[Stooky Bill]

The question is whether there will still be people who can be called in next time York floods to mount a sustained emergency service. And whether the people of North Derbyshire want to hear about it

If they are true to their plans they aren't lowering the numbers of staff, just moving roles from Radio to 'digital' (hate that phrase) so officially there will be. If they've not all left

Thing is that having extra programmes for something like a flood is different to covering an 'incident'. As I say the latter is covered mainly by eyewitnesses phoning in and if you're lucky colleagues who are nearby. 

Coverage of flooding goes on for a day or 2 so can be arranged - it's not breaking news (especially in some areas where it can be predicted) . However as you say will there be enough people for that? Most stations will only have 2 or 3 presenters and a handful of  production staff working on their programmes. There will be other journalists of course, and you'd hope there'd regularly be reporters and producers in York contributing items to the regional programmes. 

However if they wanted to do a few days of local they'd maybe need some overtime from those left and freelance staff (as they do now in those circumstances) will the goodwill be there any more. That's something some management fail to understand - the need to keep the goodwill of your staff so when you want favours they'll be willing