"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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"Phil" wrote in message
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We have just had a reliable report of 69 mm at Stalham for todays rain
(0500 to 1600), and would welcome any other reports.

Thanks Phil. I just tuned in to the local news on BBC East
via Sky and watched a harassed Anglian Water chappie ... you
had to feel sorry for him up to a point ... trying to blame
"unprecedented rates of rainfall" for the four flooding events
in Gt Yarmouth during the last six weeks. Of course, admitting
your own company's inefficiency or incompetence lays you
open to all sorts of financial claims, so these poor saps have
to be economical with the truth.

Maybe someone should give him the data for end of July
1971 for some salutary bedtime reading.


69 mm is a lot of rain but not exceptional by any means. What we have to
remember is that flooding has many causes and it is the flooding that causes the
problems not the rainfall. Many places in Britain (upland bogs) often get such
falls, but of course there are few problems as those areas can cope with it.

Will (Haytor, Devon 1017 feet asl)
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