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The Great Borders Flood of 1948 (Paperback)
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The Great Borders Flood of 1948 (Paperback)
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August 1948 was an exceptional month. There were 90mph gales in
Belgium, snowfalls in Switzerland and in the Scottish Borders one
of the heaviest rainfalls ever in one day, while the Tweed received
more than a third of its annual rainfall in only six days. The
flood plain of the Tweed could just about cope with the deluge, but
smaller rivers such as the Tyne at Haddington, the Biel, the
Blackadder, Whiteadder Water, Rivers Till and Eye were disasters
waiting to happen. The main problem was not the twenty-four-hour
deluge but the rain of the previous two weeks that had already seen
the rivers rise to bursting point. 'The Glorious Twelfth' was a day
of disaster and the next few days were to affect the Borders for
months to come. The sheer volume of water flowing down the rivers
resulted in them bursting their banks, causing widespread flooding
over a large area. The East Coast Main Line was breached in many
places and was closed for eleven weeks as a result of the damage.
Trees and other debris swept down with the floodwater had blocked
culverts and the resultant lakes of water put so much pressure on
the embankments that they were simply swept away, leaving railway
lines dangling in mid-air. Roads were damaged and houses, cars and
livestock swept away with the floodwater. There were many lucky
escapes: a train passing over a bridge at Greenlaw just minutes
before the bridge was swept away; people were rescued from their
houses literally seconds before they collapsed from underneath
them. Many deeds of bravery performed in that wet and windy August
are also recorded in Lawson Wood's 'The Great Borders Flood of
1948'. Illustrated with over 100 images of the greatest natural
disaster to hit the Borders, this book is a unique record of that
fateful month of August 1948.
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