Rains stop play

ROADS were closed and businesses sent home early after devastating floods hit Rhyl on Sea last Tuesday.
Banks, schools, newspapers and shops were left deserted and immigrant labourers left their work-camps, carrying mattresses on their backs and fled to higher ground to escape the flood-waters that swept all before them.
A complete lack of infrastructure, contingecy planning and inadequate drainage has been blamed for the catastrophe, caused by 45 minutes of light drizzle, which started at 3pm.
Rhyl on Sea's naturally arid climate means that precipitation is very unusual and the town was not built with drainage ditches, gutters or any other means of allowing water to escape into the sea.

Local resident Andy Ruane, found has car swept away and the ground floor of his house flooded in the latest incident.
"To be honest, this is getting a bit daft now," he told Seaside News. "Rhyl on Sea can't just grind to a halt every time it rains. Is this going to happen every year? I've lost everything. Again. The insurance company is going to go nuts. "I had a Porsche 911, which has floated away, eight X-boxes, a 90 inch flatscreen TV, which were all ruined and there was a signed original LS Lowry, which has melted. My life is ruined!" he wailed.
Rhyl on Sea was last year left devastated by a cyclone which wrecked the road network and swept away around one third of the town, most of which is built in dry river beds, or wadis.
Officials later denied that the cyclone had happened and when rebuilding the town, again neglected to add provision for rain water.

Speaking to the Seaside News from the town hall roof, Chris Davies, chief planning officer for the council denied that his department was responsible for the lack of foresight.
"Come on, it's not like you can seriously be blaming us for this," he spluttered, while waving frantically at a passing rescue helicopter. "What? You seriously think we should try and stop letting people build in obvious flood plains and wadis? Surely you can't be serious.
"No, no, no. They key to Rhyl on Sea's success is maximising every bit of land for building development. I mean we can never live up to the glamour of of neighbours in Abu Gele, but we don't want to be seen as some sort of backwater. No, we definately have to keep building."

Commuters were still facing problems in low-lying areas on wednesday morning, with some puddles as deep as 15 inches, slowing down traffic.


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