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Dr Murphy also said both straps were ripped on the playsuit Ms Hand was wearing.

That said, Goldberg is not exactly strapped for funds in the same way many other Americans are.

“On the one hand, I feel vindicated,” the young reporter — just 33 — told me as we drank coffee, the strap on his digital watch half torn.

An eye-witness described seeing one driver who had got out of his car who had strapped himself to a lamppost with his belt, to stop himself from being washed away.

She said when she had arrived at the airport gate, she had had to remove items and add a luggage strap to keep within the airline's bag allowance.