Risca Floods 1979

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I remember the floods, I was in the fire service at the time. We had commandeered boats from Tredegar house boating lake in Newport and used them in Risca to carry people to dry land. Four of us were rowing a boat to the north end of the town where there were some new houses built in a dip to make sure everyone was Ok. We passed a woman stood on a bank above the water level, she shouted at us "get off my land", we replied we were checking the houses mentioned above. She replied " serves them right for building there" we couldn't believe her attuite to the plight of others.

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