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Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 4,963
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December destruction
In common with other places, we've had some naughty weather here in the TZ.
This pic is of one of the "Churchill Barriers", built during WW2 to keep German submarines out of Scapa Flow naval base. They now carry the roads which link "my" island (South Ronaldsay) to the Orkney Mainland - i.e., we have to cross these every time we go to town.
Last week, the weather ripped the crash barriers right off the second of the four causeways, resulting in the police having to close the road altogether.
At high tide, the road surface is only about six feet above the water, and when things get wild, the water can shoot up forty feet or more. Cars get wrecked there quite frequently, and the local joke is that your car doesn't need an MoT - it needs a Certificate of Seaworthiness!
Snorri