Boscastle Flooding 🩵

Question 1

what are some primary effects?

Answer 1

.Destroyed houses
.destroyed businesses
.150 vehicles swept away
.trees uprooted

Question 2

What are some secondary effects?

Answer 2

.homelessness
.disruption to transportation
.psychological impacts
.tourism effected- economic losses
.Soil erosion

Question 3

What are some short term responses?

Answer 3

.more than 100 people evacuated
.8 treated for conditions such as hypothermia and broken bones
.emergency funds to residents
.cleaning up debris

Question 4

What are some long term responses?

Answer 4

.£4.5 million spent on a flood defence scheme
.Boscastle car park raised in height to stop river from bursting its banks
.new drains to allow water to run into the lower section of the river quickly
.rebuilt houses to better standard

Question 5

What causes the flooding?

Answer 5

.heavy localised rainfall- 89mm fell in an hour
.saturated ground from previous rainfall
.narrow river channels in the village