On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 15:37:37 +0100, "Alan Murphy"
wrote:

You may well be right, but could you expand your
reasoning on this. I feel that the events are similar in
the sense that torrential rain fell over an unusually long
period in all cases and exceeded the capacity of the
local geography to cope.

In the case of Lynton/Lynton and Boscastle a large quantity of rain fell
in a very short period whereas in the current case a large quantity of
rain fell over a much longer period. I agree that in both cases the
local geography was unable to cope but in both cases the local
geographies were quite dissimilar.

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