About 1,000 houses, rep­resenting 90 per cent of buildings at Anlo Beach, a fishing community, in the Shama District of the Western Region, have been hit by strong tidal waves. Presently, residents are traumatised that the rampaging tidal waves, which for de­cades have wreaked havoc on the area was swiftly eroding their homes and livelihoods, while the community runs into the ocean bed. • A school block in the community has been deserted They have expressed the fear that with the perennial surge of the tidal waves, Anlo Beach community may soon be washed away. They have therefore, made an urgent appeal to the government to expedite action to find a place for them to settle and also construct a sea defense wall to protect community, "else the area would be totally wiped out." The Assembly member for Anlo Beach, Samuel Borlu, who disclosed these to the Ghanaian Times here yesterday said with most homes swept away by the tidal waves, many residents had been displaced and without a place to sleep. Some stuctures affected by the tidal waves Describing the situation as dire, Mr Borlu recalled that the Anlo Beach tidal waves began hitting the community around 1995-1996, but, intensified in 2017-2018, destroy­ing nearly 500 houses. The residents, he said had called on the government to take an immediate action to address their plight and protect their homes and livelihoods from the ravaging tidal waves from the Atlantic Ocean.