Residents in fear as Storm Babet a 'calling card' for future flooding

Midleton home-owners are still grappling with huge bills for damage after last October's floods, compounded by a complicated process of drawing down humanitarian aid

Sandbags outside Caroline Leahy's Midleton home, flooded in Storm Babet. Picture: Cian O'Regan

Raindrops give Caroline Leahy the shivers the minute she hears them.

Her chest tightens and she starts to panic. This is because the 38-year-old Cork city legal executive is one of hundreds of householders whose homes in and around Midleton were flooded last October.