Flood below the railway bridge at Chester Road, north Birmingham
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The photograph on this page of Flood below the railway bridge at Chester Road, north Birmingham by Mo Westrop as part of the Geograph project.
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Flood below the railway bridge at Chester Road, north Birmingham
Image: © Mo Westrop Taken: 27 May 2018
After a night of thunderstorms and rain, a downpour on the afternoon of 27 May 2018 ("a month's rain in an hour") produced a flood in the dip of the road below the bridge. A car was abandoned; other traffic found ways round. Flashing blue lights were placed by the car as a warning. Rain, sometimes heavy, continued through the evening, accompanied by thunder and lightning. By 20:30 the car had been removed, the rain had stopped, and the flood had largely drained away. In Walsall an 80-year old man died after being rescued from a car caught in floodwater.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.535196
Longitude
-1.832923