22 July 2007

Floods Update - 2

BBC News is reporting that:

- The Association of British Insurers has said the total bill for the June and July floods could reach £2bn.
- In Upton-on-Severn, the Army is bringing food and water into the town, which is virtually cut off. Fire crews are also taking food parcels into Worcestershire towns.
- Severn Trent Water says 150,000 homes are without water in Gloucestershire after a treatment works was flooded.
- Another 200,000 people could eventually be cut off in Gloucester, Tewkesbury and Cheltenham.
- The RAF has been drafted in to protect a substation at risk of flooding, and power supplies to 500,000 people in Gloucestershire are also threatened

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