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Old June 22nd 07, 02:40 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Tudor Hughes Tudor Hughes is offline
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Default Boscastle flooded again (not as severe as '04)

On Jun 21, 10:53 pm, Alan White wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:18:38 GMT, "STUART ONYECHE"

wrote:
Are they trying to make the story more dramatic by giving the flood depths
in mm?


What other unit would they use?

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Alan White


Well, er, feet, being the unit that everybody
understands. The observation was obviously made in feet because the
conversion to millimetres is ludicrously exact. All right, it's
609.6 mm. If they must use metric, then cm.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.