Irish Weather

I can sum up Irish weather with one word, WET! Typical Irish weather is rain, rain and more rain. Ireland is now nearly worse than what it ever was before. Over the last 5months we have received the worst flooding in 80yrs!! County Tipperary, where I'm from, and other areas around the south of Ireland are worst effected. Towns are flooded with rivers bursting there banks. Like my brother told me there was up to 5feet of water flowing through the streets and shops. Fields are converted into rivers as they disappear under the few feet of water. People like my brother, who is a farmer, are badly effected as there is serious damage done to land and crops. Floods have done widespread damage to hay and silage which is needed to feed the animals.
The flooding has also caused destruction to homes and people are becoming isolated in their homes. This isolation is caused by villages being marooned off. It is just awful. It is time the government started investing more money in infrastructure to deal with these disastrous weather conditions. For example they should invest in large artificial lakes that can store the floods of water from the storms. I know the new elected Chairman of OPW, Office of Public Works. She told me how in 2008 OPW only spent 82% of its flood relief budget. As a result the government intends to cut this budget!! They have no intention of investing in any flood prevention infrastructure. They can't even sort the economic crisis i really doubt they will be able to sort the environmental crisis. Once again it will be the people who will have to come together to try and pay for the damage that will be done.