Article 3: Flood-hit Cornwall residents prepare for clean-up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-11782775

Summary

The residents of Cornwall are flabbergasted by a big mud flood on Tuesday into Wednesday. A massive clean-up operation is under way in Cornwall after severe flooding resulted in more than 100 homes being evacuated. They don't know anything about the total damage and how much the clean-up operation would cost the local authority yet. The coucil expect to have a better idea of the costs, later this day. The county's transport network is disrupted, schools are closed, and a 700-year-old bridge over the river in Lostwithiel is currently shut for the assesment of damage. Nevertheless there were no reports of serious injuries. The other good news is that now the flood waters are receding in Cornwall and now the clean-up operation will start as soon as possible.

Response

People get overwhelmed in Cornwall if suddenly there is a mud flood, because it's not the usual thing of happening for those residents. Because of this exception, the local authority is not prepared to deal with this problem immidiately. I think every authority has to be prepared for every problem or happening, just in case it's necessarily. If something will happen like a flood, the cleaning operations are able to start with the cleaning process immidiately.