Business owners in Midleton, Co Cork say they are 'devastated' by yesterday's flash flooding that has caused extensive damage.
They say people in the town are "genuinely very angry" as the flooding was much worse than in December, 2015, when another major flood occurred."I can’t find the words to describe it. We were standing inside in the café watching what looked like a waterfall coming in over the floodgate. There was absolutely nothing we could do to stop it.
"We have no flood insurance. Everyone is going to help today, friends, family, neighbours, customers are all in helping. The businesses are all getting together."We are in business 20 years and we’ve never experienced anything like this before. Our shop is completely destroyed, all our samples, we got no time to save or salvage anything. It’s just devastating. We are trying to sift through everything to see, I don’t even know where to go from here and what we can do.
"The road is wide open, no council, no guards to shut it down. We can’t get skips in, we barely have room to park the vans that we need to get here to try mediate what’s after happening She said that she had at least €10,000 worth of stock, not to mention the damage done to the electrics.
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