In the wake of Storm Babet
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 25 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:07.8 | Today, underwater and under-prepared, |
| 0:12.6 | assessing the damage caused by storm debate. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm from the area where the flood happened in Derbicia, |
| 0:26.5 | and to my knowledge, this kind of flood |
| 0:28.5 | has never happened in the 48 years I've lived in the area. |
| 0:31.8 | Steve Winfield is a lorry driver. |
| 0:34.4 | He was working an overnight shift on Thursday, |
| 0:37.0 | when news reports on the radio warned |
| 0:38.7 | that a storm was about to hit the East Midlands. |
| 0:41.8 | Never really considered that it was going to be what it was, |
| 0:45.0 | and I went home, went back to bed, |
| 0:47.4 | and I woke up at a broccoli around 20 past 11 |
| 0:49.9 | with about hanging on the front door. |
| 0:53.9 | And that was my neighbour, Dean, |
| 0:55.6 | trying to wake me up because he knew I wasn't nice, |
| 0:57.4 | to say, did I need a hand to sort of race things in the shed. |
| 1:00.8 | When I looked at the back window, |
| 1:02.4 | the entire rear garden was submerged. |
| 1:05.7 | At that point, it was probably about two feet of water, |
| 1:09.1 | and I'm thinking I've got plenty of time to do things. |
| 1:12.6 | Like anyone in this situation, he had to prioritize. |
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