Binion Flooding

“This particular field here is 13 acres, every inch of this field here was under water, and the water continued up towards to Clonmany village, so god knows how many acres of land was under water, on both sides of the road, and the water didn't subside, that was on the Tuesday night it got covered and it didn't subside until the Thursday night.”

“I would say that it was probably maybe between 2 1/2 to 3 feet in depth. You wouldn't take a chance of walking in because of the force of the water flowing.”

“There were dead animals lying all over this field. They weren't mine, they were sheep that had come down the river ... the river had come up ... probably a good six, eight foot for the river to come out into this field, so that shows you the depth and the force, that it actually washed animals out into the middle of the field. So that was the force.”

Mamie Grant (9:10)

Older People Flooding Recollections

“... the older people ... they would have experience of it .. they have a respect for ... they remember things happening like that before ... this happens from time to time ...”

Margaret Farren (26:08)

Devlin Family Flooding Recollections

“When I was a kid in the late 50's, I have a photograph of in the house of my grandfather and my father down in our farmyard, down below, you where there today, holding a big metal gate and the big boulders and stones were on the farmyard, complete ground, old house was full ... my granny and grandad were up a big chestnut tree beside the pig houses, the pigs were drowned in the pig houses”

“I have photos of my grandma and grandfather in the Derry journal, 1950 something in that flood”

“This one (2017 flood) would have rated as bad ... 50's was in the summer time too ... like it was a cloud burst up there ... Buncrana and Carndonagh was, a heatwave in it ... it was a cloudburst up here in the mountains that caused that ... it was localised.. the night of the (2017) flood here, Moville was grand, no flooding there ... Buncrana and here got some washing ...”

Mickey Devlin (26:50)

Glenevin Devastation & Noise

“Clonmany was closed off ... two metres of water between the bridge and Clonmany (village) ...”

“... you could hear the boulders going down past there (Glenevin) ... you knew that there was utter devastation happening up here (Glenevin) ..”

“it's a miracle that nobody drowned..”

Mickey Devlin (2:21)

Clonmany Village Flooding

“What's going on? The Cross (Clonmany Village) is flooded. The Community Centre is flooded. Half the bridge has been washed away in the Cross (Clonmany Village) ... there were tractors and trailer ferrying people over the bridge”

Mamie Grant (3:00)

Clonmany Community Centre Flooding

“The force of the water was pushing him backwards .. When he went outside ... The water was gushing from this end, which is the river. It was flowing ferociously down that way but then it was also coming down from the road”

Kathleen Coady (4:10)

Bernie Kearney's House Landslide

“... an unmerciful bang ... and the next thing I looked and my back kitchen wall was coming in towards me ... completely blackout .. went to the front door to get out ... keys were in the rubble ... made my way to my bedroom, front bedroom ... jumped out the window there .. had visions of the house tumbling down on top of me ...”

“... standing out in the front lawn, I'd say for about maybe a good 4 or 5 minutes before I could get in contact with anybody ... when they came they had to lift me out over the hedge because my drive was completely covered in mud ... and there was a lot of rocks”

“I thought I imagined that the wall had come in until the next day ... didn't realize that things were so bad ..”

“I'd say only for the beam around the house that the roof would have come in .. so that probably saved my life that night”

“The mud was right up to the spoutings at the back ... This is the bedroom where the rock came in, and it pushed my bed right over to the dressing table here ..”

“The rock that came down from the mountain it pushed my car in through the wall into my kitchen. So my car was half in the kitchen, half out”

“This rock here came into my kitchen; it's a very big rock. This is the one here that came into my bedroom . They were too big to be taken away ...”

Bernie Kearney (5:53)

Unearthly Noise in Clonmany Village

“The big bridge in Clonmany was pretty much, just wiped away, the whole far side of it .. speaking to friends of mine who lived in Riverside Park and they were telling me about the noise, everybody would talk about, it was the noise of it...a friend of mine that lives right on it .. he was terrified by the noise, he never heard anything like it, unearthly ... ”

Margaret Farren (13:48)

Riverside Park Flooding

“For us it was very, very quick, everything happened very fast ... Ballyhallan River ... water seems to have broken the banks further up ... came through neighbours gardens ... the water had come and come quite quick ”

“... our house ended up like a little island itself, in this gushing river ... hip level in our garden ... it destroyed our house ... such a panic that night, I know that it came in so fast, that you had no time to save anything”

Bébhinn Coady (15:13)

Cloontagh River Flooding, Noise & Boulders

“... the father thought that it was thunder that he was hearing and realized that it was huge boulders being pushed down the river, just right alongside his house and the whole area flooded”

Margaret Farren (17:24)

Clonmany Community Centre Devastation & Destruction

“So, arrived down the next morning, and oh my god, the mess, never forget it because the sewer is here, and the water had mixed ... there was just a black scum over. The water had gone .. because it just comes in and disappears and it's so fast ”

“When we came in the next day, loads of people locally came in, brushes and stuff. It destroyed the centre, completely destroyed it and we had to rip up the floor.”

“We had to get rid of so much stuff, all our computers, 20 odd computers”

Kathleen Cody (20:00)

Storm Information - Inishowen Rivers Trust

“... a lot of factors that converged to make that night of the 22nd of August particularly destructive ... a tropical storm that has arisen in Eastern United States .. about a week previously and it was named Gert ... extremely heavy rainfall ... very little wind ... 77mm of rain fell just in 8 hours”

Trish Murphy (34:15)