Friday, April 01, 2005

The Great Flood Of 1606

Just watching this fascinating Timewatch documentary about a cataclysmic local disaster. To be honest I'd never heard of this event, despite the fact it caused death and destruction over 200 square miles of the Severn coast both in here and England.

Long thought to have been caused by a storm surge of record proportions, this offered fascinating and compelling evidence that it could have actually be caused by a Tsunami generated by an Earthquake in the Irish Sea.

Filmed before the events of the Asian Tsunami of Boxing Day 2004, the echoes of the events, reconstructed from old engravings and historical pamphlets, were eerily similar. Quite strange, especially as it was killing 100s of people just a few miles from where I'm sat now.

Either way, [DEAD LINK] Tsunami or Tidal Surge, it was a fascinating documentary and a real eye opener.

Posted by Dio Bach at 20:45

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