Bob, there was a very interesting programme about the East coast floods. There was no way to come to grips with the unfolding tragedy, though as much as anything, everyone was unaware of how bad it was everywhere else and no way to pass warnings down the line with no one to hear the warnings or act on them. The damage was very evident years later, some lightweight buildings remained hundreds of yards from their starting places.
At one point it was very fashionable to remove the sand dunes with the results that the natural management of sand shifting was broken and in some cases half the county became covered with sand and the other half of the county lost its sand! It took years for the penny to drop and the re-instatement to start to take place.
