Written by Freuchie Mill now has a hand held air horn to signal a flood emergency. If you are first to spot the beginning of a flood then bang on the door of No 15 and we’ll get the alarm sounded. You could also use your car horn to signal an emergency situation. It is advisable to respond immediately to the air horn or a car horn sounding in a strange manner.
Get your car out of Freuchie Mill when the alarm goes off and put it up on Freuchie Mill Road or across in the main part of the village. DO NOT park on the bridge area or on the slope up to Freuchie Mill House as this prevents the emergency services from doing their job.
Residents at Green Tree Brae have flood alarms mounted to warn of the rising burn levels. We’re relying on residents at risk warning each other to the rising water level.
We will be looking into automating the alarms and monitoring over the new month or two, including the possibility of SMS (text) messaging, weather data and a webcam image of the area. More details as procedures and systems develop.
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The air horn (or long loud car horn blast) is a really good idea. Lets just hope we never have to hear it.
As for the webcam idea, I would suggest two of them if funds permit – one looking over the main car park and the road in to keep an eye on water flooding in from the chicken farm road as happened a few weeks ago and one watching the culvert inflow to check on river levels.
Spread the word in the flats that using the car horns and rattling my letterbox to get the air horn sounded are the best ways to warn everyone and what these signals mean. Thanks.
We’ll see how the budget pads out over the coming weeks as the system comes together. Who knows what may be possible!