There has been a storm named Babet that brought lots of rain to the island of Ireland. This heavy rain has caused serious flooding in a place called County Cork. A lot of buildings have been damaged because of this.
The town of Midleton in eastern Cork has been greatly impacted.
The Irish army and the Civil Defence worked together with firefighters to rescue and move people from homes and businesses that were flooded.
The weather forecast in Northern Ireland is predicting heavy rain until tomorrow morning.
The UK Met Office said that the heavy rain could make driving hard and there is a small chance that houses and businesses could get flooded.
It rained a lot in Killowen in County Down for a whole day. It was more rain than what usually falls in half a month.
The weather station measured 57. 6mm of rain from Wednesday morning to Thursday morning.
It rained a lot in a short time on Wednesday evening.
In Midleton, a town in County Cork, the streets in the town centre were flooded on Wednesday because of heavy rainfall.
A little before 7:00 pm on Wednesday, Cork County Council said that Midleton had lots of flooding. Over 100 properties were affected and it was difficult to move around there.
It said it had set up a place for emergency services to work together at Midleton fire station and a place for people to rest at Midleton Community Centre.
‘People were saved using boats’
In simple words: On Thursday morning, County Cork’s mayor, Frank O’Flynn, told BBC News NI that he thinks around 150 buildings may have been harmed by flooding.
He said he saw a distance of “up to four feet” (1. 2m) on Midleton’s Main Street.
“He said that it rained about 94 milliliters in a day. ”
There were some people who had to use boats and canoes. Some people had to be saved by being taken in boats.
Mr O’Flynn said that two schools in the town were impacted, and that the children and young individuals were transported to safety on army vehicles.
The mayor remembered that Midleton had been harmed by floods in 2009 and 2015, but he said, “This was the worst of them all. ”
“He requested that the government provide urgent money for the homes and businesses that have been harmed, as well as a plan to prevent future flooding,” he stated.
His plan would involve the building of walls to keep floodwater out and protect the town of Midleton.
Cork County Council posted on Twitter that they know about flooding in other nearby towns and villages such as Carrigaline, Castletownbere, Ringaskiddy, Whitegate, Rathcormac, Glandore, Halfwa, and Raffeen.
RTÉ, the Irish public service broadcaster, said that there were also reports of flooding in the areas of Killeagh and Youghal in County Cork.
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