Activists from Gloucestershire Animal Action took a break from constant protests to help flood victims on Royal Well Road on Friday after a storm drain went out of control. Activists spend several hours helping to sandbag the homes and gardens of local residents.Unfortunately we quickly ran out of sandbags but had a large amount of sand still available, so was asked politely if the George Hotel could let us use some pillow cases to fill with sand, the staff member smirked and refused. He was then told that the homes of the elderly were flooding round in the lane and it wouldn’t hurt to give us ten cases to save the homes of local residents we would pay for them if needs be. “Sorry, cant help you.”
After an hour of trying desperately to construct flood defences using any available materials we approached the George again and luckily spoke to a more sympathetic staff member who could obviously see that despite our differences in regards to the Foie Gras demos we were trying to help people who’s lives were going to be turned upside down if we did not hurry. We were given 6 pillow cases which were immediately filled and placed in doorways.
The defences held long enough for a pump to arrive and the lane was drained over a matter of hours.
