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During December 2013 and January 2014 heavy rainfall led to extensive flooding with over 600 houses and 17,000 acres (6,900 ha) of agricultural land, including North Moor, Curry and Hay Moors and Greylake, affected. The villages of Thorney and Muchelney were cut off with many houses flooded.
The 2013–2014 United Kingdom winter floods saw areas of the United Kingdom inundated following severe storms. The south of England saw heavy rainfalls associated with these storms which caused widespread flooding, power cuts and major disruptions to transport.
(January 2013) Year Details Countries Fatalities Causes 120 BCE: ... Bristol Channel floods, 1607: England: 3,000: disputed - possible tsunami 1634: Burchardi Flood:
2013–2014 Atlantic winter storms in Europe were a series of winter storms affecting areas of Atlantic Europe and beyond. The French Atlantic coastal regions (chiefly Brittany), South West and Southern England, West Wales, Ireland, Spanish Atlantic coastal regions (particularly Galicia) were especially affected by a "conveyor belt" series of high-precipitation storms (mostly not exceptional ...
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
2013 Argentina floods: Argentina: 2013 101 2016 Sri Lankan floods: Sri Lanka: 2016 100+ 2023 North India floods: India: 2023 100 2008 Vietnam floods: Vietnam, China: 2008 94 The Mameyes disaster: Puerto Rico 1985 90+ Columbus, Ohio flood on March 25, 1913 United States: 1913 86 "Las Nieves" camping river flood, in Biescas. Spain: 1996 85+
Bates leads a project calibrating the accuracy of the mission by comparing satellite and surface recordings of the changing height of the surface of the Bristol Channel. [24] In 2013 Bates co-founded Fathom, [25] a flood risk analytics firm based in Bristol, UK, with his then PhD students Chris Sampson and Andy Smith and academic colleague Jeff ...
6 February 1809, the Newnham on Severn to Arlingham Passage ferryboat sank in full view of people on both banks of the Severn. Two boatmen on board drowned. 1 February 1868, at the bridge over the Severn at Caersws an approach embankment, damaged by flood water, collapsed under a goods train.