“My couch met me in the kitchen yesterday morning," Beveridge said. “The oven’s still got a bit of soup in it ... probably cold by now”, he said, as he pulled out a warming drawer full of brown water. “The whole house is swimming, really.” Peter Meecham Daniel Beveridge in his waterlogged garage. The flatmates had moved most of their ruined furniture to the front lawn by mid-Monday. But Beveridge said there was a pensioner’s flat out the back, and it had been hit even harder. “There’s an obvious tide line the whole way through his house. It was over the toilet seat.