On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 at 05:34:12, Graham Easterling
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

There are a number of news stories appearing now. A regular statement
is that parts of west Cornwall received 50% of the normal April
rainfall in 12 hours. In fact locally it was 100% in nearer 6 hours.

There has been extensive flooding. 2 hotels in St Ives had to be
evacuated. It now appears that the new flood defense scheme didn't
help much http://www.stivescornwallblog.co.uk/...n-st-ives.html

Tell me about it!

Just 4-5 years ago Cheltenham had millions spent on new flood defences,
yet look what happened in 2007.

ISTM that Mother Nature just looks on improved flood defences as a
challenge...
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)