After a week in which hundreds of properties were ruined, will scenes like these become more common?
"An exceptional natural event" is how Stormont's Department for Infrastructure described flooding in Downpatrick this week.
Resistance covers actions like installing floodgates. Resilience is "bounce-back-ability" - how easy your property is to clean and dry out. But resistance and resilience apply for councils and government departments too - they can supply sandbag banks in high-risk areas and organise their distribution in an emergency.So is flooding becoming more frequent?last month was the wettest month ever
Northern Ireland is one of the least wooded parts of Europe, says the Woodland Trust - trees are nature's way of creating flood barriers and reducing soil erosion.People may point to farming and its impact on our environment. It found clear signals of climate change - an increase in both rainfall and rainfall intensity, and an average temperature rise in Ireland of 0.88C for every degree of warming on a global scale.
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