Global Warming .Private Driver in flood devastated Ireland

I have been in the chauffeurdrive/Tour Operator business now for a good number of years and i have never seen anything like the disastrous weather we have been experiencing here in Ireland over the past few days. There are regions in the south and west and parts of the midlands that are destroyed by the flood waters as torrential rain of unprecedented levels caused rivers to burst their banks and new rivers to appear where there were never any rivers before. Hundreds of millions of damage has been done and thousands of homes destroyed by the waters and for so many people who were already reeling from the recession this was the last thing they needed. How often tragedy strikes at Christmas time. I wrote a few days ago in a previous blog about the four young girls, all students in University college Galway, who were killed in a car accident when they ran head-on into a truck in driving rain the other night. A fifth girl is still in a critical condition in hospital. This was the first major tragedy of this particular bad spell of weather and amazingly no other life has been lost to date. God help those families and your prayers for them at this time would be much appreciated. There will be no happy Christmas for hundreds of other families now due to this flooding and it will surely mean the end for many businesses who will never recover. People in areas where floods have occurred in recent years are the worst off as, due to the huge increases in their insurance premiums because of previous claims, they now have no insurance. The city of Cork was the worst hit as the river Lee burst its banks and engulfed the town centre along with many other areas of the city. More than half the people in the city have no water supply due to contamination and electricity is also gone in many areas. I am fortunate as the area i live in has not been badly affected and my own house is on an elevated site but my county is one of the worst hit areas. We do not have a river close by and this has also saved us. We have plenty of flooded fields and our journeys have been curtailed but outside of that we have been blessed. These floods are new to us and it has been a long time since anything like this has happened in Ireland. Global warming has to be a major factor in this and there is no doubt that our climate has changed in recent years. When will we learn our lesson? I think that will happen long after many more major catastrophic events, and many a lot worse than we are experiencing here right now. We were given a beautiful world to enjoy ....and to mind. We are prepared to do the first bit....to enjoy....but to mind? Some do.....lets try a little harder. Maybe the little bit we do ourselves will make a difference.
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