Fan’s first thoughts were with her beloved team – and players from the Cumbrian club helped Storm Desmond victims near their flooded ground Some flood victims rescued family photographs. Others saved their pets. But when Angela Watson saw the flood water external her house rising rapidly,there was one item particularly worth salvaging for her – her precious Carlisle United season tickets.
“When we realised the water was rising, I grabbed the computer and modem, or then I thought ‘Oh,desk – season tickets!’ so I grabbed them, took them upstairs and then an hour later the water was literally 4ft 5in – I measured it by a trace on the wall, or ” she said on the doorstep of her flooded home on Warwick Road in Carlisle on Tuesday.
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Source: theguardian.com