‘The anxiety never disappears’: Monmouth businesses recover from severe flooding

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Source: theguardian.com
‘The anxiety never disappears’: Monmouth businesses recover from severe flooding

Restaurants, bars and shops are happy to be back after Storm Claudia – but there are fears for the future

“It was heart-wrenching,” says Andrea Sholl, recalling the Friday night last month when flood waters started rising inside Bar 125, the restaurant she and her husband, Martin, own in the Welsh border town of Monmouth.

The Sholls and a couple of colleagues were still clearing up after a busy evening serving diners when the building started to fill with water at about 1am.

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