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'Anxiety and disbelief': Didsbury community on the night they were evacuated amid Storm Christoph
direct to your inboxIt was around 11.30pm when two police officers knocked on Thomas Arthur's door asking him to leave his Northenden home.The River Mersey, at its highest level on record, was dangerously close to bursting its banks following 24 hours of torrential rainfall. The river came just 2cm away from breaching its banks as water flowed into flood basins and residents watched on nervously.
