Last week’s flash floods delivered 3 inches of rain in 90 minutes. And flooding in the garage of my apartment block. And, from there, sewage from the mains flooded in as well - over a metre deep. The pumps that supply water to the many flats were completely submerged and all simultaneously stopped working (as you might expect!).

For a week we had no water.

This is what I found.

2. Some people really aren’t very nice

We had no water due to an Act of God. No one was negligent, it was no one’s fault. We were all in it together. The management company worked hard and non stop to fix the problem.

Yet, the verbal abuse they got incessantly from a seemingly never-ending stream of unhappy people was just appalling and completely unacceptable. It was, of course, an inconvenience, but really. With everything happening around the world at the moment, is it that hard to be civil to other humans?