"I live in the town, in the flats near the Quay side. There's a car park/garage next to the house and water gets in so I have a sandbag and a waterboard to protect my home. With easterly winds, high tides and rain, the tide comes up the double slip, up Browne Street (which is near my home), up and along the Main Street, down by Supervalu and the Community Centre and meets up with itself."

"I remember in the '50s the floods came up Brown Street to the Post Office – you could actually come up that street on a boat there was so much water. But I think now there are more and better weather forecasts and warnings so people can prepare earlier. There seems to be a greater frequency of high-tides but I'm not sure if this is correct? The fishermen are great – they always know what the tides are doing and they are almost always right."