"It was heart-wrenching, says Andrea Sholl, recalling the Friday night last month when flood waters started rising inside Bar 125, the restaurant she and her husband, Martin, own in the Welsh border town of Monmouth. The Sholls and a couple of colleagues were still clearing up after a busy evening serving diners when the building started to fill with water at about 1am."
"They were able to carry some furniture upstairs to protect it, but lost all of their appliances including dishwashers and freezers, as well as fridges full of thousands of pounds' worth of food. It was like a huge fountain coming up through the drains. It went through the cellar, then through into the kitchen, then the higher kitchen, and then before we knew it, in the lower dining room it was up to about here, Andrea Sholl says, pointing to the windowsill."
Andrea Sholl and colleagues were clearing up Bar 125 when floodwaters rose at about 1am, forcing them to move furniture upstairs but destroying appliances, freezers and fridges of food. Bar 125, next to the River Monnow, had only been open eight days when Storm Claudia broke the river’s banks. The flood sent water through Monmouth town centre, causing the worst inundation in decades. Nearly 200 homes and about 120 businesses flooded, and nearby Skenfrith flooded for the fourth time in five years. Streets and premises were left covered in mud and debris. The majority of town centre businesses are independents, and the timing threatened crucial Christmas income.
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