Consternation about flooding in a place called Riverstown, you couldnāt make it up.
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Itās like when people in Shannon Banks were complaining about flooding.
Did Tomas never do geography in school.
Send him this
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Or all the fellas in Kildare who bought the houses built on a flood plain
Iāve been to Sars a few times, from what i recall the pitch is well below the level of the road outside
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The Glen lads donāt like it up em at all.
It looks like Christy Dignamās vascular system.
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The Venice of the North.
Sure Corcaigh literally means āswampā.
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He has been advocating for advance flood warning systems and defences for a long time, but was recently castigated by climate change loons for it.
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They didnāt even open the shoreholes here until the place was already flooded
We might need bigger drains in the coming century, petal.
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Today was a once in a generation weather event but unfortunately it looks like itās going to be repeated on Friday.
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Places like Clashmore, Glanmire & Midleton are enclosed by higher ground with streams etc feeding into larger river passages.
They are bound to flood when it rains heavily, always have & always will.
What happened in Midleton was two fold problem wise. Huge rainfall matched to a drainage system unable to get the water away due to level of area and poor planning for all the Business Parks & Housing Estates over the last 3 decades.
In fairness to Carlow Weather chap, he warned that flooding was a definite risk with weather projections last wknd.
Main Street in Midleton definitely hadnāt seen itās sewer system checked beforehand to hold the water it held today.
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A dredging of the rivers every once in a while would help prevent this too
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Dredging destroys the fisheries
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Im sure the hundreds of people that have had their homes and livelihood destoyed are glad the fish are safe
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Theyāre safe in their homes.