Surveying the Storm Damage

[FootLoose]

The breakwater used to be a solid line of concrete blocks. Now there are holes all along it.
June Storm '16 - Holes in Breakwater_M8A9037 by Foot Loose2012, on Flickr

And the safety railing has been ripped out
June Storm '16 - Holes in Breakwater_M8A9058 by Foot Loose2012, on Flickr

A hole in the wall
June Storm '16 - Holes in Breakwater_M8A9063 by Foot Loose2012, on Flickr

It takes some pretty powerful waves to toss these things about. This one used to be part of the wall.
June Storm '16 - Holes in Breakwater_M8A9068 by Foot Loose2012, on Flickr


Sea wall breached
June Storm '16_M8A8133 by Foot Loose2012, on Flickr


Last week there was about 20m of beach between the embankment and the water. And the gabions on the left were covered with vegetation.
June Storm '16_M8A8070 by Foot Loose2012, on Flickr

While some people sit in quiet contemplation of Nature's force
June Storm '16_M8A8905 by Foot Loose2012, on Flickr

Others want to return to normal and go for a swim
June Storm '16 - Returning to Normal_M8A9136 by Foot Loose2012, on Flickr

[rpcrowe]

Good documentation...

One cannot conceive of the force of an ocean storm until one has experienced it...

[Shadowman]

Amazing series, nicely captured.

[purplehaze]

Your storm shots gave me chills, Greg, as I just tonight watched the 60 Minutes report on the cargo ship that went down in Hurricane Joaquin and had the top two decks sheared off by the force of the waves. There is nothing more fearsome than Mother Nature and her anger is clearly mounting.

[IzzieK]

I still cannot understand why some people would rather go fishing and will jump at any opportunity to do so. Great! Good reportage, good composition too...

[Wavelength]

Going down the series, i really started liking the images more and more.... last two comes out to be the best for me

[FootLoose]

Thanks Richard, John, Janis, Izzie and Nandakumar.

Janis, it was pretty worrying lying in bed at night not being able to sleep because of the noise of the rain driving against the glass doors and windows. And then hearing on the radio that the areas of town were flooded and the police telling everyone to stay at home.

Izzie, Fishing, yes. That wall is unstable; it is roped off to the public now, but there were still people out there fishing again today. I guess we all have our crazy-mad passion in life.