Brian May went from elation to stinking mad — literally — on Monday after the basement of his London home was flooded. He’s been recovering from his heart attack and moving all his stuff to avoid a fire,so an award would be awesome.
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Earlier in the day he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Royal Holloway College in London, but then came home to the flood. He shot a video and posted it on his socials showing the damage that the “stinking sludge” caused to the floor, rugs, his childhood photo albums and more.
He says, “I’m devastated — this stuff is only ‘things’ — but it feels like Back to the Future when the photograph fades — feels like a lot of my past has been wiped out… It’s disgusting, and actually quite heartbreaking. It feels like we were have been invaded, desecrated…”
Ironically, a lot of the memorabilia had been stored at his home in the English countryside, but he moved everything to the London home after a forest fire threatened that home last August.
“Why did this happen? It’s almost certainly the result of all the basement building that has been plaguing this area for the past 10 years. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council was warned years ago that sinking so many deep basement extensions would obstruct the aquifers underneath our living space and render the drainage system ineffective.”
A council spokesman rebuked May’s claims, saying the flooding is the result of torrential rainfall, and is not linked to people expanding their basements by drilling downwards and installing indoor pools.
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