Floods in Cork

The weather in Cork has been pretty bad for the last few weeks, there's been a lot of rain and it's also been very windy in the last few days. The result is that some of the city streets have been flooded today. The sun is out now and that makes a big difference and somehow it doesn't seem so bad - unless of course your house or business are flooded. As you can see from these images the water is causing a lot of problems for some people. The army are now helping to evacuate people who are trapped because their houses are flooded. I heard on the radio that water was released from the Inniscarra dam and I can only imagine that this must have added to all the rain water that fell to cause the floods.

The western part of the city seems to be the worst affected area. The Mardyke area is badly flooded, so too is the cricket pitch and Fitzgerald's Park. Further on down the river towards the city the quay wall broke near the hospital and that caused floods on the ground floor of the hospital. Grand Parade was also affected, but when I saw it the council workers were getting it back to normal. There's some amount of work to be done I'm sure, good luck to them is all I can say.