to say.
00:36 What we're doing at the moment is just clearing whatever was in the house.
00:42 This is not my home, this is like, I privately rent, so I do have to find somewhere else to live.
00:48 But it's just clearing out so he can bring his insurers in and do what he needs to do with the house.
00:57 Me, just trying to rescue anything that I can.
01:01 I think, sort of 99% of my things have gone anyway.
01:06 All my photographs, all my personal stuff.
01:09 My photographs of my kids, my photographs of my mother, that have all gone.
01:15 Everything personal has gone.
01:19 And now it's just, I don't know, it's just, where do you start?
01:25 When everything's underwater, amazingly, you're thinking, okay, when the water goes, we'll clean up.
01:32 What you don't realise is what's left when the water goes.
01:36 And the mud and the silt and the smell is awful.
01:43 It's totally destructive.
01:46 You can't save anything.
01:50 Yeah, so, I don't know.
01:52 This was it.
01:54 This was me starting again a year and a half ago.
02:01 It's all gone.
02:06 I know people on the street.
02:11 Yeah, I don't know.
02:13 They're devastated.
02:15 Absolutely devastated.
02:19 But, I don't know.
02:21 We're at a total loss at the moment.
02:23 A total loss at the lack of support.
02:25 A total loss at the lack of help that came.
02:29 And if it wasn't for the people on this road, the community on this road, helping each other out,
02:37 I don't know where half these people would be.
02:41 They would still be, you know, sort of, piled high in all their stuff, not knowing what to do.
02:49 The council, apart from those men that did back-breaking work today, moving people's furniture out,
02:58 there's been nothing, absolutely nothing, nothing from the council.
03:02 It's been, yeah, the lack of support has been appalling.
03:08 Yeah, it has. It's been ridiculous.
03:12 [indistinct chatter]
03:17 I like the dam, because the council, they said they were quite happy with everybody together.
03:22 What happened to them?
03:23 Yeah, well, they come down and took a video, whatever it is.
03:28 And everyone, he was stood down at the retail part taking pictures.
03:32 [indistinct chatter]
03:50 [indistinct chatter]
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