If this is an indicator of the amount of water falling onto about six square feet in 48 hours, I have made an approximate (very!) calculation of how much water has accumulated in the combe over the same period.
Bear in mind that I failed maths at school but here are the calculations:
Surface area of wheelbarrow 6 square feet .. amount of rain water 2.5 gallons .. surface area of combe approx 160 acres or 6,969,600 square feet ... divide that figure by 6 = 1,161,600 ... multiply that by 2.5 and you arrive at a figure of 2,904,000 gallons.
So there we have it - roughly 3 million gallons of rain water falling on the combe in the past 48 hours. Flooding evident on underground watercourses surfacing in the lower reaches by the beach car park.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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