Alexei, the conspicuously walleyed Belarusian, had gone to surveythescene from an upstairs window and he returned to report that the car park beside the hotel was flooded completely.
Loss adjustors have already visited the church to surveythe shattered stained glass window depicting a nativity scene, a broken 17th Century wooden pulpit, a dented lectern and, most importantly, a smashed Victorian frieze behind the altar.