Experts warn that time is running out to prevent similar devastation caused by last year’s floods as National Flood Resilience Review is delayed
On Boxing Day last year, Colette Jones was warned by neighbours that flood water was pouring across parkland near her house in Bury, Greater Manchester. The river Irwell had burst its banks as torrential rain swept the area. Within an hour, her house and hundreds of others nearby were inundated. Colette and her husband, Graham, had to struggle through water up to chest height to reach safety.
“It was terrifying,” she recalls. “It was also horrible. The water was mixed with sewage. Our house was ruined.”
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Source: Guardian Environment