Storm surge newquay, mawgan porth beach. March 10 2008 18:40

[jewell278]

Let's watch a storm surge from a low bridge.... Oh I'm being dragged away by it, it's the weather! Blame the weather lol... No it's population control.

[TheRadicalLiberal]

I stayed there for a weeks vacation when I was 12 years old in 1971. Great footage. I've never seen a storm surge all at once like that.

[TheFanta913]

i live just up the road t happend one time and nearly washed me out to sea

[Thepinup1]

this is my home village ive seen this happen may times, the reason the petrol station at the bottom of the hill is no longer a petrol station is because the fuel tanks kept getting flooded so they gave up selling salty petrol!!

[Olentzaro]

I have never experienced a storm surge like that before, but there was one that hit Galveston, Texas two weeks after I left there.

[ollienewquay]

oh no, was there ay footage of it?

[worgster231]

i was in that day for spring tide porth was big and took the mermaid inn's wall down lol

[beatbasher]

I think this video plays down the scale of what happned. It looks so tame on the vid but when you're stood on the beach you realise you wouldn't have stood a chance there

[BNPfightback]

I used to love this beach as a kid.Cant believe how violent it is

[ukburger]

Must of been scary to be near?

[ollienewquay]

yeah it was!

[chizzywoo]

oh wow. great footage. Dont go on the bridge!!

[jarnoshadow]

Thanks god, the cars where not there.. One stopped and the other was passed by :P

AWESOME!! :D

[ollienewquay]

yeah it was a close one..

[southbristolsfinest]

Thanks stuartold.  Now go take your head for a shit!

[intopiauk]

pretty insane... I missed it all didn't I. Get some more videos online ;)

[muddymullet]

proper scary

[voodoochilled1]

crazy! that reminds me of the tsunami in 2005on phuket

[ollienewquay]

really! you were there? it must have been scary

[voodoochilled1]

sorry. fortunately i wasnt, i worded that comment badly i just mean the news footage and all.

[southbristolsfinest]

I'm waiting for the big surge in the Bristol channel. Hopefully it will wipe out a few hundred welsh bastards. + i reckon my house will increase in value with a sea view.  Great vid.

[voodoochilled1]

yeah bring it on!

[StuartOld]

careful of what you wish for it just might happen...and it might even happen to you when yer in yer 'ouse.

[Bustthumb]

my friend and i were the two guys, involed with the mid bridge sprint check out our video..... hah aha ha ha aha ah

[ollienewquay]

crazy! well good, i catch u running and u were filming the same wave! good good!

[KauniKnife]

this is a great vidio i would never have thought that would happen at porth beach and it being that extream.

[ollienewquay]

this was at mawgan porth, just up the road from porth, it was bad at porth too, i was lucky to catch this freak wave on my mobile phone, if you look how high the bridge is at mawgan porth u`ll realise how big this surge was... breath taking to watch.

[lornapj83]

i cant belive it i always thought newquay would never have anything like that but looks like im wrong wishful thinking on my part oi think

[lornapj83]

omg i lived in newquay all me life so 23 1/2 years and ive never seen nothing like it is this the worst its ever been

[ollienewquay]

yeah it actually went over the entire bridge then floated a wooden building away down by the old garage... It narrowly missed washing people into the sea, you an see them running away just before it hits, there was a lucky van driver too!. Being there was even more intense