Whaley Bridge dam crisis: What's changed one year on?
Gill Barras, who also lives in the town, does not feel as nervous."The village could have gone - the whole world knew about it. So obviously they're going to make it really strong.Gill Barras said she was given 10 minutes to leave her home on 1 AugustIan Kidd said:"I think everyone contributed in one way or another - whether it was the two ladies making tea and coffee [for evacuated residents] or the people who came in and started doing hot meals.
The crisis came as a shock to the system to Fred Salmon, who runs Whaley Bridge cycling shop The Bike Factory."It showed how vulnerable we were at the time. We'd got a great little business going with repairs and a workshop but the online store was only a small part of it. You might have thought the frightening situation would put prospective buyers off moving to the area but estate agent Lorraine Batty said it actually gave the town a boost."After about a month when things had settled down a little bit with the dam, we did more sales in the latter part of the year than we've ever done previously."I'd been extremely concerned how people would perceive the market very close to the dam but we saw the absolute opposite and yes, it surprised me.
"All the time we had to have another plan. We had to have other crews that nobody actually ever saw that were stood by at two other locations below the dam in case it did burst.Image captionResident Kelly Baker did not believe there was any comparison between the dam evacuation and the ongoing coronavirus situation."This year home is where we have kept our children safe.
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