Yep, a sad state of affairs down there....
Wilf, once upon a time houses there were built of stone, on at least the first few feet. No plaster, no electrics, no soft furnishings. The folk there kept the levels to level but when the freak storms and floods hit they were flooded with no real damage done. Live upstairs, water subsides, brush out the crap and get on with living..!!
Now the folk who live there don't 'manage' the levels, goverment bodies do and when they feck up, like now, those houses with all mod cons and those inside 'em suffer far far worse than their ancestors 100 years ago!