Flood victims smashing up household appliances and furniture

[Meredith]

I can imagine that by now that the stink is horrible.

I live near Sheffield, fortunately on top of a hill, but I am surrounded by the flooding of a few weeks ago.

My point was that in all this chaos, and believe me I know people affected by this, there doesn't seem to be any common sense applied. I know it is an emergency situation, in Tewksbury and surrounding districts certainly.

Anyway, I feel rather guilty after grumbling about looters, I haven't been looting but I have a friend who's offices have been flooded and the whole lot tipped into a skip. It was assessed by the insurers and destined for landfill. I'm not sre that what I've done is strictly legal but I did have permission. I have taken two leather office chairs. The mucky water was in the tubular legs and the wheels at the bottom but I've taken them to pieces and disinfected them and so far we have not come down with any dreaded lurgy. The other dozen or so chairs have gone to landfill and this must be okay because if it wasn't there would be an awful lot more people making a fuss about it than me.

Meredith.

[flower]

I did feel sorry for them, and was willing to help, but i'm not now.

If i was anything to do with the insurance assessors, i'd be turning down the claims due to wilful damage od property.

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Good God! these poor people have been thru so much! I would imagine that they are shocked and dazed, utterly distraught!
maybe the authorities told them to do it, maybe they didn't. Either way...to sit in a warm dry house and judge and condemn them?

where ever is your humanity???

[magenta flame]

My husband works with a couple of people that were caught in our recent floods . One of them lives next door to a cabbage farm so now she has stinking rotting cabbages all piled up along a 50 metre fence line. Now that's awful. They can't remove them yet because the tractors will simply bog.

[the.fee.fairy]

I did feel sorry for them, and was willing to help, but i'm not now.

If i was anything to do with the insurance assessors, i'd be turning down the claims due to wilful damage od property.

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Good God! these poor people have been thru so much! I would imagine that they are shocked and dazed, utterly distraught!
maybe the authorities told them to do it, maybe they didn't. Either way...to sit in a warm dry house and judge and condemn them?

where ever is your humanity???

I have plenty of humanity, thankyou.