Train tracks and bridges destroyed, towns flooded… it’s been going on for months. And the American media is strangely silent.
The largest wave ever seen in British waters was recorded at 3.30am yesterday by a buoy operated by the Plymouth Coastal Observatory at Porthleven, Cornwall.
The beast destroyed the previous record British wave of 67ft and forecasters warned it was only the beginning of 72 hours of storm hell.
It came as experts recommended a TSUNAMI warning system be installed in the Atlantic to protect Britain and Ireland from enormous waves they claimed were ‘increasingly likely’.The UK was battered by 90mph winds and torrential rain again overnight – but by far the most violent storm forecast in recent times is yet to hit with widespread damage and disruption expected in the coming days.
Parts of a key railway line were destroyed and nearly 10,000 homes were left without power as the brutal weather wreaked havoc yesterday.
Police helicopters were scrambled to help evacuate 150 properties in the Somerset flooding danger zone as David Cameron set up a £100million emergency fund to assist communities in coping with the crisis.
Winds of 105mph were recorded on the Isles of Scilly, off Cornwall while one pub in Chesil Beach, Dorset was completely submerged by a giant 60ft wave.
The latest storms saw Dawlish in Devon bear the brunt of the damage – with shocked locals claiming it felt like “the end of the world”.
Resident Robert Parker said: “It was like an earthquake.
“I’ve been in some terrible storms in the North Sea but last night was just a force of nature.”
Another local, Jeff Deacon, added: “This is surreal. I’ve never seen anything like this. There’s debris all over the road – it’s like a war zone.”
A 100ft stretch of seawall in the town collapsed into the swirling waters, leaving the railway line hanging in mid-air.
[…] Elsewhere in the UK it was a chillier picture as heavy snow hit Scotland. Glenshee Ski Centre in the southern Cairngorms was buried under 33ft snow drifts – six times deeper than the slopes at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Where is the voice of Prince Charles, noted environmentalist?
All the news that’s fit to print or to talk about, is brought to you by Big Oil, Big Coal and the Corporation for the Burning of Fossil Fuels. All funded by the Koch Brothers. “Yiipeee, we’re all gonna die.”
To be fair, I saw a piece on this on the CBS Evening News last week.
Did they link it to climate change?
Yeah, this is yesterday’s fish wrap. They live on an island what do they expect. The only way this’ll get on the news in the US is if Justin Beiber or one of the Kardashians got washed out to sea instead of a sightseer from Devon.
Fine report. The only word that needs some editing is in the phrase “…American media is strangely silent…”.
Nothing strange about it. Doesn’t fit the narrative the Koch Brothers and Big Fossil want projected. Therefore, the media owned by their brother corporations is, of course, silent.
Does anyone know what Hillary’s position is on global warming or climate change or the burning of fossil fuels? It’s becoming more and more obvious that all the wrong people are supporting the candidacy of Hillary. People like Bob Gates, David Petraeus, Big Oil, etc. When neo-con warmongers are a candidates biggest supporters it’s time for Progressives to head for the exits.
Chrriist! What happened to the driver of the car that fell into the ocean right at the beginning of that clip? !!
I get a lot of my news on the BBC, so I’ve been hearing about this. The Brits are no weaklings about weather. I’ll never forget a picture I saw of a soccer match where it was sleeting so hard it looked like the camera lens had been covered in vaseline. The reason it was in the news was not because they were playing. It was because they called off the game about half an hour later.
The “responsible” stance among politicians in the UK seems to be that we’ve got to plan for and adapt to climate change. Good luck with that.
The Brits have always been weaklings about their weather. The reason they created an empire was to be able to escape from rainy old England for sunnier climates whenever they wanted to. And to steal everybody else’s stuff.
I hear that Chris “Stronger Than The Storm” Christie has offered his services as recovery coordinator.
Iz, I must say your comment has a couple images working at cross purposes going through my mind at the same time. For some reason, I am thinking of the guy with a lance mounted on a steed in the old Ajax “stronger than dirt” commercials of 45-50 years ago.
But “storm” conjures up Bob Dylan and lyrics like “come in she said I’ll give you shelter from the storm”.
Which leads to some hybrid image of Chris Christie mounted on a steed riding off in New Jersey with his faithful page Bob Dylan singing as he goes.
Of course, that didn’t last long, as the steed died unfortunately given the terrible weight of Christie in armor.
That was bad enough, and the ASPCA is very upset. Even worse, Dylan was thinking of amping up. I hope they boo him out of this image.