This was a live streaming video i did showing the overtopping of the east beach shingle bank and the size of the massive waves hitting the shoreline on 2nd November 2023
Wow the many times I have visited west bay throughout my life I’ve never seen it like this. Mother Nature doing her thing, amazing footage thank you. I hope everyone stayed safe x
@@rockyquincey4203 Depends.....but remember its not drama, its just nature. It's not ya mum and ya don't know'er. You have a mum and you know her -hopefully.
Sure we,ve had bigger storms over the years!! Thats nature shs very powerfull!!dont mess with her!! Or else, dont build propertys by the beach, or water front!!😮😮
West Bay has always had a battle with protecting the beach but I don’t see complaining here. Appreciation of the power of nature . Although, with the increased extreme weather events, we should feel for those who would not have expected to be effected by coastal erosion & floods
Why don’t all the people filming get a spade and form a sand wall so the waves can’t get through you may have to renew it but you’ve got plenty of time that you would have spent video taping it
It looks to me like that beach was raised in height as a flood defence in recent history - those large rocks have been placed there and I assume covered in sand at one point... all a fairly typical Environment Agency type project. This storm was big but not outstanding. We already know these events are becoming more common too. And being in the industry I know even small drainage schemes look at the 1:100 yr event plus 40% for climate change. Coastal and dam works look at even higher returns usually (dams are 1:1000yr or PMF). It seems pretty obvious our schemes are no good for future weather events and will be outdone at some point. We probably cannot afford and would not want the size of defences needed in many coastal and river areas so that means we will slowly be cramming into areas away from water or on higher ground. We are also already seeing migration due to environmental conditions (parts of Pakistan now regularly exceed 50 degrees celcius) and other parts flood where they never used too. Crops can be wiped out by drought or flood... why are people so against Just Stop Oil and the like and so happy to pay £1.70 odd a litre for fuel that is adding to other costs and affecting our daily lives and health?
