Royal Meteorological Society talk: Lancaster’s critical infrastructure collapse following intense rainfall on 4/5 December 2015
- Date: Wednesday 21 February 2018
- Location: Earth and Environment
- Type: Yorkshire Local Centre of the Royal Meteorological Society, Seminars, Earth and Environment
- Cost: Free
Speaker: Dr Emma Ferranti, Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.
Heavy rainfall on an already saturated catchment caused the River Lune to flood the city. Critical transport networks ground to a halt, and mains power was cut off for two days after a key substation flooded, thus leaving the majority of communication services out of action.
In her talk, Emma will describe the impact of the flooding and its implications for resilience in populous urban areas when faced with more frequent extreme weather events.
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