Community Spirit That Lifted Desperate Days ; in Our Second Feature Looking Back at the Extraordinary Floods Which Caused Havoc in East Devon a Year Ago, Reporter John Fletcher Looks at How Residents Overcame the Chaos

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › October 31, 2009

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THE floods which wreaked havoc across East Devon one year ago has created an unrivalled community spirit, sat its victims. In Ottery St Mary, 150 properties were damaged in freak, overnight storms.

Victims of the Ottery floods had little warning of the damage that lay in store on the night of October 30, 2008.

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Community Spirit That Lifted Desperate Days ; in Our Second Feature Looking Back at the Extraordinary Floods Which Caused Havoc in East Devon a Year Ago, Reporter John Fletcher Looks at How Residents Overcame the Chaos

Residents of the Thorn Farm estate say they are finally returning to normal life after their homes and lives were turned upside down by the floods.

Alan O'Donnell, chairman of the local residents' association, said membership has never been as strong.

"It's...

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