Mark Davies

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"We were sitting in a Barber across the street, which is a little higher, and we watched as our businesses go. "

Chris Harrison , the Dale End Cafe runs in Coalbrookdale, a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. Last weekend was particularly hard, as he celebrates would have been the second birthday of his company.

But local companies have been caused to the left counting the cost of the booth against the background of rising of water, by storm Dennis.

Chris told me that it was like watching a "sinking ship", But that The Local community rallied around him.

Volunteers came to 6 o'clock in the morning on Sunday to help sweep them out of the mud, with a 70-Year -old customer offers to help his van.

Chris Harrison has been running the Dale End Cafe in Coalbrookdale for the past two years with his wife

"All mucking in, cleaning The Shop and ensure that everyone was safe. But it was all undone 24 hours later," Chris says.

was flooded The Cafe twice in less than Two Days . First, when a nearby stream burst, and again when the River Severn reached on Tuesday.

He says that thousands of pounds have been caused in the value of the damage, and that everything was to be replaced in The Cafe must.

"you just see the food that you have purchased floating around your Café," he says.

Dale End Cafe

was flooded twice in less than Two Days , It is a familiar story to business owners, Mark Davies . He's running Darwin ' s Townhouse bed and breakfast in Shrewsbury , on the banks of the River Severn .

"I was away for a business meeting, when the flow began again, and I got back to complete devastation," he says.

Mark says that the damage has taken two rooms out of the action in The Basement of the "main house", a 18Th Century property.

"All of our dry goods such as coffee and tea, cleaning the equipment, and even my maintenance tools are all under water. "

Eight room, sitting on the back of the building were completely house cut off from the main, when The River reached.

'Devastating for the companies'

local companies are looking for before the weekend nervous.

- insurance-analysts at PwC have estimated that damage caused by storm, Dennis storm and Ciara in February, could cost up to £425.

to say But some entrepreneurs, there was little support.

Mark says that his business was covered for flood insurance up to 5. February.

If it is expired, he says, he was visited by an insurance broker who told him that no commercial insurer would cover the property. His premium is now around £3,500 per Year and does not include flood cover.

He says: "It is devastating for companies, if they are taking such a massive hit without insurance. If you lose a lot of on bearing, It Comes directly from your bottom line and kill business. "

Chris Harrison says that, because his cafe was flooded, so many occasions, only a company insurance protection. It was so expensive, that the small companies could not afford.

Despite the danger, Chris says that he is ready to enter the Café.

"We have a community cafe, and as we have seen, so much support from everyone. We will be back. "

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Source of news: bbc.com