UK STORMS - DRAMATIC PICTURES OF RAIL LINE SLIDING DOWN THE CLIFF INTO THE SEA IN DAWLISH - HOUSES ALSO HEADED THE SAME WAY

Military drafted into Somerset Levels to help with flood defences as evacuated families fear their homes will fall into the sea

• Downing Street said around 8,000 properties were yesterday without power due to another violent Atlantic storm
• Winds of up to 92mph caused 'airborne debris' to fly into overhead lines and made repairs difficult
• Gusts of up to 70mph were expected inland across parts of south Wales, Devon and Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset
• Met Office warned winds likely to be 'similar sort of strength' all day and poor weather will continue until weekend
• Environment Agency issued four severe flood warnings which are only put in place when there is 'danger to life'
• Prime Minister pledges extra £100m for flood defences and chairs COBRA national emergency committee
• Estimated 4million people were yesterday left outside shut Tube stations or left scrambling for buses or taxis

Read more and see pictures of devastation
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2552027/Britains-coastline-battered-storms-hurricane-force-winds-sweep-Atlantic.html

 

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According to the Environment Agency, some 28 per cent of Britain’s coastline is subject to erosion of up to four inches a year. That might not seem very much, but in a decade it’s more than a yard.  

 

And the reality is rarely slow and gentle: it means waves crashing down on Victorian promenades, dramatic flooding and sudden rock slides in the Devon coast.  The most extreme example this week has, of course, been the smashing of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s seaside railway line at Dawlish, which now looks as though some raging giant has crushed it under his heel.

 
Read more and see pictures
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553504/ANDREW-MARR-What-picture-tells-cruel-choices-facing-Britain.html

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