The Recovery from the Flood of 2011
January 22nd 2011 Thursday 13 January 2011 – the day of reckoning had arrived. The alarm in my mobile phone woke me at the appointed hour of 04:00 in the morning, the time when the floodwaters would be at their highest level. If the 1974 flood experience was repeated, then water could isolate me for days. I listened for unexpected sounds from outside, but all was silent except for alarms that had continued thr
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