Our regular writer Jen Dodds has written an excellent blog for the Guardian about how her local community in Mytholmroyd near Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire are coping following the recent floods.
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Extract:
I cheer internally each time I find out that another business has reopened, which takes the sting off the general bad news, but only just. We have a barber again (but no hairdressers; some have temporarily merged and one was forced to move away) and a cafe (but a whole row of businesses is still closed).
The schools and nurseries that were affected have made alternative arrangements, but the community centre, once a hive of activity, was completely gutted, down to its very last sodden floorboard.
Every day, too, we hear more horror stories. People are finally being allowed to return to their stinking, flooded properties that their holidaying insurers insisted on seeing for themselves. They’re desperate for help, but many of the hordes of volunteer helpers, including me, have had to go back to work and can only watch in dismay until the weekend.
Read the full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/05/life-slowly-returning-to-our-flooded-village-desperate-for-help-mytholmroyd-yorkshire
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pennybsl
January 6, 2016
Wrote this in the Guardian’s comments page below Jen’s article:
Jen Dodds has eloquently conveyed the morale of residents, flooded and non-flooded, dealing with the repercussions of mid-winter floods.
As a Deaf reader, I fear for others like myself, especially with additional disabilities, how we would have coped in flooding and weather extremes; the biggest loss and risk for us would be the loss of ready communication and information that hearing people take for granted, as they would shout / call out to each other.
Lack of clear information in times of crisis puts people and children at higher risk.
Agree about investment towards better waterproofing and ‘flood-proofing’ the contents, the same should go towards an effective communicative framework so that everyone could be alerted, informed and saved on time.