Life of misery in leaking house

Jacqueline Lloyd intended to spend Monday celebrating her 61st birthday, but it rained on her parade.

Instead, she found herself cleaning out her waterlogged, dilapidated house for several hours and wondering where she was going to lay her weary head.

“I am depressed,” she said, looking at several buckets, filled with dirty water, which she was forced to place throughout her small wooden house during the many hours of rainfall Sunday night.

Lloyd, who lives in Villa Road, Brittons Hill...