Tewkesbury floods - one year on
by Rob Mason ~ July 28th, 2008 Filed under: Random.
So it’s one year on from the floods here in Tewkesbury and life is almost back to normal for most people.
The recent Over the Rainbow* event sought to remind everyone about the dramatic events last summer, but to also try and put it behind us and move on. Sadly this isn’t the case across the town as there are still people in caravans waiting for their homes to be sorted out, so it’s not over yet.
Loads of residents banded together to march through the town to show solidarity. Some also went to Westminster to petition the government against building any new homes on the floodplains. Sadly the government still pushed through plans to build over 14,000 new homes in flood affected areas ensuring that if the weather conspires against us again, we’ll be in exactly the same situation! I’ll restrain myself form expressing my views on the government at this point as I don’t want the post to degenerate into a political rant.
Still it’s great to see the town pulling together and making a point. This is what a community feels like and I’m proud to live in Tewkesbury.
* Aside rant: I know the website was probably pulled together quite quickly, budgets were low and it’ll only be used for a limited time, but come on! Lacklustre design, invalid code, clashing text colour, no semantic markup, inline styles…the list goes on. It’s disappointing the production values couldn’t have been higher.
