Gloucester Floods - 2007
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- Gloucester Floods - 2007
- CAUSES
- Month rainfall in ONE day
- A victorian Dam failed
- PRIMARY EFFECTS
- 3 drowned in initial downpour
- 30,000 evacuated in Hull
- M5 Motorway closed
- 350,000 without water
- 140,000 for a week
- 60-80 people slept in Tewkesbury Abbey
- SECONDARY EFFECTS
- 7000 businesses flooded
- £3 billion cost to insurers
- 13 PEOPLE DEAD
- 18,000 motor claims
- 120,000 household insurance claims
- FUTURE?
- Large threat still
- Lack of protection
- Increase in Global Warming
- CAUSES
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