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I moved to Looe in August. This is a beautiful area...lovely little town. I hope we get the flood defences soon..❤❤

My son learned to walk on the beach in Looe 46 years ago, his dad worked at the water treatment plant at Crownhill in Plymouth. We rented Trefrew on Barbican Hill, such lovely memories from that time. Regards from Ireland🤗

Trevor Harris POLICE TORQUAY TOTNES

It's ok. They are back on track...all open for business now..❤

cant wait till you join the fishes

Ironically it's probably the the side effects of electricity production which leads to events like this.

This is noting new! Just look at 1.00min into the video with the timbers which have been put alongside the wall for the fishing boats to lean on when the tide makes more than normal they don’t float over the wall..the fisherman all understand with local knowledge! Big spring tides and a bloody great big gale blowing up from the SW.. it’s the same in my little village of Pill, Somerset and we would get it worse than this until they built a tidal defence! The locals just got on with it but instead of it being lovely blue Cornish water it was mud and silt left behind. That still leaks but it does keep the water out the houses and pubs.

@@garysmith5025 weird, Looe has been flooding for nearly 500 years now and people are still paying top dollar for oceanfront property?

@@PillSharks thanks! I just find oceanfront cities fascinating, most likely because I've grown up in the Midwest US my entire life. The closet we have to oceanfront property is Lake Erie.

@@donniev8181 my little village has flooded for hundreds of years and my family have come from the same place for 500 plus years.. over the last few years we’ve had the outsiders move in as we like to call them. It’s amazing how quick they all become experts in the topic and start spouting crap about it being sea level rise! An area in the river near Pill is called Hung road where the ships would moor up before either going into Bristol or being unloaded on barges (I’m talking in the days of sail). The original mooring rings the Pill men would use are still there and they’ve all been set at the HW mark so even on the highest tide they can still be accessible.. also, a little bit of History as we have close ties with America and have the American monument as in the 1700s Methodist sailed from here to the Americas.. another nice part of our history you might like is many people think John Cabot and the Matthew left from Bristol in 1497 but the river would have been impossible to navigate on one tide so in all probability he would have left from my little village of Pill, Somerset! The Pilot was a pill man called George James Ray... 500 years of piloting all staring at Pill.. my old Dad has been up the St Lawrence seaway a few times as a British seaman so he will know the area well.

Love it too. I moved to Looe in August..👍

Yes, the morning is the highest tide. I think that's when the wind is at its highest too. It'll be half a metre lower but the added wind could make it even worse?

Kayak and snorkeling gear might be advisable too!

@@StreetZipsSZ 😂😂

nature takes no notice of bounderys. she will do as she wants ,when she wants there is no stopping her.

are we? we can't afford to maintain ones we have and the Tories are just burying their heads in the sand. around 800 defences that were needed in last weeks storm had failled due to lack of maintenance... costing millions in repairs!

My favourite place on earth 😊

A little piece of Paradise..❤🌴

The tide should be a lot lower by then, they're returning to neaps now. But it could still flood.

Fresh upload from earlier this evening. An epic night! New storm due this Wednesday I think?

@@StreetZipsSZ you should take your paddle board next time. But is it Babit? I am lost as to the current name Ciaran maybe?

A spring tide. Maybe made worse by the weather.

@@patchso it isn't spring. It was the tale end of the storm and a full moon.

@@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling Forgive me if you were joking, but a spring tide is nothing to do with the season. It's an extra high tide, and yes to do with the full moon.

yep several times over the years, the Bullers pub has flagstones just for these events.

Yes throughout my childhood in the 70s. Spring tides linked to stormy weather. Always the worst recipe for dear old Looe. Hope you all dry out soon and keep safe.

Yet a guy from the UN said a few months ago, the world is going to boil, really!!!

@@denisewarner8982 Technically, even though he was a complete _"wrist job"_ for saying it, he was right. The sun will firstly boil off the water and then the Earth will fry and burn up. But that's not for a few billion years when the sun expands as it dies and takes out all the smaller rock planets. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. So nothing to worry about just yet 8-))... _Unless, that is, you're planning to live for a very, very long time!_ ;-))...

​@@thezanzibarbarian5729less than a few billion years in about 600 million years humans won't be able to live on the planet

sadly this is the cost of liveing in flood plains and other low lieing areas.

I've been to Looe three times and two of them times it was flooded

The drains won't help, it's the high tide coming over, not rain

Mixed with sewage. It comes up through the drains too.

Last bit of the video was shot in Looe. I returned back that way after visiting Seaton. I've seen it go over the tracks before. That was the valentine's day storm.

A fair bit of flooding, but the new harbour gate did a great job at keeping the storm surge out. It was up the street as far as the chip shop and the water was level with Gina's art gallery windows.

Yes happens almost every year, nothing new for Looe or Seaton

Seaton in Cornwall

no they are not. don't please buy into the global warming nonsense.

Floods happen, this was a particularly high tide caused by the full moon. Lynmouth was flooded out in 1952, Boscastle in 2004, the Somerset Levels regularly flood as it's low lying land with inadequate drainage. When I was a teenager in the 1970s, the perceived wisdom was that the planet was entering a new ice age.

Also influenced by air pressure. High tide + full moon + low air pressure = higher water levels. Just research the east coast floods of 1953!

Deny, deny.

Yeah its pretty nasty stuff once the water hits the streets. It comes up through the drains as well as over the walls. Yet people go splashing in it as if they are at the beach..😅😂

Clown.

😂😆😂🤣🤓😅

You get this is one of our high spring tides over topping the harbour right? No amount of pumps is going to do diddly squat until the tide turns! It happens five or six times a year, not always this bad.. but that was because there where offshore sou’westerly winds at the time of high tide!