Flimby councillor Carol Tindall was at junior youth group when the village flooded on December 4 last year.

The ground floor of her own house was inundated and she only moved back home at the beginning of June.

She said: “I needed to get home even though the work wasn’t finished. I had another six weeks of painters, electricians, gas people and work going on outside but at least I was home.”


Carol Tindall had water gushing through her garden and into her home Her first memory of the flood, however, is the speed at which the water came.

She said: “I had walked from my house on Westfield View to the Methodist chapel for youth and the road was dry. At 6.45pm we sent the kids home because we were notified that there was a danger Flimby was going to flood. As I walked home the road still looked dry. Then, within a maximum of 16 minutes, I was knee deep in water. It was so fast.”

She stayed in her house until Sunday because, as a town councillor, she felt it was her duty to try to help other villagers.

She added: “I got the Methodist church open that night in case anyone needed shelter or help. It wasn’t used that night but did become the flood centre of the town in the days that followed.”

She and fellow Flimby councillor Peter Kendall organised sandbags.

Coun Tindall said Flimby had always had flood spots but regular maintenance of drains and channels were important and were not always done.