Ottery St. Mary??

You could probably be forgiven if you haven't heard of Ottery St Mary - but this Devon town made the national news today after freak hailstorms caused "absolute chaos"...

Rather scary video and In Pictures from the BBC and an interesting set of photos and links on Great Geography (thanks Jo!).

And on a a related note, an interesting article from the BBC about the success (or otherwise of you read the whole article) of the new Boscastle flood defences.

Storm damage...

You will remember the storms we had back in January... Well, I've just had an email from someone who "randomly stumbled" on Geogtastic, and he has pointed out the rather scary video below, showing the roof of the Holiday Inn blowing off and causing damage to the Walker Stadium next door. Which led me to find another article from the BBC about the damage caused around the East Midlands from these storms.



Thanks Mac!