Home

1607 flood in Wales and England studied by scientists at Newport forum

Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2007/02/15 - 00:54. 1601 CE and Later | English | General Science | Welsh
One of the worst natural disasters to ever hit Great Britain occurred 400 years ago last month. On January 30, 1607, a storm flooded over 200 square miles of south Wales and southwest England. Now a risk management company is looking at the modern costs of recovery from such a storm.

Recalculated for today, the flood would have cost a staggering UK£13 billion, according to weather and tsunami experts at a recent forum in Newport, Wales.

Dr Claire Souch, director of model management at Risk Management Solutions, said, "We've run a variety of simulations of a storm surge coming up the Bristol Channel today and in the worst case scenario the flood heights would be so high, they would over-top existing defences and cause flooding over an extremely large area."

» login or register to post comments | 580 reads | go to original article (200)