i was stunned when i saw the footage on the news cars being swept away and buildings literally being ripped apart
cant imagine what that must be like to watch
i was stunned when i saw the footage on the news cars being swept away and buildings literally being ripped apart
cant imagine what that must be like to watch
Those who dont learn from the past are doomed to repeat It.
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nvm
Originally posted by Azzz+17 August 2004 - 15:04--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Azzz @ 17 August 2004 - 15:04)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>cars being swept away
cant imagine what that must be like to watch [/b]
Not to mention possibly being in one of those cars....
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i was supposed to be in a holiday cottage thing in cornwall right now. robably not right there but anyways
Very glad there seem to be no fatalities; one could not have guessed such would be the case judging by the news reports and footage.
J'Pol-
Your lack of concern for global warming indicates you are pond scum.
That makes two of us; maybe three, if we can count on Biggles, but where was he when I needed him last Saturday?
Tending to his gruntle, probably.
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
JP may now be worried that it has now hit his neck of the woods. A road was swept away by a landslide, caused by heavy rain, in Scotland yesterday. Again. luckily, there were no serious caualties.
The best way to keep a secret:- Tell everyone not to tell anyone.
too many places named Cornwall, I got confused
Ohh noo!!! I make dribbles!!!
It is the county of Cornwall in south west England, Keikan. The place it happened was a small village there called Bocastle.
The best way to keep a secret:- Tell everyone not to tell anyone.
Stangely, a few miles further up the coast, 52 years to the day, exactly the same thing happened to the town of Lynmouth.
http://www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk/Abou...nFloods1952.htm
Unfortunaltey they ended with rather tragic results.Originally posted by nigel123@19 August 2004 - 10:13
Stangely, a few miles further up the coast, 52 years to the day, exactly the same thing happened to the town of Lynmouth.
http://www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk/Abou...nFloods1952.htm
I have been there on holiday before and seen the memorial and the mueseum
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