When the flood hit,<\/a> the water was at chest height and took everything downstairs with it.<\/p>\n“We didn’t have any warning, I opened the front door – it was just a river outside, and there was nobody there,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The water was above the mantlepiece – that amount of water lifted all of the furniture, everything had been floating.”<\/p>\n
Amelia, her husband and four-year-old son are in rented accommodation and this Christmas will be very different.<\/p>\n
“We’ve just had to start again really,” she said.<\/p>\n
The family do not know when they will be able to return home.<\/p>\n
She added: “Because we don’t have insurance it’s down to us.<\/p>\n
“Obviously there’s things we can’t do until it dries out fully, the kitchen we can’t put anything in now because it’s still wet – people with insurance have been told six months.”<\/p>\n
Amelia said she had no plans to move, but believed it would be hard to sell the house now.<\/p>\n
“I think it would be really difficult to sell this house now – I don’t think anyone’s going to be looking to buy on Drybridge Street – but it would be nice to live a little higher,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amelia Raymond is now ripping out the fixtures, fittings and furniture in her recently renovated home in Monmouth.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-333089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}