a selfish moan.....how is everyone else coping?

lil_me

If you can't use the bath that is where I would store the laundry, saves it being everywhere. Some essential oils on a cloth next to it might help keep the smells down. With the kitchen floor a stiff brush once it dries should get a lot of the muck off save any reusable grey water from washing etc, or even rain water in a bucket to clean the floors if possible, might make it more livable. You can also get floor wipes which might help. If you do end up with 'Washing' water and gets in your pipes make sure you clear them through before drinking when the cleaner stuff comes through. Plastic/paper plates and cups can be ideal, ok not very MSE or green but can help in times like this. Saves the washing up.

If I lived closer you'd be more than welcome to use my shower, machine etc, pity is I'm about 200 miles away. Needless to say thinking of all who are affected at this very difficult time.

angchris

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester

In a shower of rain,

He stepped in a puddle,

Right up to his middle,

And never went there again!!!

oh how apt is that nursery rhyme this week!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

PaleScene

angchris wrote: »

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester

In a shower of rain,

He stepped in a puddle,

Right up to his middle,

And never went there again!!!

oh how apt is that nursery rhyme this week!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

I was quoting that to myself on Friday after going ankle deep on the Bath Road. I was still in a great mood at that point before trying to get home to Cleeve... all routes exhausted and a detour to Tewkesbury that I heartily regretted I ended up bunking with my Aunt for the night - it was more flooded at hers than at my house, but the ring of water at least made it accessible!

We've just come back today from five days in Torquay with relatives so now the camping restrictions start.

Good luck to everyone

BigNige

good luck to everyone....hope normal service is restored soon....

JoeyG

PaleScene wrote: »

I was quoting that to myself on Friday after going ankle deep on the Bath Road.

I too was ankle deep on Friday in Bath Road...what I was quoting was far less repeatable though!... especially when my umbrella broke!

Its only 5 mins walk from my office, but I dont think i've ever been so drenched in my life... and I had my waterproofs on!

angchris

lil_me wrote: »

If you can't use the bath that is where I would store the laundry, saves it being everywhere.

i think the bath is where most people are trying to store water to use in the toilet with the aid of the handy bucket. it is in my house anyway
it feels like we have plummeted back to the year 1900`s when my great gran used to have to trundle up the road with her bucket to the village pump. it just shows how we take the simple things in life for granted, its certainly made me realise just how much we do waste water and how little we can actually live with using daily.

Mercenary

Thankfully most of us have electricity (some still don't), otherwise our taster of total loss of water, power and phones last Monday served as a dire forewarning of what it could have been like without power and water for all this time :eek::eek:!

That would have really plunged us back into the Dark Ages.

angchris wrote:

it just shows how we take the simple things in life for granted, its certainly made me realise just how much we do waste water and how little we can actually live with using daily.

I agree. We actually need to use very little....it's laundry that really uses it. Haven't done any of that yet apart from rinsing the odd few pairs of underwear through. We all have a lot of clothes these days that we can wear for longer than we would usually, so it's not too hard to go without a washing machine for a short while. I'm just dreading the pile that I face when the situation is all back to normal.

tomstickland

It's certainly made most people aware of how convenient tap water is, and how it is an essential part of our quality of life, along with sewage treatment.

Regarding laundry, I wash everything at 30deg C, on the Eco setting, with the half load button on. I'm also very stingey with the washing liquid. Take a shirt that's been worn at work for a day, how much washing does it really need?

Joscar

Link is from Stroud District Council. Showers are at the swimming pools, I have not been myself, but sounds like a good idea for those of you who are starting to smell !!!!!!
:eek:




http://www.stroud.gov.uk/docs/flooding/showers.asp?did=showers