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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