Aber or Aberystwyth, Wales, UK floods

UK floods: do you remember Aber?
 
Aberystwyth! If you can spell it, never mind pronounce it, you get full marks! 

"Aber" is a small coastal town in Wales whose population ebbs and flows depending on whether it is university term time or vacation. 

So why should a Singaporean blog on Aberystwyth?

The answer is simple: 

* it is dear to a select professional group who studied there in the seventies and eighties. 

* and which professional group would this be? Why, librarians of course! 

Many of us from Singapore, studied librarianship at the college there when it was known as College of Librarianship Wales (CLW). 

According to Wikipedia, CLW ceased existence as an independent college and merged with the University of Aberystwyth in 1989. 

The latest news to come out of the UK is that Aberystwyth is one of the towns badly affected by the recent floods:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532595/Swathes-Britain-remain-flooded-waterlogged-storms-Governments-Cobra-emergency-committee-meets.html  (pictures include one of huge waves hitting the sea front at Aberystwyth)

http://news.sky.com/story/1190644/storms-uk-braced-for-more-flooding-and-chaos
 
Includes: "Aberystwyth seafront - including 600 rooms of the university's student halls of residence facing the beach - was evacuated and rescue centres set up amid a high tide as strong winds battered the coastline."

The round-up as at 8 Jan 2014 is as follows:
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535589/Storm-reshaped-Britain-After-Cornwall-crumbles-chunk-Dorset-demolished-waves.html

 
 
The damage to the Aber sea front was quite extensive, but we can be thankful there was no loss of life or serious injury. Some university students may even be happy that exams have been postponed!
 

Text written by Ms Yvonne Yin Yee Ying, Graduated from CLW with Post-graduate Diploma in Librarianship, 1984.
 

Blog version re-formatted by Dexterine Ho Soo Miang, Graduate from CLW,  with Post-graduate Diploma in Librarianship, 1982.