Huge Storm Set Hits Ilfracombe Storm Pierrick - Large Waves Flooded Roads

Relatively flat seas up until 1am on Tuesday 9 April 2024, however the wind quickly turned North-west and tripled in strength to push in an already dangerously huge 10 meter spring tide creating some frantic seas and flooding car parks and roads.
Following quickly on the heels of Storm Kathleen, this second low pressure system Storm Pierrick was a named storm by Meteo-France which spun around and caught the far west of the UK.

[@Awake-Aware]

Thanks for the video.. I could watch that all day. Think you need to invest in some wellies though 👍🏻

[@InimitaPaul]

I lived in Ilfracombe for a few years back in the early 90’s, up on the hill in an old Victorian house and I loved when the storms came through. The power of nature has always been there for all to see in Ilfracombe, it’s an impressive sight to behold.

[@croiners4166]

Beautiful!❤ The power and majesty of mother nature!

[@ivanclarke2731]

This video is a joy to watch. I have lived in Ilfracombe all my life and never seen seas this BIG.

[@sandpit72]

Big seas on top of a large 10m tide, but just short of the all time record height since records began.

[@greghavers821]

magic!! thanks for this!!!!

[@barbiemortimer1322]

The poor wildlife that will have to deal with all the plastic and rubbish because people didn’t put the bins on higher ground 😢

[@David-ke2tx]

Nothing to do with the rubbish the storm is bringing in then Karen 😂😂😂

[@Dougtroutfisher.4046]

It's ok chill, it's blue bins, recycling paper cardboard...

[@cristinag.7420]

People are hit by a terible storm!

[@ohmymcmc]

Have you watched any ocean clean up vids 😩

[@maureenball6733]

Wonder if the calmed down water will leave the bins high and dry at water's edge, larger stuff might be retrievable then.

[@moiraschriek5650]

LOVE your video . Thank you for sharing i wish i could be there .

[@davidmuckle599]

The council should have removed those bins at the first notification that the storm was arriving. Some councils just have no brains to independent thinking.

[@simontay4851]

They look like bins for a private business, not houses. Not the councils fault, its the business owner's fault for not moving them. They knew the storm was coming.

[@neilingram6586]

Private business owners responsibility not the council

[@cpuuk]

Won't somebody think of the wheely-bins!

[@geoffwright9570]

Only the local council complaining about putting the wrong things ( sea water and sea weed ) in the wrong bins.

[@thebonsaiprojectkernow]

Beautiful bit of filming,i was at summerlease, bude just before sunset and git somee footage of the tide,nothing like this though

[@sandpit72]

Guessing Bude would be better on a westerly, always bad here on N-West or north winds which doesn't happen that often.

[@gabrielletanner5339]

I remember waves 30ft high in the sixties .....

[@grilnam9945]

They were probably only 15 feet, like me back in the sixties you were probably half the height you are now 😂

[@maxthecat14]

You were a bit close to the edge. Makes great viewing for us, but be careful you don't get blown over the cliff edge!!!!

[@john3Lee]

It's been good watching all that stormy weather whilst drinking tea, and eating a chocolate digestive biscuit - thanks

[@RobinPrice]

Very good vid. Well caught. Spashing in the puddles. 😆

[@sandpit72]

Always soaked, about time for some decent weather now

[@ianthornton4760]

Wonder what it was like at Putsburgh and croy.

[@malcolmbacon7892]

why not move the wheelie bins up the allyway

[@weepair2]

They need to heighten that area by a metre at least or you will worry about every high tide during a storm. Simples.

[@user-dw1gi1qn2g]

That will stop the dinghys

[@markgmurray9305]

Like a ripple check cape town

[@shanestewart4905]

Cape town is used to it, this place is not. Muppet.

[@andrearoyd2942]

Please confirm the time of filming.

[@sandpit72]

7am

[@andrearoyd2942]

@@sandpit72 wow... we thought it was morning. Thank you for these - we holiday in North Devon one week a month - Kindest regards. PS Been watching many, particularly the high tides overflowing at Barnstaple into the park. Keep dry !! x

[@scottsvxr]

Caused by the Solar Eclipse maybe?.....

[@melgrant7404]

​​@@andrearoyd2942Porth leven also got a battering. .

[@andrearoyd2942]

@@scottsvxr No, I doubt it, combination of extremely high 10 metre tide and weather systems. But these of Ilfracombe are by far the worst I've seen, and been watching for years.

[@user-ly3jr6bm6h]

Can’t believe they didn’t move the bins to higher ground. Must have known storm was coming!

[@johnnorth9355]

I guess my favourite chippy was closed ? 😞.

[@sandpit72]

At 7am yes

[@maureenball6733]

Hope no need for any lifeboat to go out in any of that. Those cars soaked in salt! And how relatively tranquil the harbour is compared to open sea.

[@Babadev03]

Nice afternoon for a stroll in the car park, but don't forget to take your shower gel with you hey?!! 😀 Ha ha.

[@jaiadixon7918]

Sad all that rubbish is going on the sea! Come on guys u live by the sea and can see the weather is predicting a storm ,please take some responsibility and move the bins!

[@maxthecat14]

@rantothon73 I doubt they meant him, probably the council.

[@simontay4851]

If i lived here, i would have moved them even if they were not mine. The sea wildlife doesn't care who moves them.

[@jaiadixon7918]

I meant who ever lives there or owns them could have moved them to a safer place knowing the storm was coming before they started to get dragged off-I didnt mean our camera man no,I don’t think it would be a good idea for anyone to try and move them whilst they are actually being dragged around by the sea and risk their life,bit late and too dangerous-but if I saw the potential before the storm started or was starting -even if I didn’t own them I would move them ,I don’t think there is actually anything wrong in moving someone else’s bin if your trying to save it or our oceans !

[@maxthecat14]

@@jaiadixon7918 Most of the big bins are not just bins though, they are dumpsters, and hard to move on your own. Also, ridiculous as it may seem, you could well get into trouble for moving council property .Household bins are a different kettle of fish.

[@jaiadixon7918]

@@maxthecat14 I’m going to write to north Devon council,bring this up with them ,it’s just not good enough to be letting rubbish get into the sea like that x

[@Samariapain]

The seas a lovely colour anyway

[@Samariapain]

Try throwing a piece of coal to it

[@Samariapain]

I think it's wood round our way

[@Samariapain]

Someone will remember

[@rthompson938]

Is it a labour run council as they knew the storm was coming and those bins should have been moved.

[@simontay4851]

Not the councils fault. They look like bins for a commercial business. The owner should have moved them.

[@_Shinasu]

Bon voyage rubbish bins

[@andrearoyd2942]

Thanks Got to be the worse on record !

[@_Shinasu]

I believe the highest waves in Cornwall were in 2014 at 22M or 75ft on the coast of Penzance or you have the 1 off the west coast of Scotland at 29.1M or 95 ft back in 2000

[@sarajoolae8197]

Not really Ilfracombe regularly gets the full force of atlantic storm systems and 10metre tides happening 12 or so times a year so no biggie with the latest events and just as regular is the attitudes to moving the bins (dumpsters) every time this happens. nature just being natural ❤❤. Great video Mr sandpit 👍 from me.

[@fredforsythe8310]

Remind me to never buy a car from this place.

[@delicacat]

Haha yeh I was thinking the same

[@amysrandomvlogs]

I don't care much about this unless people or animals are hurt then I do care but this is happening alot and summer is getting hotter and hotter I hate it... its getting to much now but we have no snow in winter Global warming is hitting bad

[@Diponty]

If they moved the bins to higher ground would you feel better about it?

[@navigator100group2]

Get a Grip. I hope you are not implying that there is anything extraordinary about a storm hitting the southwest coast. The only exceptional things are the ability to film it and the inability to remove council-mandated bins out of harm's way.

[@tidtidy4159]

Its what climate change looks like. Get used to it.

[@frankfrank6631]

The storm itself isn't that bad, its the combination of a storm and really big tides.

[@nonsequitor]

Get a grip on a backbone mate. I know it's scary, but we've understood our impact on climate and hence weather since before we named the Black Country. The only people dragging now are dead weight: cowards and traitors making money off it.

[@muscleprotein]

@@tidtidy4159just had my first dose of the climate change vaccine. I can already see the environment around me improving

[@rh2437]

aren’t you just a bundle of joy

[@pauldryburgh6346]

To think of all these Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion stnuc blocking roads and the rest, not a single one of them thought to save all that plastic going in the ocean. I have nothing but contempt for those twats but if that was by me, I'd make a fucking effort at least.

[@maxthecat14]

What would you do?

[@pauldryburgh6346]

@maxthecat14 Nothing currently as I'm learning to walk again after a life changing accident 8 months ago. If I was able, I'd make sure that where a high tide and storm was forecast, I'd be there to make sure wheelie bins and dumpsters were moved so they couldn't be washed away into the ocean. As to these nonsense protesters, I've lived nearly 45 years, never driven, don't even have a provisional, I don't have gas in my flat, I use 1 heater when it's actually cold here in Scotland. Don't have any kids, can count on 2 hands the amount of times I've flown. Commuted for a few jobs but walked to as many. I wasn't doing that intentionally, these idiot's forcing ideology should not only better that footprint but then convince us with a viable alternative. Everyone giving up a comfortable life is pie in the sky and wouldn't make a dent in the grand scheme.

[@maxthecat14]

@@pauldryburgh6346 Well even if you were well, you should not be moving dumpsters on your own.Too risky. i am giving the council the benefit of the doubt and saying that perhaps they had emptied them beforehand, ( although probably not) and anyway, how do you know any protest types live in the area? They can't magically appear. I used to support the protesters, as we need to do something about about the planet, but they lost me when they started getting in the way of people getting to work, and throwing dye on things. I know why they do it, it's because no one listens if you don't get noticed (who notices people with placards)? however, i think they need to rethink how they go about it. getting peoples back up does no good at all. After saying that though, I do have a kind of sneaky admiration that they are brave enough to do something, when I certainly am not. I hope your recovery goes well and you are back on your feet before too long. Take care.

[@nicks4934]

Climate chaos is here

[@Diponty]

Gravity is climate chaos?

[@jayr4857]

2 things, they are pretty tame waves, not even worth surfing on. And never ever buy a car from someone who lives in a coastal town. It will end in a rust bucket.