A WOMAN has revealed how she lost everything after new-build developers cut corners.
Lucy Alice, from the UK, took to social media to share the devastating effect it had on her life and .
Lucy Alice had lost everything she worked for as a flood entered her homeCredit: tiktok/@lucy_alice96
She blamed new-build developers for leaving her home in turmoilCredit: tiktok/@lucy_alice96
Taking to social media, she said: “A day our lives got flipped upside down and in the space of a few hours we lost everything.”
In the video, Lucy shared images of her house after it had been .
The water had risen so high that the majority of her furniture and appliances were destroyed.
Not only that, but her home was covered in ‘blackwater,’ where sewage water mixes in, so they had to be evacuated by the fire services.
Lucy said: “I would have thought the same, ‘it’s just water,’ until I went through it.
“It isn’t just water, the drain covers come up and mixes in with water so it’s become what’s known as ‘blackwater.’
“Electrics get in it, which makes it very unsafe for us, we had to be evacuated by the fire service because it was incredibly dangerous and unsafe.
“Anything the water touched had to go, it was the case of drying it out or wiping it down. It had to go.”
” We saved some smaller bits as luckily my husband was home when it happened,” she continued.
“But it truly felt like everything that had taken years, that we worked so hard for, was gone within a few hours.”
Lucy revealed that she did rent the place and many asked if it was a new build, which she confirmed it was not.
However, she did claim that developers played a huge part in the ordeal.
“We aren’t in a new build but a recent new build development was a massive factor in why so many houses which were not new builds got flooded,” she explained.
She claimed that they were not deemed as a high-risk area of flooding as three fields surrounding them were floodplains to support heavy rainfall.
But this changed when these fields were built on.
“We are ,” she added. “But you can see all these things on the council website and it wasn’t deemed high risk as we had three fields that were flood plains that supported for heavy rain. But the floodplains got built on and other factors.”
The clip of Lucy’s home went viral on her TikTok account @ lucy_alice96 with over 176k views and 1,500 likes.
Many took to the comments to share their sympathies with the mum.
One person wrote: “I feel for you. Awful for you and your family.”
Another commented: “I’m sorry, it’s so hard to clean up after a flood.”
“Who spilt the mug?” penned a third.
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Meanwhile a fourth said: “This happened to my dad last year after and he’s still not allowed back in his home.”
“How do you even recover from something like this,” claimed a fifth.
Someone else added: “We flooded 2 years ago from Storm Babet! Totally understand how heartbreaking this is.”
