Boscastle Flooding
- Created by: ed bee
- Created on: 20-04-17 19:07
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- Boscastle Flooding
- causes
- antecedent rainfall meant saturated ground
- a large depression over atlantic
- 9cm of rain in 1 hour
- local topography resulted in water funnelled towards Boscastle
- effects
- no one died.
- 58 buildings flooded
- infrastructure repair costs came to £15 million
- responses
- RAF search and rescue teams deployed
- MET office tried to improve their flood warning systems for localised storms
- a 1 in a 400 year event so not deamed cost effective to build flood defenses
- causes
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