Boscastle Flood

You have to produce a report on this flood that happened in 2004.

You must include:

• Location of Boscastle
• The causes of the flood both physical and human (rain, steep slopes, two rivers merging...).
• The effects of the flood (cars washed away, people being airlifted,buildings damaged...)
• The ways in which Boscastle has improved the village to ensure it does not happen again.

Resources
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3570940.stm

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/philip-eden/Some-facts-and-figures.htm

Copy the whole of this link and put it into your browser
http://www.geographyalltheway.com/ib_geography/ib_drainage_basins/lynmouth_
boscastle/boscastle_images/boscastle.htm