A COUPLE who are still living in a caravan after the summer floods say they are on edge every time it rains.
Michelle and Colin Tearne have been living in mobile homes in their back garden since flash floods in July rendered their bungalow, in Beauchamp Lane, Callow End uninhabitable.
The couple hope to move back into their house in May this year once they have installed every flood defence system possible.
"Every time it rains everybody is on edge," said 40-year-old Mrs Tearne. "We are lifting floors and having a retaining wall built behind the patio because we do not want this to happen again.
"We will put in every flood defence going because at the end of the day if I was buying a house I would want to make sure it would not be flooded."
Two doors down from the Tearns lives Wendy Nuut, who moved out of her caravan and into her house in the second week of December.
"You cannot live your life worried you are going to flood every year," she said.
"You have to live with it otherwise you would end up killing yourself from worry. You have got to soldier on, haven't you?
"But people do panic when it rains and there is talk of flooding."
"On Saturday, I got a flood alert from the Environment Agency and I ran out in the dark with my torch to check the road, but it was OK.
"One of my elderly neighbours ran up here in a panic.
"He did not know what to do and was worried he was going to flood, so I took him up to the Bluebell pub to get some sandbags.
"He is OK at the moment, she said."
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