http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6228422.stm

Boscastle on alert over flooding

In 2004 flood water poured through the historic village

Floods have hit the Cornish village of Boscastle leaving shops and
properties under about 2ft (610mm) of water.

Cars have also been abandoned in the village which was devastated by
flooding in 2004.

Cornwall Fire Brigade, which has crews pumping out water and helping
residents, said the worst affected area was by the harbour.

On 21 Jun, 20:29, " cupra" wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6228422.stm

Boscastle on alert over flooding

In 2004 flood water poured through the historic village

Floods have hit the Cornish village of Boscastle leaving shops and
properties under about 2ft (610mm) of water.

Cars have also been abandoned in the village which was devastated by
flooding in 2004.

Cornwall Fire Brigade, which has crews pumping out water and helping
residents, said the worst affected area was by the harbour.

Sadly, it's a rather regular event in Boscastle. Flood levels reached
as high as 2004 twice in the 1950s. (I've seen photos showing the
water levels) The 2004 flood was exacerbated by the NT building a
large car park on the flood plain, much of the structural damage was
done by cars being washed through the village. This should be removed,
together with the NT 'Visitor Centre' which gets right in the way of
the water flow.

The whole of north Cornwall is prone to intense downpours, places like
Camelford & Wadebridge have been flooded on a number of occasions, but
it's the geomorphology of Boscastle that makes things particularly
bad. Intense downpours align themselves with the north Cornish coast,
normally associated with the onset of a sea breeze, but I can't see
that would have occured today.

I've got an account of one of these north coast events, which I
witnessed in June 2005 (with photos) at www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/SrMerrynStorm.PDF

Graham
Penzance

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

"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
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On 21 Jun, 20:29, " cupra" wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6228422.stm

Boscastle on alert over flooding

In 2004 flood water poured through the historic village

Floods have hit the Cornish village of Boscastle leaving shops and
properties under about 2ft (610mm) of water.

Cars have also been abandoned in the village which was devastated by
flooding in 2004.

Cornwall Fire Brigade, which has crews pumping out water and helping
residents, said the worst affected area was by the harbour.

Sadly, it's a rather regular event in Boscastle. Flood levels reached
as high as 2004 twice in the 1950s. (I've seen photos showing the
water levels) The 2004 flood was exacerbated by the NT building a
large car park on the flood plain, much of the structural damage was
done by cars being washed through the village. This should be removed,
together with the NT 'Visitor Centre' which gets right in the way of
the water flow.

The whole of north Cornwall is prone to intense downpours, places like
Camelford & Wadebridge have been flooded on a number of occasions, but
it's the geomorphology of Boscastle that makes things particularly
bad. Intense downpours align themselves with the north Cornish coast,
normally associated with the onset of a sea breeze, but I can't see
that would have occured today.

I've got an account of one of these north coast events, which I
witnessed in June 2005 (with photos) at
www.easterling.freeserve.co.uk/SrMerrynStorm.PDF

Graham
Penzance

"STUART ONYECHE" wrote in message
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Are they trying to make the story more dramatic by giving the flood depths
in mm?


Quite.
They'll be doing that with snow next.....
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

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

Quite.
They'll be doing that with snow next.....

Where's my micrometer?....

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
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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?

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

2ft was probably sufficient!

"Alan White" wrote in message
...
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?

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in
Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

T'was just a shower(ok a heavy one)

18.00(20/6)-18.00 55.2 mm

18.00(21/6)-21.00 38.4 mm

15.00-21.00 75.6 mm

16/8/2004 gave me 53 mm but 200 mm upstream in otterham

Don
Boscastle

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?

--
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.

"Don" wrote in message
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T'was just a shower(ok a heavy one)

18.00(20/6)-18.00 55.2 mm

18.00(21/6)-21.00 38.4 mm

15.00-21.00 75.6 mm

16/8/2004 gave me 53 mm but 200 mm upstream in otterham

Don
Boscastle


Exactly Don. Put 250 mm+ over the high ground and Boscastle would be devastated
again.
Nothing can be done, it is where it is. The recent flood preventions presumably
will do a good job with light rainfalls but an extreme fall will always give
problems. One day I fear the whole village will end up in the sea. You can't
stop nature.

Will (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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