Communites affected by the impacts of climate change are finding their situation impossible- many are still living in temporary accommodation and or caravans outside their homes some 10 monthes after flooding initially occurred.

Diaries describe flooding misery

(Lancaster University)

Many are still living in caravans and temporary accommodation. About 2,000 people are still living in temporary accommodation and 800 families in caravans across the Hull area.

Studies to focus on the long-term impact of flooding on health, social networks and economic wellbeing, these because we do NOT know long term effects?.

Children still in stress months after floods(Lisa Bachelor 2007)

Child psychologists are treating children in Hull suffering from post-flooding traumatic stress, phobias and depression, more than six months after the floods that swamped the city.

The children include those forced to move into 1,400 caravans after their homes were devastated. Schools in the area were especially badly hit, with only eight out of 99 unaffected. 'Children are feeling the loss of their school playing fields and their gardens,' said Cliff Weston, consultant psychologist with the Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS trust. 'If they had pets, a number of those died in the floods. It's all these little things that add up.'

Children with behavioural difficulties have had these made much more unmanageable by being stuck in caravans, said Weston, while some teenagers whose coursework was washed away are suffering from depression after seeing their grades drop. 'There are others who fear this will happen to them again after seeing the media coverage of the Bangladesh floods last month,' she said.