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Storm Damage
« on: January 02, 2014, 03:25:47 pm »

We've just been to Coniston for a pub lunch....nice!

We then went for a stroll down to the lake and it seems that the recent storms have had a good go at the launch pier.


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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2014, 04:08:46 pm »

Has the Café survived this year ?.

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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2014, 04:24:41 pm »

Has the Café survived this year ?.

So far, yes.  There were a number of yachts going on unaccompanied trips along the lake too.
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2014, 05:18:36 pm »

good swimming weather :}

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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2014, 06:02:46 pm »

good swimming weather :}

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-25575186

And New Years Eve the year before last some muppet decided to jump from the Torpoint Ferry, and washed up several weeks later.
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2014, 07:06:05 pm »

All you people down South ,you really have my sympathy ,all this bad weather ,floods ,dosent seem fair at all ,and those people in Cornwall ,g,bless em ,enough water has been ,now its forcast again ,I live on high ground and get the wind serious ,but the floods no thanks ,so my sympathy goes to all of you down South .Dave .
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2014, 07:17:35 pm »

Thanks. Good news is I've fixed the flood rescue RIB so hopefully if it does go too pearshaped we can get out on the water and provide some assistance  O0
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2014, 01:07:47 pm »

Still some idiots about.  >>:-( <*<


Had one yesterday. Was crew on both boats at one stage. Easier one was helping fishing boat in harbour.


www.newcastlelifeboat.info/index.php/services/2014-service-list/44-missing-man-dog
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2014, 03:36:50 pm »

i meant to post yesterday that i hope Regiment (Gordon) escaped the floods ok.i heard parts of perranporth got battered.
any news much appreciated thanks
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2014, 03:40:30 pm »

He is online as we type :-)) :-))
New Laptop is good to go :}


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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2014, 07:09:56 pm »

hi thanks for your concern all ok but all the cafes the pub and the doctorsby the beach under water the beach is not recoonized  and the car park has lost all of the signs and is full of sand and rubbish we are five minutes from the beach but on the high side BUT the back garden is under a blanket of raw sewage the sea pushed it back up the pipe sww came out today the whole garden has to be dug up and relaid with new soil and my shed is over some of it might get a new shed ha ha have a picture or two of my garden but it could put you off tea told by sww not to walk on it scaffold men came to day to put up scaffold for new gutters  bit narked as were told no walking on it  no over time went home  but there are people worse of than me and the wife so will say good night from smelly old regiment   ps my shed stinks inside
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2014, 09:40:30 pm »

glad to hear you are good mate,ive been in the carpark before with high spring tides,you dont appreciate how much water is in a wave until it lands in a carpark and doesnt roll straight back out.
will the beach get back to how it was or is it permanently changed now?
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2014, 10:35:32 am »

hi red squarril  if you know the beach car park you have seen the watering hole café on the beach at the moment there is a 10foot drop from the front of it..the 2 rivers that run into the the beach  are being  pushed back towards the town  raining again  not helping my garden   
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2014, 12:36:26 pm »

We here are (famous last words), high and dry.

However, some friends of ours who live on the edge of the marshes at Kirkby-in-Furness, on the Duddon Estuary, posted this photo (amongst others) on FB:



Their son also posted  a video taken after this where the water is inches from their front door.

That was yesterday and they've been quiet since.  Bit worried that the tide that night might have made it into the house.
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2014, 03:31:56 pm »

Hercules also been with us for a couple of days now...  :o

Yesterday this cargo boat, besides having is anchor down, almost got stranded ashore off (near) Cascais...

http://youtu.be/E9Hi4IIaGSc


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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2014, 03:55:59 pm »

 is this weather down to climate warming  or what
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2014, 04:37:21 pm »

is this weather down to climate warming  or what
Obvoiusly.... this is why there are several ships now iced in at the southern pole (in their summer). :-)
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2014, 05:43:57 pm »

Hercules also been with us for a couple of days now...  :o

Yesterday this cargo boat, besides having is anchor down, almost got stranded ashore off (near) Cascais...

http://youtu.be/E9Hi4IIaGSc


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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2014, 06:01:52 pm »

Just saw this photo on Lifeboats24-7 and posted by Mick, and shows what is left of the "pepper Pot at the end of the harbour wall at Portreath, after the storm..........but when you look at the wave behind it, you wonder how even the wall is still there............
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2014, 07:50:37 pm »

nearby this pier,is an island which is almost 80 feet high.The waves were ABOVE that.Safety fences were put up around the area,and people were climbing over them and ignoring advice not to,to get a better view. Absolute Idiots and that is being polite!


Never mind Gordon,your shed smelt before,you must stop eating food that gives you the wind! lol
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #20 on: January 07, 2014, 08:45:55 pm »

is this weather down to climate warming  or what


They have it worst in the USA.  It appears to be cold air being sucked down from the north pole. Our friends over there have never seen anything like it. The temperatures are a record breaking low.

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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2014, 09:42:29 pm »

As Stated above,the Island at Portreath,which is quite close to the pier,and is 80 feet high.
This is a photo of the waves yesterday (not taken by me ) and has NOT been enhanced
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2014, 09:53:07 pm »


They have it worst in the USA.  It appears to be cold air being sucked down from the north pole. Our friends over there have never seen anything like it. The temperatures are a record breaking low.

Ken

only what we suffered last year for 4 months, only a little worse..........s'pose we'll have to get used to it. {:-{ {:-{ {:-{
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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #23 on: January 07, 2014, 10:57:31 pm »


They have it worst in the USA.  It appears to be cold air being sucked down from the north pole. Our friends over there have never seen anything like it. The temperatures are a record breaking low.

Ken

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Re: Storm Damage
« Reply #24 on: January 08, 2014, 06:36:52 am »

Think you will all have to move north we have had some wind reaching gale force but it does not last and as for the flooding the sea level is difinately getting higher possibly due to the global warming.
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