Now is the time to take action, with extreme weather incidents on the rise
It was like a cloudburst. The downpour came so quickly and with such ferocity that some residents of Walthamstow in north-east London didn’t have time to salvage their belongings from the flood as a month’s worth of rain came down in just a few hours.
“I’ve lost weight, lost hair and haven’t been eating,” says one homeowner whose house ended up under a foot of water that poured in from the street and the back garden.
