{"id":364,"date":"2018-10-23T09:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/?page_id=364"},"modified":"2020-03-05T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T11:46:05","slug":"sally-aged-11","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/flood-narratives\/sally-aged-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally aged 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #3366ff;font-size: 12pt\">This is Sally&#8217;s story about what happened to her with some\u00a0key learning points at the end&#8230;<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Background<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">On the evening of 9th February 2014, after days of persistent rain, seven severe flood warnings (the highest category) were put in place for the River Thames in north Surrey. Residents were evacuated and roads and schools were closed. The Staines area experienced clusters of events involving tidal, river, rainfall and groundwater flooding. These four stories, taken from our \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/floodrecovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Children, Young People and Flooding: Recovery and Resilience<\/a>\u2019 project, show how flooding can reveal, and even exacerbate, existing social vulnerabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Sally, aged 11\u00a0years, lives in a house with her parents; her dad is a wheelchair user.<\/strong> Sally saw the weather forecasts on television and was aware that severe flooding was forecast for her local area, so (unlike her parents) she packed a suitcase \u2018just in case\u2019 she had to leave home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Annabelle G3 11\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/estream.lancaster.ac.uk\/Embed.aspx?id=5242&amp;code=bk~nEq7t2NigciTJ26aMhhEH4yE&amp;oc=1&amp;hm=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/sally-aged-11-audio-transcript\/\">(Transcript of sound bite)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">However, Sally\u2019s impression of being evacuated was also bound up with images of people being relocated to hotels as if they were going away on holiday, so she packed \u2018some special dresses\u2019 that she thought would be nice to wear at the hotel. Unfortunately, Sally\u2019s family was evacuated to a small hotel with cramped rooms unsuitable for disabled guests, which Sally said was \u2018really hard\u2019 for her dad. Not only had she forgotten to pack her school uniform but she didn\u2019t get to wear her special dresses because it was \u2018too expensive\u2019 to use the hotel restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Sally told us that when her family was moved into temporary accommodation, the family experienced additional distress. In the first hotel, they were placed in a room with a tiny en-suite bathroom which was not accessible for wheelchair users. In the cramped conditions, her dad injured himself whilst trying to wash. The family was then moved into more suitable accommodation but were forced to move again. Coming on top of the shock of the flooding, this had the effect of making the family feel isolated and misunderstood.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_305\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305\" class=\"wp-image-305 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/files\/2018\/10\/The-hard-work-of-recovery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A clay model of a disgruntled person with a skip\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/files\/2018\/10\/The-hard-work-of-recovery-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/files\/2018\/10\/The-hard-work-of-recovery-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/files\/2018\/10\/The-hard-work-of-recovery-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/files\/2018\/10\/The-hard-work-of-recovery-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/files\/2018\/10\/The-hard-work-of-recovery.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: helvetica\">&#8216;The hard work of recovery&#8217; model created by one of the young people from the Children, Young People and Flooding Project<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Sally&#8217;s story reveals that there can be multiple problems associated with evacuation, which are sometimes invisible to friends, teachers, insurers, loss adjusters and emergency planners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Her experience demonstrates the need for better education for householders on what action to take in case of flooding and for policymakers and practitioners to be more inclusive of the needs of communities, including those of children and disabled people.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><u>Key Points<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Evacuation results in poor health and wellbeing<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Shows a child\u2019s perception of evacuation<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Placement in inappropriate temporary accommodation<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Injury sustained by wheelchair user<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Family experiences of multiple displacements<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Challenges of creating a flood resilient accessible family home<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Lack of care in society by others who \u2018don\u2019t get it&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Please reference as: <em>Flooding \u2013 a social impact archive<\/em>, Lancaster University<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Sally&#8217;s story about what happened to her with some\u00a0key learning points at the end&#8230; Background On the evening of 9th February 2014, after days of persistent rain, seven severe flood warnings (the highest category) were put in place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/flood-narratives\/sally-aged-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[9,16,10,17],"class_list":["post-364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-children-young-people","tag-data","tag-disability","tag-evacuation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa0Enl-5S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions\/1770"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/floodarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}