WWW.GROUNDSURE.COM Case Study Summer Floods Sussex Groundsure’s home county of Sussex was battered by torrential rain earlier this month and it was reported that there was more rainfall in 9 hours than the average for the entirety of August. (1) Flash surface water flooding happened across the county , Brighton Station was flooded and Eastbourne’s Arndale centre had to be evacuated. The devastation of this flood event, however , doesn’t compare to the fallout from the floods in the summer of 2007. The highest ever recorded rainfall in May , June and July since 1766 led to the floods in 2007. (2) The first events occurred in northern regions in June and again in July affecting the southern part of the country . Several fatalities occurred and the Environment Agency repor

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