This week torrential rain in the North of England has flooded parts of Cumbria. And there’s more severe weather on its way.
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The BBC News site advises:
- Gather essential items together either upstairs or in a high place – have torches, medication and waterproofs to hand.
- Fill jugs and saucepans with clean water.
- Move your family and pets upstairs, or to a high place with a means of escape.
- Turn off gas, electricity and water supplies when flood water is about to enter your home, if it is safe to do so.
- Do not on any account touch sources of electricity when standing in flood water.
- Keep listening to local radio for updates or call the Environment Agency Floodline on 0845 988 1188.
- Flood water can rise quickly; stay calm and reassure those around you. Call 999 if you are in danger.
Courtesy of: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8370243.stm
To stay in touch the very best place to get up to the minute news seems to be the Cumbrian Twitter service: http://twitter.com/cumbriacc .
There’s also some very interesting citizen journalism happening. Check out the audio blogging on this Audioboo page.
Schools have naturally been effected by this. There’s little we can do to help on a practical basis but we’d like to do what we can. For example, we have made our Floods movie free this week.
We would also like to offer 6 weeks of BrainPOP UK completely free to any school that has had to close during this time.
You can pass the login details to your kids and they can watch Tim & Moby anywhere they can get access to the internet, including home use.
We know it’s only a small thing but if you are one of the schools that has been closed please get in touch and we’ll sort it out from there.
