The terrible floods in parts of the UK have left families without power and fresh water. Read some iVillagers' first-hand accounts

Hi all, still alive! Things are pretty disastrous here, following floods on Friday. Lucie was stranded at nursery as well as all the other children. I had to wade through waist-deep water to get to the nursery and rescue her. The Fire Brigade turned up soon after and rescued the remaining children!

The water has now been contaminated and we are without any form of water in our properties for up to 14 days. We have bowsers (pumps) placed about the streets but they don't last long! Power was off for 24 hours due to power station fears of flooding but luckily the military have managed to stop that happening and now power is restored! I can't quite believe it. Everyone is bulk buying; so little bread/milk left in shops!
hilaryclev

Well, for now the flood water has gone down, leaving a hell of a mess behind. Every shop in town was hit badly. They won't be back open for weeks if not months as all the floors have collapsed. Pavements have collapsed and windows were smashed from the pressure of the water. The main bridge into town has been closed off as they still think it's going to collapse.

It's got major cracks to it along with another bridge on the other side of town, so we still can't go far. We have been told that the water isn't safe to drink as it's been contaminated. I have done a montage of it all here but it doesn't really show the true extent of the floods, as until the water started to go down I couldn't get near enough to take any pictures. It was way too deep and would have been over my head. It has devastated such a small town and we have been told there is more to come.
mumsy1982

Well, I took Thomas to nursery at 12.45pm. It started to rain a little. I got in the car to have my driving lesson and it got harder and harder. It scared the living daylights out of me and I had to pull over for a bit.

Finished driving lesson - had to do a real emergency stop as a car went on the wrong side of the road as he couldn't see for all the water. The road was like a river. I have never ever seen anything like it in my life.

It had rained so much that my neighbour two doors down rang mum to say my garden was flooded. By the time they got down there with my brother it was millimetres away from seeping into the house. There were firemen down here pumping out water. The lady up the road had raw sewage in her house and the drains overflowed.

The garden is water free-ish at the moment, but its a mess and the grass is a bog. My dog walks on it and it's up to her knees. Thank God that they came down when they did and thank God for my neighbour who rang them!
Proud_mummy_of_2

Well, it's going to get worse before it gets better apparently. Our electricity went off last night and again this morning. It's back on now so thought I'd quickly pop online while I can!

We're going to try and get out of the village if we can later and drive out of the county to get some water as all the shops sold out yesterday. We're going to buy baby jars as well so if the electricity goes off again at least we have food for Poppy.
Sparkling_daisy

We've had a hellish three days. On Friday I got caught in flash floods while out driving, water was coming over the top of my bonnet and I was driving around a roundabout that had become a lake. Good job it is a familiar roundabout and I at least had a clue where the road was and where the concrete central area was. I swear I haven't been that scared in a very long time.

I haven't been driving very long and certainly not driven much in rain or severe conditions. Our neighbour's house was 1cm away from flooding and our garden is a lake.

Tesco and the entire car park at the end of our road was submerged under two foot of water and all the roads were rivers. Christian thought it was the greatest fun ever and spent the entire afternoon after I rescued him from nursery wandering around saying 'biiiiiiiiiiiig puddles'.

We took him out for a walk later in his wellies and he had the greatest time and managed to put a smile on everyone's faces as they stood despairing at the destruction around them before seeing this blissfully happy two-year-old having so much fun in the biiiiiiiiiiiiig puddles. Wellies were a bit of a waste of time though as most of the smaller puddles went over the top of them.
cl-bunchesoftrouble

You can help flood victims by donating to the British Red Cross National Floods Appeal