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....
<!--QuoteBegin-Richard Stowe@ Assistant Chief Constable for Devon and Cornwall Police telling BBC radio
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Here's a....news article
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i was supposed to be in a holiday cottage thing in cornwall right now. robably not right there butanyways
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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