STORMS AND GALES
Britain Suffers Severely A NIGHT OF TERROR London, September 4. Britain has been swept by storms and gales. Two hundred people spent a night of terror at Wincbelsea, Sussex, when mountainous seas broke the foreshore embankment, flooded sixty holiday bungalows, and isolated 150. The water was so rough that it was impossible for boats to reach them. Women and children screamed with terror. Some tried to wade to safety, risking injury on submerged barbed wire fences. Others climbed to the roofs and remained there until the tide abated. Motorists focused their headlights on the desolate scene, assisting rescuers. The same area was also flooded last November. The sea is encroaching at the rate of fifty feet a year.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 9
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121STORMS AND GALES Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 9
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