Water, water everywhere

How you react when your home is flooded is crucial not least for safety and insurance reasons, writes Kya deLongchamps.

Flooding has become a very real issue in the past few years, and for many families with property in or close to flood basins living by rivers and lakes, it’s a perennial worry.

For the rest of us, the idea of being knee deep or completely swamped in our own homes whether from an act of nature or a burst water main seems so unlikely that we don’t ever plan for what we would do if catastrophe struck.