Cork County Council said one month’s worth of rain fell in 24 hours.
Members of the Irish Defence Forces have been deployed to a town in the south of Ireland to deal with extensive flooding due to Storm Babet.
Mr Quaide told the PA news agency: “My wife and I were bringing our daughter home from CUH today and we got stranded for several hours with many other local residents on the outskirts of town as both roads home were off limits. We tried a couple of perilous detours and had to turn back. The N71 is closed at Rosscarbery and at Innishannon with reports of flooding at the Halfway roundabout, while the R610 in Carrigaline was described as “virtually impassable”.
Mr Whelton, an agriculture worker, said the Skibbereen Fire Brigade pumped water from the area for “five or six hours” on Tuesday but said it remained underwater on Wednesday afternoon. Mr Whelton added that in one of his cousin’s houses, the water was “coming in the back door and going straight out the front door”.“This is on top of already saturated lands and high river levels,” he said.“I am especially conscious of the advanced preparations that were undertaken by Cork County Council in mitigating the effects of this event and how, despite every effort, homes, businesses and road users have been impacted.
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