Taken this morning about two and a half hours before high tide. If it
'stutters', let it download and try again.

I've heard that the road was closed later and that conditions on the sea
front were the worst for many years. We didn't bother to investigate!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24261494/Hburgh.mp4

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather

Alan White wrote:
Taken this morning about two and a half hours before high tide. If it
'stutters', let it download and try again.

I've heard that the road was closed later and that conditions on the
sea front were the worst for many years. We didn't bother to
investigate!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24261494/Hburgh.mp4

I see you (and quite a few others) completely ignored the advice
to stay away from the sea in such conditions.

And a good job too, if everybody did as they were told we'd
never get any interesting footage like this, let alone those
spectacular wave photos you sometimes see.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

In article ,
Col writes:
I see you (and quite a few others) completely ignored the advice
to stay away from the sea in such conditions.

I noticed on the one o'clock news that the BBC's reporters didn't seem
to think that the advice to stay away from the sea applied to
themselves. How much risk were they justified in exposing themselves and
their cameramen to in order to get good footage? Not much sign of an H&S
culture there, so Lawrence should have been pleased.
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Col writes:
I see you (and quite a few others) completely ignored the advice
to stay away from the sea in such conditions.

I noticed on the one o'clock news that the BBC's reporters didn't seem
to think that the advice to stay away from the sea applied to
themselves. How much risk were they justified in exposing themselves
and their cameramen to in order to get good footage? Not much sign of
an H&S culture there, so Lawrence should have been pleased.

Exactly.
On the 6 O'Clock News they made a rather sanctimonious comment
about somebody taking a snapshot of the sea, yet the person filming
him doing it was almost as close!
More than a little hypocrisy here I think.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 17:48:32 -0000, "Col"
wrote:

I see you (and quite a few others) completely ignored the advice
to stay away from the sea in such conditions.

It was a question of the sea staying away from us! It didn't.

The video barely captures the real event which was quite spectacular.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather

I see you (and quite a few others) completely ignored the advice
to stay away from the sea in such conditions.
And a good job too, if everybody did as they were told we'd
never get any interesting footage like this, let alone those
spectacular wave photos you sometimes see.

Col
Bolton, Lancashire

Sennen harbour an hour or so before high tide http://www.sennen-cove.com/today2.htm All boats removed from the slip.

Fistral Blue, the main cafe/bar/restaurant at Newquay's Fistral beach, has partially slipped into the sea (possibly more of it by now!) This is a building that has happily survived swells that have made the Cribbar http://www..newquaysurfer.org/2011/1...ibbar-30thoct/ world famous.

Please let the Watering Hole still be there!

Graham
Penzance

Its the main road to the naval base, know it well. Only other option is a long diversion, over the hills from Loch Lomond. I guess that diversion is okay at the moment, as it does close regularly with heavy snow.
Unfortunately, from the local news (in Devon), I hear a 18 year old lad has gone missing, after going out to take a few photos of the sea near Newton Ferrers in south Devon.
What a tragedy.

On 03/01/2014 19:29, Graham Easterling wrote:

I see you (and quite a few others) completely ignored the advice
to stay away from the sea in such conditions.
And a good job too, if everybody did as they were told we'd
never get any interesting footage like this, let alone those
spectacular wave photos you sometimes see.

Col
Bolton, Lancashire

Sennen harbour an hour or so before high tide http://www.sennen-cove.com/today2.htm All boats removed from the slip.

Fistral Blue, the main cafe/bar/restaurant at Newquay's Fistral beach, has partially slipped into the sea (possibly more of it by now!) This is a building that has happily survived swells that have made the Cribbar http://www.newquaysurfer.org/2011/12...ibbar-30thoct/ world famous.

Please let the Watering Hole still be there!


Why are the tides so high at this time of year (leaving aside the
weather effect) - I thought they were supposed to be highest around the
equinoxes?


--

Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

On 03/01/2014 18:30, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
Col writes:
I see you (and quite a few others) completely ignored the advice
to stay away from the sea in such conditions.

I noticed on the one o'clock news that the BBC's reporters didn't seem
to think that the advice to stay away from the sea applied to
themselves. How much risk were they justified in exposing themselves and
their cameramen to in order to get good footage? Not much sign of an H&S
culture there, so Lawrence should have been pleased.


Perhaps the reporters have more experience of how close they can get
without putting themselves at needless risk than the average member of
the public. It is part of their job after all to report on these events.

A bit like storm chasers in the US who criticize those who do the same
who are ignorant and take stupid risks, that doesn't make the storm
chasers hypocritical.

I don't think the advice to stay away from the sea in such conditions is
unreasonable, bearing in mind it is aimed at the public in general. It
is not exactly an essential activity to go and take photos and if people
get it wrong then it means the emergency services or the coastguard
having to put themselves at risk to bail them out.

On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 16:29:01 -0800 (PST), Ian H wrote:

Its the main road to the naval base,...

Only if you live in H'burgh.

If you're coming from, say, Glasgow. Most use the 'top' road from Loch
Lomondside to avoid H'burgh.

--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
By Loch Long, twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.co.uk/weather