Quote Originally Posted by RickyR View Post
It's a sad situation, and I feel for all those families affected. Unfortunately the government really is behind the curve on this, too much money being milked off the people instead of into infrastructure and flood defences etc.
Ricky, our family and friends do not blame the govt or local authorities. This was a completely 'rogue' event.
Everyone we have contact to have all praised the local authorities for a well organised effort that helped many but was never going to be able to do much more than counter the very worst of this freak event.

It's just too easy to place blame here.

Such things can and do happen anywhere in the world (even here in UK) , and any official govt plan can be jumped upon on as being inadequate by those who are ill-informed and not impacted.