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WATCH: Christine Jardine’s office flooding….

By | Mon 24th June 2019 - 7:49 pm

Flash floods hit Edinburgh this afternoon, and Christine Jardine paid the price of having a constituency office at the bottom of a hill on one of the busiest roads in Scotland.

That video now seems to have ended up on most outlets in Scotland and, once the waters had receded, Christine talked to the BBC, Forth, The Evening News, Heart FM and The Sun among other media outlets.

Her main message was to encourage people to look out for elderly neighbours.

The office sofa bed was sacrificed to stem the tide.

Part of the problem was that every time someone drove past the office, it made things worse:

Thankfully the extent of the damage was just a few damaged carpet tiles.

Not far away, a man was stranded on top of his car…

 

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