BBCCitizens in counties Down and Tyrone are counting the prices after their houses have been flooded following hours of heavy rain brought about by way of Hurricane Bert.
About 18 homes in addition to quite a lot of vehicles in Park Street, Dundonald have been broken by way of the flooding on Saturday.
Citizens were ready to go back to their houses to survey the wear, however some have mentioned they’re annoyed on the reaction of NI Water and the Division for Infrastructure (DfI) having raised flooding considerations within the space.
NI Water and DfI were contacted for remark.
Melissa McComb aroused from sleep on Saturday morning to look that the ground of her boulevard had begun to flood.
Mrs McComb and a neighbour contacted the DfI’s flooding incident helpline at about 07:30 GMT. She was once informed an legitimate can be despatched out to the realm.
“Through 9, nobody had come and it was once simply getting worse and worse,” she informed BBC Information NI.
“There’s a manhole simply outdoor my area and the water began to come back up the manhole, and at that level we concept this is not going to be good enough.”
After shifting her automotive to a close-by church automotive park, Mrs McComb left the realm to buy sandbags to offer protection to her belongings.
“By the point we got here again, the water was once at a peak that you just could not get in or out of the home,” she added.
Whilst she had gotten out earlier than the flooding started, Mrs McComb’s husband was once caught within the belongings till 14:00.
Mrs McComb mentioned that whilst somebody from the DfI did come to the scene nevertheless it was once too past due.
“So far as we are mindful they didn’t come till after 9,” she added.
“We really feel that if it had of been right here inside that hour and a part they might have finished one thing that can have stopped no matter surge got here that ended flooding the entire boulevard.”
Citizens of Park Street have raised considerations about flooding within the space for approximately a yr, however Mrs McComb mentioned she has been left and not using a self assurance in the problem being resolved.
“I used to be indignant and roughly bored to death, [it] seems like you will have been elevating those problems and not anything has been finished about it,” she defined.
“I do know there was once a letter issued to native councillors to mention paintings have been performed and I noticed it the day gone by and it was once dated a yr in the past.
“A yr down the road from that letter, there is nonetheless problems that has now led to the entire boulevard… left with nowhere to reside.”
‘I do not know what to do’
Lisburn and Castlereagh councillor Samantha Burns mentioned it’s the first time the realm has skilled floodwater breaching homes.
“We concept it have been solved,” she mentioned.
“There have been manhole problems and blocked pipes however clearly there’s nonetheless problems which can be happening that are supposed to optimistically now get resolved… so we will optimistically get the citizens looked after out and get them again into their houses.”
Mehdi Mozadeh moved into his Park Street area along with his spouse and two babies 3 months in the past.
The flooding has broken his belongings, furnishings or even his youngsters’s faculty uniforms.
“I do not know what I will have to do… [I have] no thought the place I’ll keep,” he mentioned.
On Saturday, an emergency cost scheme was once activated by way of Communities Minister Gordon Lyons.
It approach house owners who’ve suffered “critical inconvenience” from flooding can declare a £1,000 cost via their native council.
However Mr Mozadeh mentioned that he has no longer gained any assist or give a boost to since Saturday’s flooding.
“That is my lifestyles and [this is] so onerous for me.”
Yellow wind alert
A yellow caution for top winds has been issued for Northern Eire till 18:00 on Sunday.
It adopted sturdy winds and heavy rain on Saturday as Hurricane Bert made landfall.
There have been delays to rail services and products, with flooding inflicting some services and products between Belfast and Dublin to be cancelled.
The most powerful winds in Northern Eire on Saturday – 67mph – have been recorded in Ballypatrick, County Antrim.
Portions of Northern Eire recorded greater than part a month’s rainfall over the weekend.
Derrylin in County Fermanagh had 65.2mm of rain between 18:00 GMT on Friday and 06:00 on Sunday.
This is 53% of ordinary rainfall for Northern Eire for the entire month of November.
The common is 122.5mm.
Altnahinch Filters in County Antrim and Murlough in County Down each recorded 58mm of rain – 47% of ordinary rainfall.
Getty PicturesWithin the Republic of Eire, Met Éireann (the Irish Meteorological Carrier) additionally issued a standing yellow wind alert for quite a lot of counties which got here into impact at 08:00 native time on Sunday morning.
In counties Clare, Kerry and Galway this caution will closing till 19:00.
In Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo, the alert is in position till 02:00 on Monday, with County Donegal’s in impact till 08:00.
The carrier has warned of inauspicious travelling prerequisites, in addition to fallen timber and particles.
On Saturday, the carrier issued purple indicators – the best possible stage – for heavy rain in west Cork and west Galway.
In County Donegal there was once main flooding on Bridge Side road in Killybegs the place a clean-up has been happening.
Irish Minister for Endeavor Peter Burke mentioned that he’s looking for “pressing” approval from the federal government to reopen an emergency flooding scheme to assist companies impacted by way of Hurricane Bert.
