If you can find someone who resided in Dawlish in 1810 they would tell you how floods took away 8 new bridges. It would probably have been the worst they had seen in their life time. 😮
Well yas got the good weather & high temps in the summer .Can't have the carrot without sometimes taking the stick .Look at other parts of the world lol that's nothing.
Looking back to when that sea defence was built, it looked quite insignificant, but seeing that volume of water taking excess onto the beach and safely missing the station, made it all make sense. Amazing footage, thanks for sharing.
An emergency only occurs when the infrastructure is not maintained, rivers not dredged, gullies and drains not cleared or repaired due to collapse. The managed decline of our country is to blame, not the weather.
An excellent, informative video. I visited Dawlish about two weeks ago and had a good look at the new sea wall and associated engineering work. I must admit I wondered when the first storm would occur and how would the wall cope. I didn’t think of an inland rain storm causing flooding in Dawlish.
Very nicely done and concise, having followed You for a long time with the 'wall' improvements, this story gave a detailed different angle on everything! What stands out is the height of the railway track, Brunel must have been aware we would louse up the planet way back then!!!
Thank you for posting this. Fact: it’s happened quite a few times before and worse than this. It’s a massive steep catchment and guaranteed to happen again. Think about this: Boscastle 230mm, Lynmouth, 229mm, Coverrack, 220mm. This event approximately 65mm !
It has happened before. The water has been up over that bridge, flooded the road and pavement in front of the businesses. I used to live in Dawlish and remember not being able to drive down into town.
wow! but great to see the new sea wall/stilling basin working as expected - be interesting to hear what the engineers who built it make of the weekend, and see if they are happy with how it performed. Given the history of Dawlish, it seems odd to see the trains running, and the town brought to a standstill. Not too many years ago, it would have been the other way around! :-D
@@ForbiddenPlanetB With people like Daviddm saturating SM with provocatively false hope; purposefully giving the layperson an excuse not to do anything, then what you suggest will likely become a certainty and much sooner.😥😡
Unbelievable i I was on holiday here last week ,me and my wife were sitting on one of these benches in glorious sunshine, just goes to show how quick the weather changes.
Thanks for the video, horrified to hear of the flooding in my favourite town of Dawlish. The pictures graphically showed the flash flooding. Sorry to hear that a number of businesses were affected. Interesting to note that the new sea defence works did their job, albeit not as anticipated. Stay safe.
I just want to say thank you for this great video! This is really good journalism, and you gave us the local news which was hard to find anywhere else.
Really good coverage of the flooding. Must be amazing to see when it gets in full flow. Sorry to hear some businesses got hit. At least no one was hurt. Amazing how powerful water can get.
All the "it must be climate change" sayers should look up The Lynmouth Flood Disaster" of 1952. This happened before Greta Thunberg and "climate change". I am not a denier, but these events are not new.
Hi Great video who would have thought flooring from the picturesque river not the sea Love Dawlish playing games back in the 80s at the amusement centre
We went past about Lunchtime, we came back through about 4.30pm road was shut had to go round the back of town. In 50 years never seen it this high before. Great video Cheers
I'm watching this video a few hours after the floods in Dawlish. It's just after midnight here in London and can see the lightning south of Croydon but don't hear any thunder, yet, but it's getting closer. It's going to be a loud, wet night.
What do you expect when town halls keep giving planning permision for more and more houses further up the river. The water will inevitably end up somewhere
I’m sorry, but I lived on Brunswick place and I’ve seen this a few times, I am going back to before 2001 when we moved out of Dawlish, I will say I don’t think I’ve seen it like this from rain water though.
The colour of the water is a give away as to why there’s a deluge when there’s heavy rain. The land upstream has been cultivated, so now instead of soaking into the ground it’s just run straight off taking soil with it.
Yup, my thoughts upon seeing the brook was "well there's a whole lot of soil that's not going to be feeding us in the future". Many people don't appreciate soil - they probably think that it's soil "all the way down" and not just the top layer.
I have vague memories from my childhood of flooding in north and south Devon in the 1950s. My grandparents lived in Exmouth and I recall the building of flood channels in the aftermath. They were natives of Exeter and floods were a fairly frequent occurrence they witnessed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The cloud seeding before the Lynmouth flood was denied until an airman reported that he was involved. The water that fell from Exmoor that evening was greater than the maximum discharge recorded on the Thames. A bridge on the East Lyn river was blocked by trees and then gave way. The flood down the combined Lyn rivers then occurred at night carrying away street lighting and subsequently housing.
The brook (not a major river) is a fairly shallow one and was very clear of silt as quite fast flowing normally, the flow was halted or slowed by high spring tides before the works completed. This was at low tide when it burst its banks due to sheer volume of water. Some Beavers should be introduced upstream to help control flows, natures water engineers and habitat managers.
Nothing to do with dredging, dredging can cause more problems. It's flood plain development, re-routing of flow and poor upland management. There is also just freak weather instances that just cause freak flooding. Especially after dry spells where the ground is hard.
Tree planting and soil management would be a more structured and managed approach than beavers ..who would take an intederminate time to alter . They arent as popular with farmers and introducing them takes planning and agreement. The river is in a steep valley and it is that which contributes in a major way to flash flooding as the 1950's River Lyn showed ..and the more major recent flah flood several years ago. ...its all about the Geography..and human sttlement in valleys near rivers. ..By the way you cant dredge on d bedrock.....
The overwhelming power of water in flood is awesome to watch and terrifying. I hope the business aren't too badly affected. I know only too well from personall experience the devistation it can cause, in 2009 & 2011 in Cockermouth.
My god, what a scene, hope everyone is safe! This is very dangerous situation, top drama, never underestimate 2 inches deep floods. Anyway, greatings from Derna, Libya.
Events like this happen from time to time.......look at the lynmouth flood in 1952,we had Braunton flood a few years ago,there are floods all over the country virtually every year.
The coastal towns of the area are often situated below higher ground ,so obviously if that ground receives massive rainfall the runoff is going to be through through the lower lying town .
The upper Medway does this in Tonbridge. Yalding gets hit with floods too. What you don't want is a very high tide preventing the water escaping out to sea.
Where the ice melts in heat, water gets up in evaporation. That gets high, heat rises, meets cold clouds and back down it comes. Not the same water, it’s all on the move.
@@williamrbuchanan4153 You have now failed your CSE in Geography twice, but have a grade 1 in Bullshittery. I expect your parents are proud of you. Try, English as a second language, next.
@@azillliasmith2734 The north polar ice is melting. The Southern polar ice grew initially due to greater precipitation (technically the Antarctic is a cold desert) because it was snowing more, but now its sea ice and ice shelves are melting. This is really bad because the Antarctic continental ice isn't already displacing sea water, so if its land glaciers melt there will be very rapid sea level rise, plus less ice means less light reflection. Less light reflection means more rapid warming , means more rapid melting, means a rather nasty negative feedback loop. Luckily humankind is onto this and we are all pulling together to avert the crisis. Oh look a unicorn!
Thanks for sharing this footage indeed. It doesn't happen only to Greece then; in Greece it is even worse though water has no where to go... It is so sad when it does though.. Poor swan.. PS. Love the quality you put on those videos.
Hopefully the town council will dredge the brook to remove years of mud and debris. Then being deeper it might contain the water. Lets hope the brook didnt back up because of the new sea wall works
I have many memories from my childhood decades ago from that place, it's a sad sight to see. I hope everyone is okay, and the ducklings all grown up and moved on?
There have always been flash floods in Devon and Cornwall with whole villages washed away in the past. Even Winner Street in Paignton gets flooded now and again.
Maybe something blocked the invert on that bottom bridge, but then the tide was coming in and that will cause a backfill. Once the invert on the bridge disappears though it simply becomes a dam. Maybe a wider bridge is required.
Rain from early hours Saturday morning and then storms over dartmoor most likely the cause. Exmouth and paignton train route flooded. Then Tiverton to Taunton. Even the steam at Minehead stopped becaue of flooding😊
Looking at the rain radar, and going by what we've just had on the Isle of Man, I think you're in for it again :( Looking again, I think it's Wales getting a soaking, I thought it was coming your way. Fingers crossed you avoid it.
Building on ancient river beds and floodplains, acres of block paving with no drains; as they are expensive to install, blocked culverts which councils don't have the finances to unblock, so expect this when a weather event like heavy rain occurs...
Amazing. I lived in Dawlish a few years back, in Plantation Terrace. I've seen the brook pretty high, but not that high. Lovely Devon red earth colour tho. Not so lovely for the businesses to get cleaned up.
Sinceramente... não chega a ser uma enchente, apenas uma trovoada de verão nada mais. Talvez isso quebre o tédio que é viver nessa comodidade, mas nada tragico. Ate logo!
WOW!! Great report from Dawlish. Love the town. Sadly, this type of event will be getting worse in the coming years - I feel sorry for those shops effected :(( Please keep up your ecxellent reporting... K.
Thanks for being able to report this flood and record the affect on Dawlish....
Good local news reporting - much better than TV.
If you can find someone who resided in Dawlish in 1810 they would tell you how floods took away 8 new bridges. It would probably have been the worst they had seen in their life time. 😮
I found one in a flooded graveyard. They had nothing to say.
🤌🤌@@stevekelly5166
@@stevekelly5166They died from drowning
1810? I was there at quarter past....
Well yas got the good weather & high temps in the summer .Can't have the carrot without sometimes taking the stick .Look at other parts of the world lol that's nothing.
Looking back to when that sea defence was built, it looked quite insignificant, but seeing that volume of water taking excess onto the beach and safely missing the station, made it all make sense. Amazing footage, thanks for sharing.
An emergency only occurs when the infrastructure is not maintained, rivers not dredged, gullies and drains not cleared or repaired due to collapse. The managed decline of our country is to blame, not the weather.
100% agree.
Well said/
Any yet we pay more every year for less maintenance
i was just saying that to someone in work yesterday 😂
@@zaffiqbal9740 We certainly do. The whole country is broken...purposely of course.
An excellent, informative video. I visited Dawlish about two weeks ago and had a good look at the new sea wall and associated engineering work. I must admit I wondered when the first storm would occur and how would the wall cope. I didn’t think of an inland rain storm causing flooding in Dawlish.
Hi Neil, i was there filming it when it was gushing over and through the viewing area on the sea wall. Awesome to see the power of the water. 😮
Very nicely done and concise, having followed You for a long time with the 'wall' improvements, this story gave a detailed different angle on everything! What stands out is the height of the railway track, Brunel must have been aware we would louse up the planet way back then!!!
Great footage 👍🏻 Hope nobody was injured especially the wildlife 🤔
Nah, I'm sure the freshwater fish & co. had a great time in the sea.
See the enviroment agency are doing a spiffing job.wasters.
Thank you for posting this. Fact: it’s happened quite a few times before and worse than this. It’s a massive steep catchment and guaranteed to happen again. Think about this: Boscastle 230mm, Lynmouth, 229mm, Coverrack, 220mm. This event approximately 65mm !
Thanks Coast Cams for the update.
All floods are caused by bad water management. Hiding the Water board in the Environment agency hasn't helped.
Sometimes there’s just too much rain to deal with. It’s like filling a bath tub with a fire hose
I thought everything was climate change? 😂
@@PickleThePig Don't forget "emergency"!
@@PickleThePig You are right; we have caused this by driving our cars. Must be a new tax in it somewhere; let's hope Khans watching.
You misspelled gravity
It has happened before. The water has been up over that bridge, flooded the road and pavement in front of the businesses. I used to live in Dawlish and remember not being able to drive down into town.
wow! but great to see the new sea wall/stilling basin working as expected - be interesting to hear what the engineers who built it make of the weekend, and see if they are happy with how it performed.
Given the history of Dawlish, it seems odd to see the trains running, and the town brought to a standstill. Not too many years ago, it would have been the other way around! :-D
The sea wall is a sea wall, not a brook wall. And the river overtopped so how do you think they would feel?🤪
@@ForbiddenPlanetB With people like Daviddm saturating SM with provocatively false hope; purposefully giving the layperson an excuse not to do anything, then what you suggest will likely become a certainty and much sooner.😥😡
Unbelievable! Thanks for posting this.
Amazing. Hope all the black swans are safe and sheltered
You build up along an ancient river bed and centuries later this happens 😮
All those years and no one thought of barriers or culverts
@@koalaeinstein-y7r Councils are thick as two planks in UK
The slow motion pics are awesome!
Unbelievable i I was on holiday here last week ,me and my wife were sitting on one of these benches in glorious sunshine, just goes to show how quick the weather changes.
Thanks for the video, horrified to hear of the flooding in my favourite town of Dawlish. The pictures graphically showed the flash flooding. Sorry to hear that a number of businesses were affected. Interesting to note that the new sea defence works did their job, albeit not as anticipated. Stay safe.
No worries india .morroco.and the rest will send help .pray to sunak.
Im guessing its no longer a mystery why Dawlish was built on a flood plain ......
Excellent footage, thank you! I hope all people and animals were unharmed. Nice to see the black swans were alright!
I just want to say thank you for this great video! This is really good journalism, and you gave us the local news which was hard to find anywhere else.
Nice to see the 'do not do this, do not do that' notices all survived!
As insane as that all is you have captured some great footage from the ground level and your drone. Thanks for sharing,stay safe
Thanks, great video. I hope things are back to normal soon.
Really good coverage of the flooding. Must be amazing to see when it gets in full flow. Sorry to hear some businesses got hit. At least no one was hurt. Amazing how powerful water can get.
Really good piece of work. Local news at its best!
Good job the sea was there to take the excess water.😊
All the "it must be climate change" sayers should look up The Lynmouth Flood Disaster" of 1952. This happened before Greta Thunberg and "climate change". I am not a denier, but these events are not new.
They're not new, but seem to be happening at an increasing rate.
Hi
Great video who would have thought flooring from the picturesque river not the sea
Love Dawlish playing games back in the 80s at the amusement centre
We went past about Lunchtime, we came back through about 4.30pm road was shut had to go round the back of town. In 50 years never seen it this high before.
Great video Cheers
I'm watching this video a few hours after the floods in Dawlish. It's just after midnight here in London and can see the lightning south of Croydon but don't hear any thunder, yet, but it's getting closer. It's going to be a loud, wet night.
What do you expect when town halls keep giving planning permision for more and more houses further up the river. The water will inevitably end up somewhere
To watch the waters rising and knowing that you are unable to do anything is frightening,,,,even terrifying
Calm down robot with your ",,,," try electrifying. You gotta shape up. Doo doo doo.
At least nobody is hurt...a beautiful town with beautiful views.. hope everything and everyone ends up safe.
That is much larger than what I would call a brook.
I would consider this to be a small river when not in flood.
Great photography, thank you.
Yes ,although it`s mostly hidden by the flood water you can see that the channel is for a greater amount of water than for a `brook`.
I moved to a house near a stream, until it flooded, for about 3 years afterwards everyone started calling it "the river"
Dreadful..
I hope everyone is safe..
😔
is greta thunberg due to speak in dawlish this weekend?
I’m sorry, but I lived on Brunswick place and I’ve seen this a few times, I am going back to before 2001 when we moved out of Dawlish, I will say I don’t think I’ve seen it like this from rain water though.
Why are you apologising?
The colour of the water is a give away as to why there’s a deluge when there’s heavy rain. The land upstream has been cultivated, so now instead of soaking into the ground it’s just run straight off taking soil with it.
Yup, my thoughts upon seeing the brook was "well there's a whole lot of soil that's not going to be feeding us in the future". Many people don't appreciate soil - they probably think that it's soil "all the way down" and not just the top layer.
Great video…as regular visitors to Dawlish we hope that the damage is minimised…good luck with the clean up.
Well there's plenty of DiNGY labour available. Who would be more than willing and grateful to help those that have helped them ? CORRECT?
Just wow. I was in Dawlish just a few weeks ago and it was so serene compared to this. Amazing difference.
Quite common for flooding in Devon and Cornawall around this time of year.
Great video (and commentary). I thought it was bad up here until I saw this!
I have vague memories from my childhood of flooding in north and south Devon in the 1950s. My grandparents lived in Exmouth and I recall the building of flood channels in the aftermath. They were natives of Exeter and floods were a fairly frequent occurrence they witnessed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The cloud seeding before the Lynmouth flood was denied until an airman reported that he was involved. The water that fell from Exmoor that evening was greater than the maximum discharge recorded on the Thames. A bridge on the East Lyn river was blocked by trees and then gave way. The flood down the combined Lyn rivers then occurred at night carrying away street lighting and subsequently housing.
That's what happens when the major Rivers aren't dredged for 20+ years !!
The brook (not a major river) is a fairly shallow one and was very clear of silt as quite fast flowing normally, the flow was halted or slowed by high spring tides before the works completed. This was at low tide when it burst its banks due to sheer volume of water. Some Beavers should be introduced upstream to help control flows, natures water engineers and habitat managers.
Brianjones - u r a plonker.
@@tonys1636they also block rivers.
Nothing to do with dredging, dredging can cause more problems. It's flood plain development, re-routing of flow and poor upland management. There is also just freak weather instances that just cause freak flooding. Especially after dry spells where the ground is hard.
Tree planting and soil management would be a more structured and managed approach than beavers ..who would take an intederminate time to alter .
They arent as popular with farmers and introducing them takes planning and agreement.
The river is in a steep valley and it is that which contributes in a major way to flash flooding as the 1950's River Lyn showed ..and the more major recent flah flood several years ago.
...its all about the Geography..and human sttlement in valleys near rivers.
..By the way you cant dredge on d
bedrock.....
Not the first time it’s happened, and sadly won’t be the last. Just a fact of living in devon🇬🇧
And in summer, too!! What a mess to clean up. I was in Dawlish in February and the brook was its normal gentle self...
Great work done to produce this video, thank you.
The overwhelming power of water in flood is awesome to watch and terrifying. I hope the business aren't too badly affected. I know only too well from personall experience the devistation it can cause, in 2009 & 2011 in Cockermouth.
That’s the first time I’ve seen a Black Swan event happen in real time.
Even the floods in England are polite. It stayed off the grass 😅
My god, what a scene, hope everyone is safe! This is very dangerous situation, top drama, never underestimate 2 inches deep floods. Anyway, greatings from Derna, Libya.
The West Somerset railway had flooding and a landside.
Unbelievable. We were there on friday, and it was a beautiful day. Hope nobody was injured, and such a shame to see that beautiful place like this.
Events like this happen from time to time.......look at the lynmouth flood in 1952,we had Braunton flood a few years ago,there are floods all over the country virtually every year.
The coastal towns of the area are often situated below higher ground ,so obviously if that ground receives massive rainfall the runoff is going to be through through the lower lying town .
Thanks for the update!
Lee was a massive Storm. Felt nearly 1k km inland. Hope everything settles there and people fend well despite.
The upper Medway does this in Tonbridge. Yalding gets hit with floods too. What you don't want is a very high tide preventing the water escaping out to sea.
I was in Paignton at the same time as this video was taken and I have never seen rain like it. 5 hours of the heaviest downpour ive ever seen.
Where the ice melts in heat, water gets up in evaporation. That gets high, heat rises, meets cold clouds and back down it comes. Not the same water, it’s all on the move.
@@williamrbuchanan4153 thought the ice cap was growing ?
@@williamrbuchanan4153 You have now failed your CSE in Geography twice, but have a grade 1 in Bullshittery. I expect your parents are proud of you. Try, English as a second language, next.
@@azillliasmith2734 The north polar ice is melting. The Southern polar ice grew initially due to greater precipitation (technically the Antarctic is a cold desert) because it was snowing more, but now its sea ice and ice shelves are melting. This is really bad because the Antarctic continental ice isn't already displacing sea water, so if its land glaciers melt there will be very rapid sea level rise, plus less ice means less light reflection. Less light reflection means more rapid warming , means more rapid melting, means a rather nasty negative feedback loop. Luckily humankind is onto this and we are all pulling together to avert the crisis. Oh look a unicorn!
Thanks for sharing this footage indeed. It doesn't happen only to Greece then; in Greece it is even worse though water has no where to go... It is so sad when it does though.. Poor swan.. PS. Love the quality you put on those videos.
Thank you for sharing.
Hopefully the town council will dredge the brook to remove years of mud and debris. Then being deeper it might contain the water. Lets hope the brook didnt back up because of the new sea wall works
Thank you for sharing 🕊️
You guys and gals stay safe down there,
Love from Brighton
Now just imagine what it was like for Derna in Libya when those two dams failed.
fantastic coverage there thank you 🙏
And i thought we'd had some rain in South Wales today!
sympathetic vibes from an ex hebden bridge resident....it will all recover!
My uncle recorded it earlier and sent it to me, I couldn’t believe it!
He actually recorded it? As oppose to just recording it?
Literally.
so very sad to see this. Will take a lot of clearing up. I hope that the Swans and other birds will be safe.
Thanks for a short, to the point, video.
Any footage of Teignmouth?
Get used to it.
This is the consequence of housing developments on greenfield land.
Remove the natural soak-away and the water finds another route....
It’s the consequence of huge quantities of rain. Rural land floods too given enough precipitation
WOW ... the power of water!
No problem today Plymouth to Paddington. Super job on line rebuild. Lovely bright pink sea from outflow though.
Great footage and quality. What camera do you use, please?
I have many memories from my childhood decades ago from that place, it's a sad sight to see.
I hope everyone is okay, and the ducklings all grown up and moved on?
Terrific reporting!
There have always been flash floods in Devon and Cornwall with whole villages washed away in the past. Even Winner Street in Paignton gets flooded now and again.
Beautuful Devon😢😢😢. Great coverage. 🙏🏻💞☘🌹
Maybe something blocked the invert on that bottom bridge, but then the tide was coming in and that will cause a backfill. Once the invert on the bridge disappears though it simply becomes a dam. Maybe a wider bridge is required.
Rain from early hours Saturday morning and then storms over dartmoor most likely the cause. Exmouth and paignton train route flooded. Then Tiverton to Taunton. Even the steam at Minehead stopped becaue of flooding😊
If people looked up at the sky more often then they would see the reason for all this rain
Helicopters?
A huge bucket?
I am so sorry for the people involved in this tragedy. I hope things come together for your good soon. Blessings, Oklahoma
Thank you be safe down there
I hope nobody was injured and businesses not too severely damaged
What's the camera you use - the 1000 FPS was impressive?
Holy Christ, Hope that no one was hurt and everyone get out of the path of this Torrent.
It’s September, I expect heavy rain every September because the air is still warm enough to hold lots of rain.
Looking at the rain radar, and going by what we've just had on the Isle of Man, I think you're in for it again :( Looking again, I think it's Wales getting a soaking, I thought it was coming your way. Fingers crossed you avoid it.
The more we concrete over the more this will happen. Save our Green Belts !
Building on ancient river beds and floodplains, acres of block paving with no drains; as they are expensive to install, blocked culverts which councils don't have the finances to unblock, so expect this when a weather event like heavy rain occurs...
Amazing. I lived in Dawlish a few years back, in Plantation Terrace. I've seen the brook pretty high, but not that high. Lovely Devon red earth colour tho. Not so lovely for the businesses to get cleaned up.
For those of use who have no idea why the water is that high, it would have been good to know more information.
Looks like a lot of top soil lost out to sea there.
makes a change to sewage I suppose
fantastic we need more flooding 👍🏻
Heavy rain runs down to the sea...amazing! 🤔
Sinceramente... não chega a ser uma enchente, apenas uma trovoada de verão nada mais. Talvez isso quebre o tédio que é viver nessa comodidade, mas nada tragico. Ate logo!
People I know got stuck in neighbouring villages and plenty of roads got shut down
@@Luna_YTok, just calm down and enjoy how our planet is alive
WOW!!
Great report from Dawlish.
Love the town.
Sadly, this type of event will be getting worse in the coming years - I feel sorry for those shops effected :((
Please keep up your ecxellent reporting...
K.
Wow!! Raining in Old Blighty...imagine my shock 😱😱😱