Storm damage

[ladyofastolat]

Today I found myself with an hour to kill on the south coast, in between storytimes, so stopped en route to look at some of the changes the recent weather has wrought. I couldn't get to the big things: the big cliff falls, the collapsed sea walls, and, worst of all, the stretch of main road - full of houses - that has half disappeared.

Here is the main car park in Freshwater Bay. Between it and the sea is a sea wall, a narrow esplanade, another wall, a large grass-covered mound, and a road. Clearly the sea surged right across it on Friday. They've clearly done a lot of clearing already and have got the road open again, but the car park is still rather messed up.






A few miles along the coast, another car park had been through the wars. I park here fairly often, so I probably parked in one of those dangling parking spaces just last year.



Here is Steephill Cove near Ventnor, considerably less shattered than it looked in pictures on the local website taken at the weekend, but still a bit wreckage-strewn.



I hope no-one was airborne on this skateboard when the gales came in:



No destruction here, but I liked the colours:

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

Oh boy, the island has definitely had it bad by the looks of it. Scary stuff - and now I'm wondering how much land Blackgang Chine has lost this year!

That last photo is gorgeous, which beach is it?

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

That's Ventnor, taken from just outside the Spyglass Inn, whose outdoor terrace is situated a little to the right of this picture, and is definitely one of the most scenic places to eat on the island.

I haven't heard about any fresh big falls at Blackgang, but that doesn't mean there haven't been any. The big one is the main road between Ventnor and Niton, where quite a few houses have been evacuated by the army, and the householders are unlikely to ever be allowed back. The entire town centre of Cowes was under two feet of water on Friday/Saturday, too, including all the shops.

[leesa_perrie]

Ventnor - must put that Inn on my 'to go to one day' list.

I feel bad for those home owners, though - that must be beyond terrible.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Yeah. A recently retired colleague moved house last year, and was considering buying one of the houses in the evacuated area. Fortunately for her, she went for one a few hundred yards away instead, and a little bit further inland.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Blimey! that must have left a mess.

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

That is some scary damage - houses and seawalls disappearing...

I think we may have escaped lightly - the storms ate about ten feet of the dune system and all the warning signs that "Naturists may be seen beyond this point".

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I hope it didn't also eat the naturists!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Meep!