Households throughout Surrey have continued to really feel the influence of Storm Eunice 4 days after it hit the area, with a whole lot of properties nonetheless experiencing electrical energy and water provide points.
As of Tuesday morning (22 February), greater than a thousand properties have been nonetheless with out electrical energy within the county and surrounding areas.
An replace from Thames Water on Tuesday afternoon mentioned that every one properties ought to now have had their water provides restored.
SurreyLive has been listening to from readers in each nook of the county concerning the struggles they’ve confronted for the reason that storm left a path of destruction on Friday.
Residents on Wonham Method in Peaslake are amongst those that had their water provide disrupted over the weekend, and even had a tanker go to earlier in the present day to ship water into the pipes that serve the road.
Holly Odlind, 44, lives on the street together with her husband and two youngsters. She says the realm has had points with its water provide on a number of events over the previous two years, however that the issues have been at their worst this week.
“We’ve not been capable of bathe as a result of now we have to restrict what little water we do have,” she mentioned. “It appears like we’re residing in a 3rd world nation, and everybody on the road is simply extremely pissed off with it.”
In the meantime, repeated energy cuts round Frimley Inexperienced and Deepcut have induced disruption for individuals who reside within the space.
One man mentioned that he needed to juggle work with taking care of his younger son yesterday, as a result of the close by Blackdown pre-school had closed as a consequence of an influence lower.
“We’ve a one-year-old youngster and are apprehensive concerning the heating going off at evening,” mentioned one other resident. “We have simply had candles on at evening when it bought darkish,” he mentioned.
Andrew Hing, 55, who runs Ivy Wooden Cattery in Deepcut, instructed SurreyLive on Monday: “It is affected us massively. We’ve a bit of generator we’re utilizing for the cattery aspect of issues, for a bit of little bit of heating and lighting for the cats.
“We won’t settle for any extra cats, however we’re taking care of those now we have. I’ve bought younger youngsters and an aged mom, so it is not perfect. We’ve not been supplied any assist.”
The Jet storage in Frimley Inexperienced was with out electrical energy for about 20 minutes on Saturday and used a generator all through the remainder of the weekend.
In keeping with one employee on the storage, they’d usually have about 500 clients per day however over the weekend that quantity dropped to under 100.
In the meantime, a Fb consumer in Holmbury St Mary needed to transfer out of her dwelling after the issues mounted for the reason that storm.
“I’ve been with out energy since Friday morning,” wrote Rachel Armanda. “I’ve no heat water, no gasoline and now the water has come off as effectively. I’m now staying with a good friend as l can’t face one other chilly evening.”
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