Storm Claudia: how do we stay safe in the future?

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Named storms are becoming more and more frequent, and Storm Claudia has shown the damage it can do to businesses and homes. We’re asking people in Newport for their thoughts on what needs to be done to keep us safe in the future.

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00:00I actually saw on the TV, obviously Monmouth was shocking. I don't think they'd ever had

00:07weather like that before to flood that amount.

00:10I see the storms in Monmouth as well. Monmouth as well, yeah, it was bad, wasn't it? So, yes.

00:15I do sympathize with these people, yes. On the way you could actually, no.

00:20Communities across Wales were swept by storms earlier this month.

00:23Heavy rain and flooding meant cars were stranded, businesses impacted and houses being vacated.

00:28People were forced to get sandbags, police closed roads and emergency services tended

00:33to people who felt the full force from Storm Claudia.

00:37Not everyone was directly affected, particularly those in higher areas, but everyone saw the levels of rain

00:42and were hit even just by things like heavy traffic and travel disruptions.

00:47Well, I think they are happening more frequently. I think you see weather now in Spain and places like this

00:52where there are torrential floods. So I think worldwide the weather is changing, definitely.

00:57A little, because where I live, I've got a drive that runs at the back and it's on a slope and it comes down a lane.

01:09So if it's heavy, heavy, then there's only a small drain at the end for it to go through.

01:15So sometimes if that gets clogged up, then the rain does sort of, you know, come around and interfere.

01:24Um, yeah, I don't think we have too many flood measures in place. I think we could do definitely more around the sea over there.

01:31I actually think more could be done to counteract it. Um, other than that, not too concerned at the moment.

01:39I'm sure in 10, 20 years it'll get even worse.

01:42The concern here lies with whether storms like Claudia will become the norm.

01:46We saw over the last few years with storm Dennis, which caused millions of pounds of damage and storm Burt,

01:51which left a number of businesses and organisations destroyed by the rain.

01:55People seem to think it has gotten worse and people all seem to know why it's happening.

02:00I think it's to do with climate warming, isn't it? Yeah, it's quite frightening actually, because they do tend,

02:06or they seem to be more fierce and, and, um, torrential, you know, and, uh, than they used to be.

02:13And they come on all of a sudden, you know, it's just a real down, downpour, you know?

02:18So I agree there. Yeah. I think it's, they, they, um, they, and they're more often as well. Yeah, I do.

02:24I think it's to do with the global warming. Yeah.

02:27Yeah.

02:28And so for a long time, but yeah, this, this, um, do with, um, what's it do with the storms?

02:33Do the global warming or something like that? Storms come more costly from the Caribbean in America to, you know, Britain, like, yeah.

02:42First of all, it's climate change. Nothing's being done.

02:45Still burning fuel, still cutting down trees, cattle, everything. Um, nothing's being done to prevent it.

02:54Yeah. Not really. Not to a massive standby.

02:57What do you.

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