Devastating Yorkshire Floods – 1930

Climate-changes. Always has, always will.

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

The Whitby lifeboat had to be called out for a flood two miles inland at Ruswarp in Yorkshire (pictured) on 23 July 1930 as the rising waters threatened Whitby and the surrounding areas. The Whitby Gazette called it “a thrilling rescue” amid gale-force winds. According to weather reporter Bill Foggit: “The awesome power of the flood was more than matched by the indomitable spirit of the Whitby lifeboat men. Up the raging Esk they came to rescue marooned families.” The floods left crops damaged, carried away sheep, and destroyed bridges.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries/12071707/In-pictures-Britains-wildest-ever-weather.html?frame=3536809

The Telegraph has a series of pictures of wild “weather” events, (Incl earthquakes, for some reason!)

The above one particularly caught my eye, as it was in July 1930. This period was a particularly wet era. The four months from October 1929 to January 1930 were by far the wettest of any four months…

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