Big Mop-Up After Floods

Big Mop-Up After Floods

16 Jul 1973

BIG MOP-UP AFTER FLOODS HIT CITY AREAS

ST. SWITHLN’S DAY brought the floods yesterday and left many families suffering the after effects of torrential rain.

Mopping-up operations still continued this morning following flooding in Dublin—the worst hit area, in Baldonnel area alone nearly an inch of rain fell. At Mount Argus, the Poddle burst its banks, flooding two houses in Loder Park. Mr. William Walton, who lives there with his wife and four children, blamed the flooding on the Corporation because they have not cleaned the river.

A widow and her two children had rheir house, next door to Mr. Walton, also flooded. Mrs, Eileen Kavanagh claimed her house is often flooded.

ROAD FLOODED

Sheriff Street area ot Dublin was also flooded and people in St. Laurence OToole tlats could not cross the road because ol three to’ four feet ot water.

In Benburb St.. Mr. lohn Smith and bis wile wer» forced to remove their two children from their beds after water came through the roof of their single apartment home. -\

Dublin Fire Brigade was called to 20 cases of flooding and a fireman todav said: ” We were kept going the whole night long wi’h these.” Many sporting fixtures were cancelled or badly affected by the weather. Attendance at the V&I Doonican competition at Woodbrook Golf Club was greatly reduced. Other parts of tlie country were not as badly hit as Dublin and some spots avoided the deluge altogether. “* The weather is still unsettled and outbreaks will occur again but not as bad as yesterday, ” said a Meteoroloelcal Office spokesman coda;. A_.A. WARNING An A_^A. spokesman warned motorists to took out tor fallen branches In country areas At Rosslare Harbour Meteorological Station, one quarter of an inch was recorded in the space of an aour. The rain accompanied by a north-easterly gale, caused die postponement of many sporting fixtures in South Wexford.

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