What would happen if such an ETC
ripped through London?
Transcript of keynote speech by Donald Burfitt-Dons continued
All intense cyclones are accompanied by heavy rainfall
and flooding and we are fortunate today to have with us Tim Reeder from
Thames 2100 Project to explain our first line of defence for this, the
largest cause of deaths.
Flying debris is also a major cause of casualties and
we would see tiles and other objects sailing through the air at lethal
speeds, Windows are normally sheeted over in areas which are accustomed
to tropical cyclones. In our case injuries from shattering glass windows
are likely to be severe.
Infrastructure damage is hard to assess because experience
has shown that it is highest with a first event and lowers as the population
adjusts its buildings and habits to the new conditions, but we would
expect there to be severe collateral damage to occur in a first event.
On the same rationale we expect many rollovers from high sided vehicles
in superwinds. Continued Donald Burfitt-Dons
explains how superwinds form
the
planet's way of recycling heat energy/
the first Brazilian hurricane/cyclones
outside the tropics/how
the GWA monitors hurricane activity/the
rising tropopause/ETC activity
since the 50s/l ETC activity
since 1990/ the effect of an ETC
on London /how superwinds form/
the impact of ETCs on aircraft/data
from 21 recent storms/ UK as a breeding
ground for tornadoes/
the impact on the insurance industry/
future implications /threat
of ETCs to Europe and UK
