*N.B. The rushes for this story are BETA SP tape GEN0524* Boscastle, England - 17 August 2004 1. Overturned cars on top of trees 2. Damaged building 3. Flood-damaged riverbank, pan out to wide shot of valley 4. Boscastle harbour with overturned boats 5. Fire engines driving down road, pan to police walking 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gayle Truswell, resident: "My motor home is somewhere out in the Atlantic with all my possessions apart from perhaps a suitcase of clothes that may be in the house over there." 7. Reporters on ridge looking down at valley, pan to valley 8. Various of flooded Witchcraft Museum 9. Firemen walking on road 10. Deputy Chief Superintendent Dave Ellis being interviewed 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dave Ellis, Deputy Chief Superintendent of the Devon-Cornwall Police: "We're concentrating this morning on carrying out a thorough search of the village and of the large number of vehicles that were swept into the sea yesterday. Obviously it's been too dangerous to do that sort of work overnight, so the concentration today is to do a thorough search so that everybody's been accounted for and also to do some initial work around what buildings are safe, what buildings are unsafe, and how the authorities take it from here." Camelford, England - 17 August 2004 12. Various of Camelford Leisure Centre 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Patrick Smith, British tourist: "I went into the Wellington hotel and then we were told to get out of there because there was some flood water coming up through there. Then we went to a cottage on the other side of the road and the woman there called out to the fire engine and they just said to go up the hill to get out of the way. So we just did that, really, and ended up at the top of the hill in the - well, first of all we couldn't get to the community centre so we had to climb up through somebody's garden, then follow the road along and ended up at the community centre or the village hall or whatever." 14. Camelford Leisure Centre STORYLINE: Rescue services were continuing to search the area around the coastal village of Boscastle, in Cornwall, southwest England on Tuesday, after severe flash flooding. Devon and Cornwall Police said more than 100 people have been evacuated from the area, a popular summer tourist area with sandy beaches and picturesque villages. The flooding was sparked by 2.4 inches (6 centimetres) of rainfall in just hours on Monday afternoon. Residents in Boscastle, which lies in a valley leading to the sea, reported that an estimated three-foot (1 metre) wall of water poured through the streets at 40 mph (65 kilometres per hour). Scores of people were airlifted from cars, trees and rooftops where they had scrambled to evade the rapidly rising water, and eight people have been treated for conditions ranging from hypothermia to broken bones. The Coastguard said that police divers will search for as many as 50 vehicles, believed to be empty, that were washed into a harbour. British tourist Patrick Smith said he was on a day trip to the village of Camelford when the floods hit, forcing him to run for shelter. Smith and other tourists have now been evacuated to the Camelford Leisure Centre, which lies at the top of a hill. The flood waters were nine-feet (3 metres) deep in some areas, filling bed-and-breakfast lodges and tea shops, officials said. You can license this story through AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f096efd5be3375a731ca5bee13d04c94 Find out more about AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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