Published Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Residents in Lisnaskea, in an area known as Kilmore Quay, have said rising floodwaters have left "people feeling cut off".
Water levels in Lough Erne are at a record high after the equivalent of three months of rainfall fell in the West of the country in just three weeks.
There has been extensive flooding throughout Fermanagh over the last few days, as flood water turned roads into rivers and farmlands into lakes.
Local resident Seamus Smyth said the entire county should be declared a disaster zone, as people struggle to deal with the flooding, caused by 38 days of consecutive rainfall.
"If anyone of these people got seriously ill or somebody had an accident I don't think services could get in to take anyone out," he said.
John Wylie from the Met Office told UTV: "It has been exceptionally wet, there have been slow moving weather fronts for the last 40 days or so and it has been the West which has been capturing all that moisture off the Atlantic."
The Met Office has now said a reprieve is now in sight for the battered county.
But it is also believed that it would take at least four weeks of dry weather for water levels to return to normal.
Experts have also warned that the floods have not yet reached their peak and they are hoping to drain some water from Lough Erne in the next few days.
The emergency services have also drawn up plans to get supplies to homes which have been cut off for days.
In Enniskillen engineers have raised a submerged road to allow access to the Erneside Shopping Centre, which on Tuesday could only be reached by boat.
The Roads Service has told UTV the new access will alleviate traffic congestion building up in and around flood-hit Enniskillen.
But many roads south of the town remain impassable because of flood water.
