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Storm Bert: forgotten Welsh towns drown in neglect
As waters rise and defences fail, working-class communities abandoned by Westminster face nature’s fury while in a bitterly ironic turn, the descendants of miners pay the price for the legacy fossil fuels, writes GUTO DAVIES
SUBMERGED: Firefighters pump water from Sion Street by the River Taff, in Pontypridd, November 24
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ON the morning of Sunday November 24 this year, the village in which I live, Trehafod, was under siege from a rising tide of water.
Following the worst of Storm Bert through the night, the only roads into Trehafod from north and south, along with the railway line, were all closed due to flooding.
In the meantime, the river Rhondda to the west was rising at an alarming rate, while to the east, culverts were gushing fiercely down the rocky mountainside. The village felt like a perilous place to be, with no escape route.
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