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Tewkesbury in England experienced severe flooding in 2007 when the River Severn and River Avon overflowed.
The Tewkesbury floods happened due to heavy rainfall which resulted in the River Severn and River Avon overflowing their banks. The excessive water led to widespread flooding in the area, causing damage to homes and infrastructure.
God. I presume you mean Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, UK. The Rivers Severn and Avon meet at Tewkesbury, and the whole area is subject to floods every Winter, in which a few houses in Tewkesbury and elsewhere get flooded. The flood of July 2007 was in Summer, but followed a huge burst of rain in the upper Severn, which you could call an Act of God, others might say that it is just one manifestation of increasingly stormy weather patterns due to global warming. That flood of 2007 was execptionally high, thankfully the district seldom floods so high.
human factors One of the human factors of the flooding is that the town of Tewkesbury is built on a flood plain, this is the flat area that naturally floods at certain times of year. Another human cause of flooding is that rain water easily absorbs into materials like sand, but it is much harder to soak into man-made building materials like concrete and stone buildings. Another is that there was a lot of extra rainfall before the floods started, and this can easily block drains with leaves and debris, meaning that there is nowhere for the water to go. ­­­­some of the physical and climatic factors of the Tewkesbury floods were that global warming affected the jet stream meaning that our British summer weather arrived later than normal, we had lots of rain because of that. Also Tewksbury is naturally a very low lying part of the countryside meaning that it floods easily, it is also as the confluence of two rivers (the Avon and Severn) meaning that there is a lot of water passing close by to the town, this is yet another risk of flooding. The extra rainfall contributed a lot to the floods that Tewkesbury suffered, it meant that there was a lot of extra water being carried in the rivers passing by, they couldn't contain so much water and subsequently overflowed into the area of floodplain that happened to have been built on. hope this helps :3
The Tewkesbury floods in 2007 were caused by prolonged and heavy rainfall which led to the rivers Severn and Avon overflowing. The high levels of rainfall saturated the ground, leading to widespread flooding in the area. Additionally, poor drainage systems and the convergence of multiple waterways in the region exacerbated the flooding.
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Sandra Tewkesbury died in 1962.
Ken Tewkesbury died on 1970-11-20.
Tewkesbury is in the county of Gloucestershire.
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Tewkesbury in England experienced severe flooding in 2007 when the River Severn and River Avon overflowed.
There was an outbreak of cholera in Tewksbury in 1832 and 76 people died
Sandra Tewkesbury was born in 1942.
Tewkesbury Abbey was created in 715.
Tewkesbury School was created in 1972.
The Tewkesbury floods happened due to heavy rainfall which resulted in the River Severn and River Avon overflowing their banks. The excessive water led to widespread flooding in the area, causing damage to homes and infrastructure.
Because the town is situated near a couple of major bodies of water (where the Avon and Severn meet), it floods often. From wikipedia The area around Tewkesbury is frequently affected by flooding. In general such flooding causes little damage to property as the town is surrounded by large areas of floodplain which restrict urban development and the ability for the town to spread. However, extreme flooding events have caused damage to property and affected transport links, the most significant events occurring in 1947,[4] 1960[5] and 2007. 4. ^ The great floods of 1947, The Guardian July 25th 2007 5. Historic flooding in the Severn catchment, Geographical Association 6. Tewkesbury Grammar School 1576 - 1972, Paul *****, Grenfell Publications 1987 I will concentrate on the 2007 flood