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Phil mackie has been to see some of the people caught up in the floods. remember this nick lupton s house surrounded by floods and defended by the wall he built? the film we took last week has been viewed more than 30 million times. today, the house is attached to the mainland again. welcome. glad to see it so dry, at last. yes, dry is good. after being stranded inside for a week, the waters receded and we got to see the defenses close up. you can see previously we had a little bit of damp coming up the wall. oh, it s always a relief when the river goes down. we re into the recovery now. there s a fewjobs to do, even though the wall is keeping it away from the house. during storm henk, a torrent of water began pouring in. but the walls kept it out. nick built his flood wall 30 centimetres higher than the record level, but it may not be enough in the future. in the old days, we used to put these temporary barriers up here, which used to take hours and hours to put up dave throup spe ....
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