During the winter of 2013 / 2014 a series of storms lashed Aberystwyth seafront with huge waves causing massive damage.[ To use this video in a commercial player or broadcast, please email licensing@storyful.com ]
Unbelievably beautiful yet destructive I've been there many times but this footage shows the stunning power of wind and water Wow Great post and bet you got wet !
This is almost the viewpoint from the first place I lived: the first floor flat of 'Craglais' demolished a long time ago. The windowswould break with stones picked up off the beach and Mr Massin would come and fix them. Nice man: always gave me putty to play with.
allanfmarsden I think it would have been knocked down in the early 1970s. I have about 85 vivid memories of the place which is very unusual as we moved out when I was four and a half years old. The views of the sunsets were wonderful, especially if the porpoise were chasing the herring inshore. Here are a few: the day the army got a field gun stuck at the end of the prom pointing straight at the window (terror!); windows smashed by stones in storms (very frightening); the Wild Wild women which I think I mentioned already; 'improving the look of our living room' by hand printing coal dust all around the walls; the cooker going up in a whoosh of flames as my brother's plasticjeep ignited in the oven when Mam opened the door; the Old Lady Downstairs who a fortunteller had told when she was 15 would 'meet her death by water'; an Oar that I saw on the beach but which was claimed by Malcolm Carr - my best friend - with my Father taking Malcolm's side (I was very angry!); finding a cuttlefish bone on the beach which my Grandfather Smith identified for me; listening to 'Listen With Mother' on the BBC Home Service (before or after Womans' Hour ... I can't remember which); thinking that the Trolls would burst out of the fireplace at the crescendo of the Pier Ghynt Suite record; Uncle Elwyn (an honourary uncle and not family proper) who lived in a flat on the corner opposite the Cliff Railway; listening to a conversation between Mam and Mrs Humphrys while looking down on the town from Consti; placing all my toy cars on the mantlepiece of the fireplace in my bedroom to represent 'Oxford Street' (I still a have a few); fear that my cot was moving around the room when I had a throbbing head from the noise made by a loco whistle inside the loco shed (where my Mam had taken me to see the engines).... and banging my head hard on the underside of the sink having got lost trying to make my way to my parents' bedroom. 'What is the sink doing on the landing?' I asked myself all dazed and confused. Being frightened of the lampshade in my parents' bedroom which looked somehow very ominous and spooky to me.... the coal scuttle, ... Mam having to throw out a pan of peas she had boiled, because she had put Squeezy Washing Up Liquid into the water instead of Salt!... The peas turned the water into a kind of solid jelly. 'Silly Mammy!' I said. Peeing into my Dad's wind-up gramaphone player because it seemed like a good idea at the time.... sitting on a potty doing a poo as the porpoises did their leaping and larking about off-shore (placed next to my Brother who was also going about the same task on his potty!)....Dad's motorbike kept in the porch... Spanish onion sellers riding bicycles.... Chewing-off the crusts of uncut brown loaves (a favourite activity); sucking my Mam's chin as she held me on her arm while doing the Hovering.... Lots of things of no consequence to others but so vivvid to myself and plenty more like this...
@@allanfmarsden After we got married, we also lived in Cliff Terrace. The back garden was plagued by that weed which I think came from China originally. There’s just no getting rid of it!
@@stephensmith799 Do you mean the Japanese knotweed? It's up the hill from us, but hasn't got into the garden yet. Or is it the bindweed-like stuff which is strangling our holly biush?
@@allanfmarsden Yes, that’s it. It’s a real menace. I chopped away at it again and again but it kept coming back. It is powered enough to break up concrete if it gets a hold. I’m not a fan of systemic weed killers like Glyphosate but it has to worth a go on that horrible stuff. BTW our basement used to flood every now and again. It is quite a nice place to live but quite a long walk back from the shops. Fresh air too👍
I was sitting on that beach eating fish and chips and throwing bits of chips to the seagulls in July on a beautiful summers day, it's absolutely incredible to see the power of the sea like this, the spray is going over the top of the houses which are three if not four stories high. Christ, keep clear!
They evacuated the sea front that night, I went down to check it out ,and it was packed with other people watching and filming. We're right at the back of a large natural bay here, so, when a storm swell hits at high tide, this happens. Seen it a few times... but only a few.
Not unknown conditions. There was a tragic storm surge decades ago on the UK's East Coast that took many lives - and don't forget the infamous storm burst over Lynton and Lynmouth that also did much damage to life and property. But these were before the days of video phones, social media et al!
this was just before I visit there later that month for the uni open day, the hotel I original booked got flooded they had to move me 2 streets inward... but enjoyed the town anyway
If I were those 2 people getting that close, I would use my eyes, if the waves can rip up those paving slabs and just toss them about, I reckon I would think twice about being within range.
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Listen up I was Born with slight learning difficulties and mental health issues meaning I don't acknowledge clearly the full understanding of numbers some of you put in. Is it some time it happens. Only a guess. Like that wave at then the numbers go in and it ends with is beautiful.
that last one was like a tsunami. Rising sea levels in a warmer world, it's going to re-define our coastline! I think we need to follow the Dutch line, how they manage to keep the Netherlands dry when they are below sea-level. But it is going to cost money!
