We live close to Chesil Beach in Dorset so see this kind of thing every winter (not normally in summer!). Amazed to see the bloke above putting himself between the BMW and the sea wall - might easily have resulted in 2 broken legs. Also amazed to see the chap in the dark car turn up towards the end, sit there until his car got a good soaking, then drive off. What was that all about?
Couple of those who got their legs knocked out from under them were lucky not to be swept under a car and jammed ... would have got very unpleasant for them.
My mate lived on the seafront in Gardenstown and came out to go to work to find his mini bobbing about offshore ... they dragged it out with a digger but it was very unwell!
As we say here in the West Country, its silly season.. Summer comes along and the influx of grockles commences with all their associated stupidity.. In the last week there have been 3 incidents of grockles getting their cars stuck on West Country beaches because they thought it was ok to park there. The motorway between Bristol and Exeter is now like the Wild West, accident apon accident, if its clear enough to drive at 70 you are constantly being overtaken by 80% of the cars, plus cars towing single axle caravans!.. We have learned never use the motorway between Friday to Monday while the tourists are flocking in and out..
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Were across the water from Ilfracombe and although not hugely rough there were some very large swells coming over on Wednesday. My little fishing boat is out at the moment for some tlc and wont be going back in till next week. Not good for boats or Morgan's at the moment. Got to feel sorry for those on holiday with small kid's though walking about like drowned rats.....Em
Until 16 years ago, I used to work from Ilfracombe and park a work vehicle in that car park. It was very clearly signed that it flooded from time to time. Sometimes a board would warn of expected flooding (wind and tide conditions). The car owners will have almost wilfully ignored the warnings, I would speculate.
As others have commented, some of the people filmed have behaved very stupidly, or been extremely ignorant.
