[Brainhose]

That’s one way to get away from the French.

[Publius6961]

There are tons of references on the internet to a similar flood much closer to home: the Missoula floods. Several of them, washing everything before them into the Pacific.

Pretty exciting and impressive stuff.

[SunkenCiv]

Giant flood separates Britain from Europe
	Posted by FoolNoMore On News/Activism 07/18/2007 5:08:03 PM EDT · 33 replies · 843+ views AP | Jul 18, 4:22 PM (ET) | THOMAS WAGNER Study: Megaflood Separated U.K., France Jul 18, 4:22 PM (ET) By THOMAS WAGNER LONDON (AP) - One of Earth's largest-ever megafloods broke apart a strip of land connecting what is now Britain and France, permanently separating them, a new study says. The flood unleashed about 35 million cubic feet of water per second, 100 times greater than the water discharge of the Mississippi River. The natural disaster, which occurred about 400,000 years ago during a glacial period, was later followed by rising sea levels that created what is now the English Channel, the study says. It is not known if...

[SunkenCiv]

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