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[Doon frae Troon]

Getting a real battering from the weather at the moment.
Railway washed away at Dawlish....looks hellish.

Idiots out on the esplanades watching the waves.

 

[Twire]

Yep, Dawlish is just the other side of the estuary from me, and the idiots are on the esplanade in Exmouth just down the road.

The railway line at Dawlish has all but been washed away..... well the tacks are left suspended.

Oh and BTW it's in Devon

 

[Doon frae Troon]

OOPS.
Eldest daughter went to Exeter Uni as well.
There used to be a great pub on the hill overlooking Dawlish Warren that did superb Sunday roasts, happy days.

 

[cleanstrike]

Two waterfront restaurants down below Plymouth Hoe have suffered severe structural damage to their frontages today and the sea has taken over inside. Not sure if either of them can be saved. One is a Chinese restaurant called the 'Wet Wok' ... unfortunately ironic at the present time, eh!

 

[Canfordhacker]

We have a beach hut in Bournemouth, and when I popped over this morning on the way to work the sea was wilder than i have ever seen it there. Scary stuff.

 

[cleanstrike]

We have a beach hut in Bournemouth, and when I popped over this morning on the way to work the sea was wilder than i have ever seen it there. Scary stuff.

It may not be there by the time you're on your way home. Beach huts at Dawlish were reported washed away earlier today.

 

[SaintHacker]

The land has slipped under the track up here as well, between Botley and Eastleigh. Was talking to a driver about it earlier, reckons its going to be months until they can fix it!

 

[User20205]

It's ok I'm still here :thup:

Went to see a customer in swanage today. He got washed out by the sea at 11am

Fortunately he'd dried out the coffee machine by the time I rocked up

 

[Andy808]

It's been an interesting 24 hours down here in the thick if it.
Locally we have had power cuts of 5 or more hours in each end of the village which is on two seperate transformers.
Polzeath was flooded but not badly enough to make the news, waves were smashing up the rumps which looked amazing from the build we are working on, trees down on the way to work with sections of hedges blown across the roads, flooding on the roads to work that the van struggled with and the first job site I was on had a power cut at half 9 so I got sent to another site which had a power cut just after lunch.
Spoke to a friend who works for western power distribution about the power cut at one site as we could see the cables arching out on the pole. He asked if we had power, which we did, and he told us to call the emergency line when the power went off. He was close to our site on a call out and he popped in to see me and how bad the problem was incase there was a danger to life. He told us he got in from work at 4 in the morning and was back in the yard at 8. When he got there they had drafted in crews from south Wales, the midlands and the south east with the yard so full there were vans out on the road.
It's total chaos at the moment and it doesn't look good for the weekend either. Batten down the hatches, ride it out and see what's left when the weather eventually gets better in, maybe, June!

 

[Slime]

Getting a real battering from the weather at the moment.
Railway washed away at Dawlish....looks hellish.

Idiots out on the esplanades watching the waves.

And that includes the bloody stupid, hypocritical TV reporters.


Slime.

 

[Andy808]

This has been posted on Facebook.
http://magicseaweed.com/news/atlantic-strike-four-incoming/6057/

Oh joy we have more to look forward to.