Good grief! Worst storm surge in sixty years - pics and video

[malaise]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519311/The-homes-fell-sea-Beach-houses-destroyed-coastline-battered-huge-storm-surge.html

[madaboutharry]

1. That was very dramatic.

I always feel sad when I see homes destroyed like this.

[malaise]

3. Imagine watching your home disappear in minutes

Frightening

[Skittles]

2. I used to swim on Hemsby beach

I used to ride a double-decker with my grandma to go swimming there when I was a kid; yes indeed

[Sheepshank]

4. Looks like these are vacation cottages...but still, it's property and it's expenses.

I thought it was interesting to see a large number of wind turbines out in the water in the background of one of the pics. Generally those turbines are set where there is consistent and strong winds. Personally, that isn't the type of seaside home I think I would relishe...the Cold British climate and lots of winds doesn't seem like a great combo to me...but I understand that others may not feel the same.

[Shrike47]

5. Devastating.

Here in Oregon there is a bit of a history of houses falling onto the beach. Makes buying beachfront property kind of a gamble.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Here in Washington, we have a place called Washaway Beach...

It's been losing ground for decades.

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/coast/erosion/washaway.html

You can't mess with Mother Nature. She will win.

[polichick]

6. Good thing there's no climate change - just think what could happen?!

[malaise]

7. My thought precisely

Coastlines are getting hit everywhere

[Blue_In_AK]

16. True enough.

We have several villages in Western Alaska that are on the verge of collapse. It's very sad.

[jollyreaper2112]

8. there's no place you can't lose your home

But there are some places where it's more likely than others. You build in fire country, you risk burning. You build near the water, you risk getting flooded.

This ain't the US but when it happens here the same people who want help rebuilding are the first to criticize leeches taking public handouts.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Exactly the same reason too.

Low pressure area NE Scotland coinciding with spring tide aka Sods Law.

Fortunately both the UK and Holland learned from 1953. Check out Holland's flood barriers sometime - most sophisticated in the world.

[malaise]

11. I studied the Dutchone after Katrina

THey sure did learn

[GeorgeGist]

12. Fantastic ...

in a sad kinda way.

[malaise]

15. Scary - the good news is that

these are vacation homes so most would have been empty.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

13. The last picture

I was right there last year. In another Daily Mail article, there's a picture of the exact place I had a cup of tea at, blown away. There was a high sea wall in front of it as well.

[malaise]

14. Damn

Wow!