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THE COST OF repairing flood damage in towns across Cork will be more than €1million, according to local authorities.
Cork County Council has put the estimated bill for the clean-up at €1.4million. However, it’s understood this is just an initial figure and could be subject to change.
A spokesperson for the council told TheJournal.ie that the initial cleaning operation is now complete, but the long-term damage to infrastructure is still being assessed.
“It is not possible to put a timescale on those repairs at present,” the spokesperson said.
Council workers have pumped out homes which were filled with water, and cleaned up the worst of the damage. The local authority has made arrangements to take waste and damaged goods – such as furniture and electrical items – from householders whose homes were flooded.
Flood victims can apply for emergency cash grants of up to €1000 from the Irish Red Cross to buy food, clothes and other essentials. A Red Cross spokesperson said this morning that most homes in the town of Clonakilty had suffered significant water damage.
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Climate change. Any bad weather is a direct result of global warming / climate change
@Christopher Byrne: Was It global warming that caused the flooding over a century ago or was it just a freak storm?
@Slippy ❤️: sarcasm mate…sarcasam. I live in Perth and we’ve has the coldest winter in the 6+ years I’ve lived here but Ive no doubt it will be reported as the hottest on record
@Christopher Byrne: higher average global temperatures result in more moisture in the atmosphere which makes storm systems powerful. So yes the strength of this storm was added today b the fact that GLOBAL temperatures are rising. Weather is a global system, it doesn’t care if it’s been cold in Australia lately. Some models suggest that Europe might actually get colder over the coming decades as a result of GLOBAL average temperatures rising if it continues.
@M: Yes, climate models. Very reliable they’ve proven to be….We can’t predict weather reliably 2 weeks in advance but we’re supposed to believe in these models forecasting 30 years down the track as gospel. Despite the fact most if not all of them have failed to accurately predict the future
@Christopher Byrne:
I think you’ve been living in the colonies for too long….mate.
@Tweed Cap: wow I don’t know how to even begin talking to you when you say something as clueless as that . climate is not the same thing as weather. Are you saying that releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will not cause global temperatures to rise? …Why not?
@Christopher Byrne: don’t stray too far from home you’ll fall off the edge of the earth
@Christopher Byrne: I love listening to people who have read some articles and now know it all. Just proves studying and practicing science is a waste of time, we just need an opion
@Christopher Byrne: isn’t winter 2 months away yet? Also weren’t there record highs recorded in summer in parts of Oz? Also, true or false, don’t parts of Oz have a monsoon season and isn’t this just an extreme version of that?
@Dave O Keeffe: No, on all counts
@Boganity: I think you’ll find you’re incorrect on all points. Australian winter is our summer months. They had record temperatures over Christmas, and there is indeed a monsoon season in parts of Australia.
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