
The moment Paul Nuki knew something was wrong was when his teenage son walked over to the window and said, “Dad, there’s water gushing down the road.”
“I thought, yeah right, but within an hour, the whole house had filled up and the sofa was floating across the living room,” says the 59-year-old, who lives in Stoke Newington. “I’d heard about flooding in London before but when you start looking into it, you realise that Thames Water has been doing this all over the place.”