Cork Flooded
Cork is the city where I lived from the age of ten to twenty-six. It has a distressing habit of getting flooded about once every four to five years. The primary reason for this is that the city was built on a marsh, and most of the main streets in the city centre were once river channels. Thus an especially high-tide and heavy-rainfall are enough to turn those reclaimed streets back into river channels again.
The most recent flood – in October 2004 – was the most spectacular. While the effects only lasted 24 hours (as soon as the tide went down, the water drained off), it flooded the entire city centre, including Patrick St., the city’s main shopping street, which isn’t usually affected by these things.
The Evening Echo got a great photo of it, and they put it online. I kept a copy of it for posterity.
