Blog: Learning from history - Boscastle, 10 years on
With its narrow valley and picture postcard scene, the devastation which struck the small hamlet of Boscastle on 16 August 2004 illustrated like no other event the damage our climate can do. So ten years on, what have we learned?
The five inches of rainfall that fell in one afternoon combined with water funnelling downhill from the heavily saturated moors nearby and caused a wave of destruction as the river Valency burst its
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