Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Floods- Boscastle and Lynmouth

Tomorrow you will be study ing the Lynmouth flood of 1952 and comparing it with the Boscastle flood of 2004. Despite the floods being over 50 years apart you will be amazed by the similarites of the causes of these floods and the devasting effects that they had on two, small tourist villages in the south west of England.

Lynmouth
http://www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk/the_lynmouth_floods_of_1952_exmoor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/16/newsid_2960000/2960180.stm

Boscastle
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3571844.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/Story/0,,1284806,00.html

Comparison
http://www.geoprojects.co.uk/Keyfile/KeyBoscastle.htm

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