People grabbed buckets and brooms to bail out houses in Home Farm Crescent and passed electrical equipment out of houses.

Resident Tracy-Ann Margrave said: "Everyone was helping out and smiling and using buckets to get as much water out of the homes as we could.
"There were two fire engines and one support vehicle there too.

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"The drains couldn't cope with the extra rain - there was sewerage pumping out into people's gardens."

Mrs Margrave said her electricity went off at 7.30am on Friday and did not come back on until between 2pm and 4pm.

Flooding in the village also caused Whitnash Primary School to close for several days and cancel a planned 50th anniversary celebration.
It had to shut on Friday after classrooms and the main hall became filled with water.

The school's chair of governors, Judy Falp said: "We use the hall for PE and for lunches and there was lots of water in there. We were particularly worried that its 50-year-old parquet floor would lift and be ruined but we've had the blowers on all weekend and hopefully it'll be OK. We're confident we will be able to re-open on Wednesday.

"All the carpets in the key stage two area need replacing and it smells pretty bad at the moment. It's a great shame because the school has been doing so well recently, coming out of special measures and so on."

The school also had to cancel a 50th anniversary celebration which was due to be held on Friday July 13 and has now been postponed until October.

Coun Bernard Kirton (Ind, Whitnash) believes last week's flooding highlighted the need for action to be taken.

He had already set up a residents' meeting to discuss flooding in the Landor and Summerton area. It will take place at 7.30pm on July 9 in the Community Centre.

Coun Kirton said: "The flooding was really on an unparalleled scale last week and it has affected and upset a great many people here. Flood defenses were established around two years ago and some coped with the water but others didn't do so well.

"It seems to me the storm and sewer systems are not good enough.
"Flooding has been an ongoing problem in Whitnash and I hope to also hold a general meeting after discussions with the mayor. If we can get representatives from Severn Trent and other appropriate officers to come and discuss things, maybe we can make some progress."




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