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- Again we see Pilton Park doing what it does in taking a huge amount of water off the River Yeo at critical moments, therefore protecting nearby heavily populated areas from flooding.
This is by far the largest and quickest surge yet with a powerful 10.2m tide up on the coast and a night of heavy rain backing up river levels, although the tidal water levels are reduced this far inland. At the end a short look at the nearby River Taw which also saw extremely high levels flooding out a van and a large amount of debris.
For anyone wanting to see more of this river in a 'normal' tidal state, here is a summer boat trip along it, • Dinghy Explore North D... 14.38 is the filming position of the surge.
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Wait wait wait. Soooo the thumbnail isn’t click bait? A dream come true!
THANK.
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@Trooper6190 I don't do clickbait and I don't do fake thumbnails, I know its a way to easy money for some, but I don't feel comfortable with it.
@@sandpit72 I appreciate your efforts to remain genuine. It was an interesting video to watch with clear narration about what was happening. Thanks!
Uh can you please include in description on where in the world this is?
@koharumi1 it’s in the description already. Pilton park, Barnstaple and a quick Google search puts it in North Devon, UK
@@sandpit72 bless ya mate
It’s nice to see the water going home after spending a day in the park
No silly comments, no heavy breathing, no zoom in/out nonsense, no portrait mode.
Great footage.
Yes !! I just commented similar then saw your comment ! ❤
And no music!
ungar 😢
Fully agree.
Great viewing point too,
On the footbridge.
No OH MY GAD!
I thought the bank was remarkably well designed.
When it was over-topped and torrents of water flowed over it, it held firm.
The shape of the bank enabled the water to flow smoothly, without damaging the bank itself. The engineers deserve applause, I think.
The bank may have been excellently designed many years ago, but with little concern for sea level rises, which will cause ever greater spring and king tides. Imagine another 100 mm of seawater within a decade, and so on!
It's build to flood there it had done for hundreds of years
The grass did an excellent job of protecting the river banks in the park from eroding! 👌 Interesting video, thanks.
Grass like crops are often grown by farmers to stop the water washing the soil away and keeping the goodness in.
My thoughts as well.
It’s crazy that there’s not a concrete weir for this!
There is a reason most levys ate made of grass@@phil_p
Sub-station can be switched off. Warn the National Grid people.
That park might have saved some things.............
That's exactly how the Dutch have designed their river waterways after some near serious issues decades ago, freed up masses amounts of space for rivers to overflow and take the strain off.
It worked well with 2023 high water levels on mainland europe.
Constricting rivers simply will not work and increasingly are a disaster waiting to happen.
True, but we (the Dutch) haven't really learned from that, I'm afraid.
Councils are looking for land to build housing estates, and rather than having one farmer less (about 50000 farmers own 52% of all landmass in the Netherlands) they're still proposing building houses exactly within those same floodplains...
Which always leads to lengthy protests and legal battles.
Which, in turn, goes a very long way to explain why nothing ever gets done or built anymore, over here.
Only, this is sea water. Salty.
The vegetation, cars, houses won't like all that salt.
It’s a floodcell, doing it’s work.
@@xFD2xThe sea made them rich enough to accept this. Everything you see here is planned for. People know this will happen every so often. A few days later verything is clean again.
@@noeraldinkabam
A flood cell helps when its volume is big in comparison to the source the high water.
Here the source is the sea. So it won't work as a flood cell.
Tell me about it, Ashford in Kent, the council has allowed 3 large housing estates to be built on flood plains. Complete madness consequently they flood 😮
You realise this video is specifically about an exceptionally large spring tide, and not about river flooding in general don't you? Neaps and springs, yeah?
It could even be that they deliberately set the flood defence just right so this park acts as a shock absorber during extreme tides to help protect the town, and if so not a great example of what you're talking about.
This park is not a 'flood plain' in isolation. Barnstaple was built a long time ago and is near the sea. This is a maritime event.
🤣 it’s designed to flood 🤣
It floods regularly when it rains a lot because Barnstaple is surrounded by hills and when the freshwater water meets the incoming tide it has to go somewhere so they built the park to take the access water.
The whole of Barnstaple town centre is only feet away from the top of the water when the tides high.
Obviously it’s spring tide season and there’s been a lot of rain so there’s a little more water around at the minute.
@@artgreen6915the area I live in is a floodplain. They built all of the parks submersed like this one. They are large long parks that eventually lead to creeks that lead to the local river. When we get flash flooding these parks fill with water just like this park. It is amazing to watch. Our area is an old subdivision from 20-30 years ago now. All of the new subdivision are built on the same flood plains, no submerged parks and as a result they flood regularly.
There is just not enough safe places to build on, and world population is rising as fast as ever, so...
Where I live they are building new housings everywhere since 2019, it's just crazy... and they keep pushing for immigration, so the prices won't even go down, since demand is growing...
@@artgreen6915 You do REALISE you can be flooded by the sea too..! Guess you didn't know how flood planes work,eh. Flood don't always mean fresh water.👍
Great footage. Well filmed . Steady and calm camera action. So many clips are poorly filmed so well done.
Yeah, they usually point the camera at their teeth and yap about what they are seeing!
@@dancarter482 Or swing it about left to right, up and down, and make you seasick!
@@jeanrobinson705 _OMG_ Tell me about it!
@@jeanrobinson705Lord yes! I get this to the point of having to stop watching. This was a treat. ( and the sound of the water , as I can’t get outside anymore 👍🏻)
The person with the brolly walking up, staring at the torrent then noped and hurried back :D
Great footage, thanks for sharing!
It was a good decision. don't you think?
@@mikeoglen6848 Very much so!
@Tuberuser187 Good comment, I was curious to see what would happen as he approached, he made the right decision eventually and took the much longer route.
Amazing footage but completely bonkers!
@@sandpit72 More than a few poor sods have thought it was safe to walk/drive in a flood and then got sucked into a manhole or washed away, best to stay away if you have no high ground.
This is why flood plains are so important
You mean lack of drainage, no river dredging and poor land management all dressed up in some fake environmental policy. Is that what you mean?
Would love to see a follow up on this at how quickly or slowly the water gets away of the park..
Yeah I was wondering this, do they have to pump it out into the river?
If it's anything like the parks and fields in Yorkshire, it could be several weeks before everything gets back to normal. We tend to just let nature do its thing.
Superb Knowledge of tides and local area to produce stunning Video thanks
Tide tables are a great invention!!
This is incredible! Within 30 mins the flooded park is the the same level as the river! Brilliant timing to film here.
This video makes me extremely grateful that i live on top of a hill. I do feel extremely sorry for people who do get flooded tho. Its heartbreaking😢
I thought that till I did some flood warden training. Ground water can still be a problem.
@@curlysue3620completely different reasons and process in most cases though.
This is specific flood relief. It's designed to fill up.
@@thornerg2 Not the parts with the buildings it isn't.... like the electric substation should be nowhere near it.
Great Vid. I was born in Barnstable and although I’ve seen the park flooded, I’ve never seen it flooding. Keep up the good work.
This is incredible, you caught this just bang on! It's amazing how much so fast it can build up, that's a LOT of water!
Also just to add, the UK has been hit with a huge amount of rain 🌧
Most of 2023, and the start of 2024 it's relentless. Highest on record ever! I think this is only the start of things to come.
Yep, rainfall in the UK has been slowly increasing since the 1970s. We also get more of our rain in heavy downpours than we used to. At a time we should have been planning for flooding, we built houses all over flood plains instead.
Global boiling?
Can't wait for the BBC to tell us we did it.
Yeah, weather is so unpredictable ! 3 years ago we had a summer with hardly any rain - a super time to build a house ! I want to build my house this year, not started yet. The rain over the past 6 months has been relentless !
Is this salt water? You say "tidal" and then the tide turns and flows out, but doesn't that kill all the plants -especially the trees? Then comments are talking about channeling tivers, so I'm a bit puzzled here. Which is it - sea water or river water?
Great video with good comments. Well planned observation points.
That entire park is a retention pond! Interesting engineering 👍🏼
That's a great video. Perfect timing to be on site. It just goes to show how devastating and fast, a flooding event can be. I hope that all domestic and business property was not severely affected. Fascinating to watch, but deadly to be caught up in. I feel for the owner of that lovely red van.....hopefully no major damage done.
Where I live, the river is very well controlled by the local flood barrier, but even so, controlled release onto farm land and school fields near my home, to protect the town further down stream, mean I have been able to canoe 'across country' from close to my home, pretty much all the way to the town, about a mile away!
Thanks for posting.
I spoke to the owner of the red van, she was obviously fairly upset & had no idea the tide would hit, I advised that if she couldn't move it then get it towed out ASAP as another tide would strike at 7pm and another huge tide the following morning. When I came past again at 5pm it was still in its original position, so I've no idea what happened.
@@sandpit72 Well, you did the best you could! Well done you.
@@sandpit72 where is pilton park located
@@KevinLyons-gn7eu are you illiterate it says Barnstaple the very next word
That was a very interesting and complete overview of the effect of the tidal system. Thanks for filming that and sharing it.
March equinox tides + months of rain. Pretty amazing when you see the speed of the tide inland.
Yes amein. That is why we keep the barley feast of the Lord, right on time.
Great video chap. Thanks for sharing your perfectly shot and framed video of this.
Amazing how the most flood resilient substance known to man is ….. grass!
and motorists want the country covered in tarmac
Similar happened in our local park last year.It was situated right by the river as well.The day after, the council clean up team came in to remove the detritu of twigs,grass,mud-all natural.It took them two days,carefully scooping it up,putting into wheelbarrows which they then tipped back into the river.I commented to one that,since it was all going back in the river anyway,a couple of fire engines with high pressure hoses would have the work done in a fraction of the time and they admitted the bosses hadn't thought of that!
I was born in Pilton Street. Was good to see what some parts of Barnstaple look like now 😊
Nature is amazing and terrifying at the same time
I used to work as a lockkeeper in a tidal area. The sheer power and speed of the tide were always fascinating to watch as it forced all of the gates open
Thank you for recording this phenomena!
Incredible thanks for sharing. I’d have never believed it.
Nice to see that waste left behind was mostly natural and not plastic upon plastic.
Wow . What an amazing video. Never seen anything like it before. I could of watched it for hours start till finish. Thank you for film
Very good video. Same here in the Pendle area of North West England. Everyday when I was driving to work the fields at the side of the A59 were wet and soggy for YEARS. Sheep were never seen on these fields, nothing. But guess what, houses have been and are being built. Where I live houses have been built on farmland that always had reeds growing on it. Sheep were on there sometimes. At the bottom of these fields it has been soggy for at least 50 years because we used to play in that area as children. Now it's all being dug up and there are ponds of water that they are filling in with some grey type of bashed up stone. Water will find a way to rise up that! So many houses being built in what was beautiful scenery. You get on the bus to Rawtenstall and where you once looked out to farmland, cows, sheep, horses, lapwings etc. you see houses rising up. There is a hill that you cannot even see from the road. The whole landscape is being ruined. But the Council allow their rich building friends to continue to build, build, build, bbb. Looks like 666. These will be on the market in no time. Utterly stupid decisions. 👍🤔
On the other hand, people need to live in houses. Unless you’re simply anti human.
@@Emslander You're choosing to wildly misunderstand the main point, because you want to. There are places you can build houses that ARE NOT ON FLOOD PLAINS. Brownfield sites, especially - but they cost more to restore and repair, and all that matters in Britain's housing market is cost and profit. Building on flood plains is obvious idiocy, but doing it when climate change is causing us to get more rainfall, and especially more intense storms, is insanity.
@@gordon1545totally agree with you there are brownfield sights literally everywhere yet they build on flood land and destroy our green belt too
Same here in sussex. So many beautiful placed ruined by cheap papermache houses
unfortunately people will rent and buy these properties, and people keep popping out kids, unfortuantely have an over population crisis and no control, people can have as many kids as they like.
Thank you for sharing. This is absolutely crazy, but it goes to show that happens with certain types of tides etc. 🙂🙂
Great video, thanks for staying and filming the entire thing.
Brilliantly filmed.
Great vantage point on that metal footbridge.
🙌
this park was always the same back in the 80s i have seen this alot nice to see it still doing the same things after all these years great video we never had phones back then lol and where the red van is in the water used to fish there great when the tide came in we used to sit on the railings water all around us good old days
Great footage , well done and thanks for standing out in the cold to show us all .
Whew that is a sight to see good job that park is there to offset some of the water. Well filmed. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing video, thank you.
We have places in London like this, for example the parkland around the Thames Barrier, they are deliberately low lying to catch overflows. I wonder if this is the same idea.
Edit: I read the description, yes it is.
Excellent video 👍
Great video and local insight - thank you. Now consider even a 0.5m sea level rise scenario and the difference to the surrounding properties.
Wow, I can't believe how fast that happened... great video...
Never under estimate the power of water 💧, you sure were in the right place at the right time .
Best wishes Simon and Beth ❤️ 👋
Great bit of live reporting! Thanks for putting this together
I work next to the river in Marlow. According to an old friend the sports club and all the surrounding houses was a floodplain/marshland when he was a kid. Every winter it floods, sewage drains fail etc. Too many people on this earth
Very well captured
Thanks bud. I grew up on Frankmarsh and walked past that park every day on my way to Chaddy. You jogged an old mans memories but there are a hell of a lot of buildings I don't recognise. Looks like a whole new (to me) estate on the site of Shappland and Petters.
There is although the derelict Shappy buildings are still there
Imagine what happens to houses built on flood plains...
Even worse imagine flood plains built on houses
no thanks.
This
I'm sure all those bribes the developers pay to the local councillors will make them flood resilient
This is a very high tide. Don’t build between high and low tide marks and all will be well.
Fantastic and interesting video.
Amazing to watch. Thank you.
what an amazing video from our man on the spot! Thanks for bringing this to us
It's designed to do this though, our rivers have had a massive tide this spring, lots of rain down here
Great video. Unbelievable. Im in Blackpool and the high tide was coming over the top ...
Wow, that's amazing, the power of water is just amusing to watch 😮
Oooo that's bad! The power and inevitability of water never ceases to amaze me. That lil red van is going to have some muddy floors, I think.
How long does it take for all that water to drain away from the park?
superb!! thanks for this!!!!
How long does it take for the park to drain out again?
surprised the canoes didnt take advantage of the park lake. great post thanks you
very well covered 2 fold - reporting and river management.
Great bit of footage! Thanks for sharing.
To someone who lives in the Mojave Desert, this looks marvelous!
Great vid, I like how the park is used as a way to hold water during these peaks and hasn't been built on, helps relieve any flooding. My question is how does the park then subsequently empty, is it lower than low tide water level? Is there a one way valve for it to drain away? Or is it left to just soak away?
Drainage takes the water out to the sea, so as soon as the tide level is low enough it will all go back where it came from.
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@@profsakharov1191how odd, there is a steep ridge the water came down so how does it go back up as its no longer tidal if its in the field I assume?
@@Janz32 It will just drain away as rain water does on any other day. Otherwise the park would be a permanent lake.
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It’s amazing how people don’t know any of this …l.
Yea, not knowing where in the world you are from so I will try to explain. In most of the UK we have two lots of pipes. One is to take sewage to be treated, the other is drains along roads and paths and so on. The water that enters these drains enters our waterways and eventually makes its way to sea.
Amazing vid. Thanks for posting !
Perfect example of the park doing exactly what it was designed to do! Great timing of your video, thank you :)
Thank you for sharing, that was a lot of water
Nice video! I live in the Saunton area and it is always flooded in the back roads near heanton..
thank you for sharing - what was the time span for the flood and then the retreat?
Really interesting video. Thanks for filming/sharing.
Imagine all the water company effluent that's now in that park. Quality video, chap.
Nicely done, ❤
Well you got yourself a new boating pool! Every cloud etc 😊
I'm surprised there is no one with a paddleboard, or kayak...
Great footage, thank you!
The power of water is amazing.. older generations understood it and worked with it. Todays generation don't seem to care... i'm watching a developer build multiple houses in a flood area next to the sea where the previous contruction of houses came to a stop because of tidal flooding..🙄 get them built and sold before the next high tide and let the new owners try and deal with it🤔🥴 money money money... great video, thank you❤
I think the owners have responsibility for choosing to buy it. They are probably people who are eternal optimiists, religious people who think god will protect them
@@beaulieuc8910, many buyers are just too naive to look around and ask the right questions..
The insurance companies are left to be the adults in the room. If the flood risk is too high, they won't insure them. The government will step in to help if the home was built before 2009, but new builds at high risk of flooding are completely uninsurable. Hopefully, people check that before they buy them...
@@thomasdalton1508, is that Ireland or the UK?
@@magpie6648 Barnstaple is in the UK...
The sound is crazy! The grass has stand up with the stream of water, incredible! Is that salty or rain water ?
Great video, thanks
Great video capturing things as they happened. Funny how others like the local council, power company, etc seemed to not know it was coming and take any precautions.
How can they take precautions since it has been their regulations that has stopped river dredging, land drainage management and much more.
That looks like a nice spot for a possible surf! Maybe with a rope at first but getting up on that standing wave might be possible too!?
Great video!!! 😎 Glad this was recommended
great video, are there drains for the water to get back to the sea
I'm just impressed at how the grass just denied the river any chance at eroding away the banks.
Trees and other plants provide the same function, which is why a healthy ecosystem is so important for us :)
Epic video 👏🤛
thats some CRAZY amount of water in 30 mins!
i cant believe how its level with the mound it was coming in over in just 30 mins ago? lol. crazy buddy. hey if possible show the wall in the next video that helps to holds that amount of water in that play field. as it would be interesting. thank for sharing!👍
I like to step back in time before people moved in and see the tide at it's natural flow and flood.
An extraordinary sight.
Super interesting video..
Absolutely extraordinary. Are there warning signs? It is a tidal surge.
Is the spill fresh water from the river end or salt water from the sea?(Hope this isn't a stupid question.)
Looks cool but 3 questions is that a normal river that just birsts its banks and number 2 does it all just run into the field and stay there untill the ground absorbs it all.
Love watching but its scary really thanks for sharing
Excellent filming.
How the guy got the Red van out before the water got into the cabin and exhaust
Ejoyed this well filmed video very informative keep up good work
When was this filmed? I totally missed the tide being this high recently
Amazing nature at its finest
Its interesting that the section that flooded first was the section with the treestump. I know the rest of the sections end up flooding as well and they have trees and there are a lot of other factors probably in play here. But its definitely interesting that the bit that gave way first no longer had an active tree helping to provide structure and water uptake.
@@monk3yboy69you are both correct, the bank was lowest by the stumps, because the ground sank as the roots rotted.
Fascinating stuff, thankyou.
I hope the burger van that sits in the corner of the park was ok! 😁 How long does it take for the park to drain again after one of these tides?
Good vid.. good job the the weather was calm too…👍