Re: [Sheflug] Normality

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Fisher wrote:
> Morris, David (Allvac, UK) wrote:
>> I hope everyone in Sheffield is getting back to some sense of normality
>> after the "fun" of the last couple of days and that no-one's suffered
>> any major catastrophic loss.
>>
>> Let all your servers be upstairs and your backup tapes be even higher.
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> I have just emailed my friend in Holland to see if we can borrow the 
> little boy who stuck his finger in the dyke (have you seen the forecast 
> for the weekend?).  We are high enough here to avoid the immediate 
> problems, but it has been a hellish week!
> 
I'm just hoping they fix the Ulley dam before the weekend's weather 
arrives.  Has a power station in its path if it does go.

Otherwise fine here, high enough and far enough away from the Don 
although the Jervis Lum has been running through.  Much sweeping of 
water out of garage.

Wicker was a bit of a mud bath yesterday with lots of businesses 
cleaning up as best they are able but most basically out of action. 
Postie said it's chaos at work with Brightside sorting office out. 
Rolling power cuts in some postcodes while they fix the electrics and I 
heard a road had collapsed out Hillsborough way yesterday.  See 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire for more info.

Although things are tough here for many and not forgetting we lost two 
local people to the floods, a boy at Millhouses and a 68 year old man at 
the Wicker, I think we aren't having it as bad as some.  Pakistan lost 
200 people in a storm in Karachi and 17 in a cyclone with 250,000 now 
homeless. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6247884.stm)

Regards

L.

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