Wigan families count cost of 'worst storm in living memory' as New Year floods devastate homes

Twenty families evacuated from homes; residents lost possessions, Christmas presents, and household items; one family's irreplaceable ashes of deceased parents rescued by firefighters.

On the first morning of the new year, floodwaters rose with brutal swiftness through the terraced streets of Platt Bridge in Wigan, submerging homes and businesses under more than four feet of water and forcing twenty families to flee with little more than what could be carried. The pumping infrastructure meant to protect the neighbourhood failed under the volume, exposing a systemic fragility that residents had never been forced to reckon with before. In the wreckage of Christmas gifts, family photographs, and livelihoods, a community found itself asking not only how to rebuild, but whether t

Wigan families count cost of 'worst storm in living memory' as New Year floods devastate homes

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