Some of you might have been watching BBC Reporting Scotland last Friday night when details of how Storm Eowyn affected different parts of Scotland including film reports were reported.
Included was Port Ellen on Islay where Storm Eowyn pushed the sea water in Port Ellen Bay onto Frederick Crescent and flooded properties on Frederick Crescent.
This had never happened before during previous storms.
Two separate residents on Frederick Crescent posted on a Facebook site that they had contacted Argyll and Bute Council to ask them to hand out sandbags to try to protect the properties in Frederick Crescent.
Argyll and Bute Council refused to handout sandbags and one person was told by the council to purchase their sandbags.
Twenty years ago when we lived in Frederick Crescent Argyll and Bute Council employees used to deliver sandbags to every property in Frederick Crescent when a storm was forecast and collected them after the storm had passed when the Islay weather returned to normal.
What is the point of paying council tax to Argyll and Bute Council if their staff are too lazy to instruct their employees to hand out sandbags in Frederick Crescent, Port Ellen when a large storm was forecast to protect council taxpayers homes and the property of businesses who pay business rates.