There are a few other photos of this storm on the Photo
Gallery page
The warnings of the storm of 26/27th October 2004, were well
heeded by local and foreign boats, here sheltering at the pier in
Castletownbere.
The road at Sandmount inundated by the unusually high, spring
tide driven by the easterly gales of 27th October 2004.
To think I was swimming in there only two weeks ago!
Actually I missed the really big ones - the Kit Kat syndrome? Haven't got used to the delay in
the shutter release in digital
cameras.
Come to think of it, where's me bloody mooring? (It was there, submerged - the
anchoring rope was too short for such a high tide and waves)
Looking towards the Hill and waiting for the postman.
The morning after the storm. The tide mark outside the Cametringane Hotel
looking across to the pier at Castletownbere. Although the spring tides were a
record high, there was little flooding in town or on the peninsula. We have a
geological advantage - being a narrow, mounted-spined peninsula - in our
drainage.
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