Fishlake: When the community was badly flooded in 2019 - Sheepish Productions - video Dailymotion

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Jeremy Fletcher has written Fishlake, a play that draws on his experience and that of fellow villagers when the community was badly flooded in 2019.  Video supplied by Sheepish Productions.

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00:00It's like being at the coast at night. A massive expanse of water across the road

00:09and a wave, an unrelenting wave. Groups of people watching the tide come in.

00:19No council, no emergency services, no one. Just groups of villagers.

00:32It's still 50 metres from us. Maybe it won't come for us. At the T-junction, maybe it'll do a left.

00:43Ten minutes ago, it was deserted here. Ten minutes ago, the corner of Pinfold Lane wasn't flooding.

00:52Ten minutes ago, I had dry shoes.

00:57There's this blackness. Not like water. Like thick black oil. The blackness spreads.

01:08Just an ordinary village. Families, friends, ladies.

01:16What do you say to someone when their house is flooding?

01:20For how is bedrockless to be?

01:24For how could you live, living in five hours?

01:30If you didn't live in five minutes ago, you'd have 80 percent to release pää Lynn motorway.

01:34That's why you Heinrich Aubsey Schoolers head.

01:37Feel free of three queues!

01:39For this pours we have 20 an hour today.

01:41You'll always wait until you've got 300 guests in the evening.

Fishlake: When the community was badly flooded in 2019 - Sheepish Productions

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