THE FLOOD WATER IN THE 300 YEAR OLD THATCHED COTTAGE IN HEMMINGFORD ABBOTS,CAMBS, BEING PUMPED OUT.


THE FLOOD WATER IN THE 300 YEAR OLD THATCHED COTTAGE IN HEMMINGFORD ABBOTS,CAMBS, BEING PUMPED COTTAGE FLOODED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 300 YEARS IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THIS MORNING (DEC 27). A 300-year-old thatched cottage flooded for the FIRST time ever today (Thurs) after the Great Ouse burst its house in the pretty village of Hemingford Abbots in Cambridgeshire, was filled with two feet of water after another night of torrential shocked owners, who moved into the cottage just a month ago, only discovered their home had been flooded when the milkman knocked on the had been upstairs sleeping and came down to find the bottom of their property underwater, with furniture from Anglian Water are now at the cottage, pumping out the dirty roads and gardens in the nearby village of St Ives were also flooded today, trapping home owners some places the only way for residents to leave their houses was by have predicted 2012 could be the wettest year on record as Britain faces six weeks' worth of rain in the next five days. adding yet more water to already saturated fields.


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Location: HEMMINGFORD ABBOTS CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Photo credit: © Geoffrey Robinson / Alamy / Afripics
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