'We’re never safe, we always have to be on our guard.'
Lincolnshire leaders said the county should remain vigilant as they marked 70 years since the 1953 floods, which claimed the lives of 43 people.
However, he said: “We’ve been very fortunate in the past 70 years that we’ve had no repeat of the 1953 event, but we have to remain vigilant, climate change is real and the sea level is rising. “We have a great partnership with the EA and government who recognise the challenge nationally of coastlines and water. Ultimately this will have to be invested in to give us the level of protection we need,” he added.
“Flood defence in this country is unrecognisable from what it was in 1953, we sit today in a much well-informed society where defences are higher and there are better standards,” he said.
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