"However, during the early hours of the morning, unforecast rain washed the salt away and then froze on the roads, " he added.

BBC: Warnings about ice on Welsh roads were issued

St Mary's Church made headlines last month when human bones fell down the cliffside after heavy rain washed away part of the graveyard.

BBC: Landslip at St Mary's Church, Whitby

The Negev gets less than 100mm of rain per year, most of which is washed away in flash floods down mountainsides, so the use of irrigation is not necessarily new.

BBC: The Negev desert wine route

Staffordshire County Council said the floods, caused by melting snow and rain, had washed away a temporary dam it had built.

BBC: A34 at Meaford reopens after flooding

Then Mother Nature plugged the rain and the golfing stars shone in "one of the best days in Europe's history" as a "phenomenal" afternoon of golf washed away frustrations of moaning in the morning rain.

BBC: Europe reign after the storm

Every grain of sand washed away by rain from mountains and from the land finally reaches these obstacles called dams which we built across rivers and remains there, diminishing further the water storage capacity of dams.

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