Yr12 - Bangladesh flooding

Apologies that I forgot to post the link to the Bangladesh flooding documentary that I told you about on Thursday. It's here. For some reason, it stops very abruptly near the end, but there is still plenty of detail before that point.

Yr12 Flooding and Flood Management

The Environment Agency's Flooding pages have lots of useful information about flood risk, how to prepare for a flood, and about what they are doing to manage flooding. You can also access summaries of their Catchment Flood Management Plans - the one that covers Boscastle is the East Cornwall CFMP.

You might like to have a look at the Met Office's "Past weather events" pages too - useful stuff here about the meteorological conditions behind various interesting weather events as far back as 1990, but including Boscastle, the 2005 Carlisle and North Yorkshire floods, the 2007 floods that affected much of the country, and the Cumbria floods of 2009.

Year 12

Some interesting reactions to the test this morning... Remember that in the actual exam you will only have population OR rivers questions, plus fieldwork questions. We will endeavour to have the papers back for you for Monday next week.

We also had a look at the causes of the 2004 flooding in Bangladesh (although the causes are very similar every time there is flooding in Bangladesh), and the impacts and responses. You will need to be able to talk about flooding in countries with different levels of development.

Also a bit disappointing that I have still only had two Boscastle movies...

Wettest January to August period on record...

According to this article from the BBC, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) have confirmed that this year has seen the wettest January to August period on record.

Worth a read, and worth a look at some of the reader comments as well!

Bewdley...

Information from the Environment Agency about trials of flood defences in the Severn Valley.

Excellent set of photographs of the Bewdley flood defences.

Also remember the resources on the GA website.

Boscastle...

As promised (though a little later than intended.. sorry!) a selection of useful and interesting Boscastle resources. I deliberately haven't included anything from the news websites - not because there's nothing there, or they're not useful, just that there are too many... But do have a look at the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, Times, etc.

Excellent report from the Environment Agency about the Boscastle Flood.

A leaflet about the flood produced by North Cornwall District Council.

Information from the Met Office about the weather conditions leading up to the flood.

Video clip from the construction company responsible for the flood defence scheme in Boscastle.

Details of the Valency defence scheme from NCDC.

Costing the Earth - programme from Radio 4 from December 2004, looking at the flood, the aftermath, and "the lessons we might learn" from the flood.

And finally, the Witchcraft Museum in Boscastle (those of you who were in my GCSE group already know about this one - and the witch balls in the window!) has an online diary of the floods, the damage to the museum, and the cleanup operation.

A question...

Sorting out resources for tomorrow's lesson, I have just found this picture in a news story... What is it, where is it, and how does it work?

Flooding...

Following our conversations this morning about the current and anticipated flooding in England and Wales...

The picture below is of Upton upon Severn, in Worcestershire (the home of the amazing Map Shop) and is one of an In Pictures of the flooding from the BBC. The BBC also has several stories about the flooding (Experts' fear of further flooding, Flood warnings after overnight rain and others...).

Upton upon Severn's website has lots of information and photos of floods from the past ten years, and from 1947. (And as an interesting aside, it seems that Upton is also a plastic-bag free town!)

As I am writing this, there are still 71 flood warnings in place across England and Wales, and 163 flood watches. Several of the flood warnings and watches are on the Trent and the Derwent in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The current flood warnings section of the Environment Agency website is here, but it's also worth having a look at the rest of the Flooding section of the website - there's some good stuff on there about how to prepare for floods, and a review of the Summer 2007 floods.

You can also look at the Flood Risk maps - the same ones that are used by insurance companies to help them to determine premiums.

Also just found the Flood Forum - I've not studied it carefully, but might be worth a look.

Let me know if you find anything else useful or interesting...

Boscastle stuff to follow...

Friday...

As I said, I will not be with you on Friday afternoon as I am very lucky to be going off to do some fieldwork in Dorset.

On Saturday, I will be visiting a number of places that I've taught about lots of times, but never managed to see for myself... Prize for the first SHS person to leave a comment telling me the names of the landmarks shown in the pictures... Bonus points for explanations of their formation!

In my absence, I would like you to work out the following key terms, and find some definitions for them...

snorieo; snatprotantio; postideion; snabriao; tintrioat; cladruyih rwoep; nolustio; latsniota; nortiact; punsesnsnio; greeny

Don't forget, also that you need to make sure that your presentation on the flooding in Africa is ready for Tuesday p1!