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Tina Groves had just tuned into the diving on television at her home in Ilminster when she heard the rushing of water. The 74-year-old, who’s visually impaired, thought it was part of the TV coverage at first. But it was coming from her kitchen.
“That brings new meaning to surround sound,” says the Prince of Wales, to laughter, as he sits with Groves in Sweet Surprise cafe on Ilminster High Street. “It’s the sort of thing that nobody thinks about; when you have difficulties seeing, how a flooding event might affect you,” adds the prince.
“It was very scary,” says Groves, whose neighbours helped get her out of the house safely and put it back together when the floodwater had receded.
Ilminster in Somerset, England, has, like many towns around the world, faced some extreme weather in recent years. There have been floods, like the one that inundated Groves’ home nine years ago, and, more recently, wildfires.
