huge wave crashes through cornish village !!!!

Weather Weird and Significant Weather Events
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It sounds very similar to the Lynton/Lynmouth flood of 1952, although hopefully not with the same scale of damage and loss of life.

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and spookily enough the 1952 Lynton/Lynmouth floods also happened on Aug 16th.

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And it’s 52 years since '52!