Planning ahead aids rapid response

摘要

While Christmas may have come around again in the blink of an eye for most of us, for many in the UK 2016 was a long year of getting their homes and businesses back in order after the awful floods of December 2015. Local authorities, the Highways Agency and the Environment Agency (EA) have all had their work cut out for them too, with communities devastated by the impact of flood waters and the damage they left behind.