Lynmouth disaster
The Lynmouth Flood was a tsunami that of during the night 15th to 16th August 1952 in the village of Lynmouth in southwest England occurred. After 24 hours of torrential rain that brought 250 times the average monthly rainfall, the West Lyn and East Lyn rivers had swelled severely, causing a mud and debris avalanche that destroyed two-thirds of the village and killed 34 people. The flood disaster was considered the worst flood disaster in England to date. The houses on the banks of the East Lyn River destroyed by the flood disaster inMiddleham - between Lynmouth and Watersmeet - were not rebuilt. In their place there is now a memorial park.
According to files of the Royal Air Force (RAF), which have since been released, there are indications that attempts to influence the weather with silver ions and salt took place in the region on the day before the catastrophe in the region during the secret "Operation Cumulus" ( geo-engineering ). Although former RAF pilots remember the deployment, there is no official confirmation of it. Meteorologists, on the other hand, contradict claims that the RAF's attempts had triggered the disaster and explain the disaster by the weather conditions at the time.
Web links
- Lynmouth before the 1952 flood disaster
- Lynmouth in the 1952 flood disaster
- Lynmouth after the 1952 flood disaster
- SWR2 knowledge manuscript for the broadcast Die Wettermacher ( RTF ; 95 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Vidal, Helen Weinstein: RAF rainmakers 'caused 1952 flood' . In: The Guardian . August 30, 2001, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 25, 2017]).
- ↑ BBC: Lynmouth flood disaster. Retrieved April 25, 2017 (UK English).
- ↑ Philip Eden on weathereonline