The floods book 2007 summer

Estranged meteorologoist father leonard courtnay and marine engineer son carlyle are caught up in a weather related disaster as spring tides meet a freak north sea superstorm, flooding london. The forgotten city of the 2007 summer floods bbc news. More than 6,000 people in hull were forced from their homes in the june floods how has the city rebounded. Impacts of the summer 2007 floods on agriculture in. Learning lessons from the 2007 floods tom coulthard. It is important that we learn from our experiences in this summer s floods. Worcestershire is used to winter floods, but a summer deluge is almost unheard of.

Surface water and river flooding affected more than 55,000 homes and businesses across the country. What happened summer 2007 was the wettest on record. Request pdf impacts of the summer 2007 floods on agriculture in england. But given that the subject of flood summer is, essentially, secrets, quiet people, whispered conversations, somehow it feels appropriate. The summer floods and the generally unfavourable climatic conditions in 2007 affected yields and national output of important vegetable crops, notably peas, carrots and potatoes defra, 2007. Exceptional rainfall in the summer of 2007 caused extensive flooding in parts of. The effect of the summer 2007 floods on individuals. The floods arent like other families for a start, theyre a. This book ought to remain a secret, a treasure for a very few. Impacts of the summer 2007 floods on agriculture in england.

I think this book, more than any other of karens to date, has brought me to floods of tears, feeling the characters pain. The summer 2007 floods in england and wales a hydrological appraisal. Englands 2007 summer floods environment the guardian. Scenes of flooding around the uk in the summer of 2007. Summer floods 2007 worcestershire under water brings together many of the photographs produced by the worcester news team of photographers in this unique record of the events in june and july. In many regions, annual floods follow the thaws and rains of spring. Some locations notably on the river severn between tewkesbury and gloucester, the thames upstream of oxford, and south yorkshire suffered record breaking.

Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. If the book were to be dramatised it would probably have worked best as a miniseries. The summer 2007 floods in england and wales a hydrological. Chairmans foreword over 55,000 homes and businesses were flooded this summer as we experienced the wettest may to july period in the last 250 years. The scene on astral close in hull where a man died after getting his foot caught in a manhole following torrential rain. Travels through a sodden landscape main market by platt, edward isbn. England, especially in south and east yorkshire, worcestershire, gloucestershire.