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Even the best-made contingency plans can be prone to failure. On 23 December 2013, Gatwick Airport experienced unprecedented rainfall. More rain fell on that one day (68mm) than had done for the whole of the month, far exceeding Met Office forecasts. The airport’s flood risk assessment failed to foresee such problems, which led to what was described by its chief executive Stewart Wingate as, “…the worst flooding in the airport’s living memory.”
