Cwmtillery, Wales circa 1960. Wales coal mining village.

I can see my house from here - well, where I was born and bred. Still home to me in my heart. And the tip that slipped last week is the one in the distance above the chimney top.

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Storm Bert chaos across Somerset with hundreds of incidents Some roads remain closed and flooded after the storm

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Google Earth image from 2013 showing the site of the coal tip landslide at Cwmtillery.

Over the weekend, #StormBert triggered a failure in a coal tip at #Cwmtillery in South Wales. This has elevated concern about the enduring risk of these old industrial sites as climate change leads to increasingly intense rainfall.
Initial analysis of the landslide at: eos.org/thelandslide...

House in Welsh village partially collapses during Storm Bert The detached property has been ruined by the force of a storm which battered many parts of Wales across Saturday and Sunday

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Drone video of severe flooding in England Drone video captures severe flooding in Northampton, England due to storm Bert.

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Terrified residents forced to flee homes after massive landslide buries street Homeowners in Cwmtillery, South Wales were forced to evacuate after their street was buried in stinking three-foot deep sludge following a massive landslide as Storm Bert continues to wreak havoc

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Landslip which caused ‘carnage’ in Welsh town was coal tip ‘wash-out’ The local authority has told the Welsh Government the Cwmtillery landslip was a ‘singular wash-out of a former coal tip in the area’.

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Chippenham under water after Storm Bert floods hit The Wiltshire town of Chippenham remains under water today as businesses and residents struggle to cope with the flood water. Roads and schools are closed as emergency crews get to work

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Distressing footage of flooding in #Cwmtillery. Much of #JaneArden’s harrowing, experimental feature film ‘The Other Side of the Underneath’ (1973) was filmed there.