Milngavie Road yesterday evening looked like something out of a disaster movie

Police cars, fire engines, sandbags and water tankers were all out in force along the Bearsden street.

Families trudged through the knee-high water, carrying what belongings they could carry, their homes ruined.

One resident home was severely flooded in the foundations, had some of his university work lost in the flood. He said: “It’s been a very stressful day."

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Colin Thomson who is a landlord of one of the properties claimed that it had taken as much as 4 hours to turn the water off.

“It’s awful, the garage is flooded up to the windows” he said.

“The foundations full of water and coming out of the floorboards.

“I’d like to know why it took so long.

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“The burst started at 12pm and the only stated to close it off at 4 - why wasn’t it shut immediately? why did it take 4 hours to make a decision to close the valve?

“I think they just didn’t want to shut down the water supply to the rest of Glasgow.”

Other residents on the street got luckier than others.

Kate Low, 72, lives across the road from the worst affected homes. Her garden wall managed to keep the water away from the property, but she’s devastated for her neighbours.

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“I’ve not been affected as much as other people, so I really don’t want to complain at all,” she said.

“I’m so lucky in comparison to everyone else, it’s horrible.

“It’s terrible, it’s an absolute tragedy for them. We all don’t have running water, but we’ll get some eventually - small mercies.

“The place has been flooded before, and you always hear lightening doesn’t strike twice - but it has, this is the third time it’s happened.”

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While some properties are slowly draining the water, which covers many of the gardens, crews from Scottish Water are still there.

Crews are busy cutting the branches from a tree which sits on top of the leak, making it safe to chop down if needs be.

Some residents have criticised Scottish Water's response.

John McCann said: "Sticking a wee caravan on the street where a burst main is does nothing for the huge chunk of Glasgow that can't flush their toilets nor, by this time, even buy a bottle of water in their local shop."