Just to set the record straight on this, it was not a storm or a flash flood, or anything like the other natural disasters.
There can be no guarantee that a regular maintenance programme would necessarily detect such hazards before a storm or flash flood.
The devastation caused by the flash flood has to some extent been exacerbated because of the environmental need to restore the valley, including the highway, to its former condition.
My eighth point concerns the fact that some constituents experienced not just a flash flood but sewage flooding, as a result of living in relatively low-lying places.
A vehicle provides little to no protection against being swept away; it may make people overconfident and less likely to avoid the flash flood.
Weather conspired against them and after a thick fog caused a "double ambush", a flash flood carried them into the caverns below.
This bridge was washed away by a flash flood in 1957 or 1958.
It is possible to experience a flash flood without witnessing any rain.
