'I fled Storm Babet floods with my parrot and 3 dogs - it was like Noah's ark'
A woman who fled her home when Storm Babet hit with her parrot and three dogs says she looked like “Noah’s ark”.
Thousands of homes were evacuated on Saturday and it is feared the devastation could continue as the Met Office issued a fresh yellow weather warning for heavy rain Tuesday covering a vast swathe of England. It could cause more floods in the East Midlands, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Hundreds have been left homeless, with about 1,250 properties in England flooded, the Environment Agency said. A total of 13 areas broke daily rainfall records for October last week, including in South Yorkshire.
Among those to flee in Catcliffe, near Rothertham, was train worker Darcey Smith, 30, who returned to her home in an attempt to rescue her belongings. She told how she had been at her upstairs window watching water pouring through the defences, not over them. Darcey had to rescue her parrot and three dogs.
She said: “It was coming through splits in the flood defences. I packed a bag, put my parrot in a carry case and was evacuated on to the raft at 4.30am. It looked like Noah’s Ark. I know it’s just possessions but it’s your whole life. It’s hard to see your home like this.”
But today there is widespread outrage from locals as they arrive home to see everything destroyed. Many said they were “promised it would never happen again” after devastating floods back in 2007.
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Marcela Farr, 40, was evacuated by and rescue at 4am on Saturday on an ‘inflatable platform’ after water breached the River Rother. At one stage - as she was rowed to safety - the water appeared to be 5 to 6ft deep.
Today the water line can be clearly seen half way up the surrounding homes. “Where is everybody to help us?” Marcela broke down in tears after returning to the home she'd just decorated for Halloween for her daughter Maya, seven. “Nobody is helping us, we’ve just been left on our own. I’m left without anything, just the clothes we were wearing. “
Surveying the damage, her sofa was upturned, the radiator falling off the wall after four feet of flood water, including sewage ran through the ground floor of her home. “Now I am going to live in fear every time it rains, I am not going to be able to sell the house. It’s going to be a nightmare from now on. Our insurance is going to sky high. We are all very disappointed that we didn't get any help."
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