Woman canoes across carpark as floods hit London
A woman had to canoe across a carpark outside her flat after floods hit east London.
Original artwork and thousands of pounds of books were reportedly damaged by the flood, said to have been caused by the banks of a nearby canal bursting after a night of heavy rain.
One resident described wading through water to rescue her pets and said she will have to replace “everything” on the ground floor.
At 10.16pm on Thursday, 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters were called to flooding over a 10-acre area in Hackney Wick, east London, particularly affecting Dace Road and Wick Lane, the (LFB) said.
