Having said that, a lot of the houses in the centre are quite old. In any case, cold dirty water flooding your ground floor puts the odd short-lived power cut in perspective.
When people are talking about flooding in Kent, Yalding is always top of the list. Cheap housing, floodplain, wet. I agree that you can blame the residents, but it seems strange to me that people are allowed to build there (presumably at a profit to the developers), but that other taxpayers and...