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SBC Versus Mother Nature
Here’s what happened when Scarborough Borough Council decided to go head to head with nature for the third year running by putting the Whitby beach huts / chalets out before the spring equinox high tides.
To put this into context for those who dont understand the sea. The tides around the equinox are extremely high, there is also the uncanny coincidence (It really happens far too often for it to be coincidence) for gale force northerly winds and huge swells to accompany the equinox tides.
Here is the results photographed by Whitby’s Tom Brodrick. Please click thumbnails for full size images.
14 Responses to SBC Versus Mother Nature
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Whitby Warrior
September 12, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Who are the idiots who make these decisions ? They want sacking for costing the tax payers a lot of money. It made me laugh in the gazette last week when the council said they had delayed the east pier repairs untill now to get the best weather so they could work for 15 weeks flat out with no disruptions. Has no-boddy told these fools that the autumn is the worst period for rough seas around whitby ? Here we are nearing the Autumn equinox and we get the biggest south easterly swells for 10 years and not a work man in sight ? It will take the fools 300 weeks not 15.
SBC BASHERS ?
September 13, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Is this site here just to bash scarborough council, or does it serve some other business too ??
Tom
September 14, 2010 at 5:31 pm
I guess the site serves what news, stories and photographs people post.
So why not post something.
admin
September 14, 2010 at 6:35 pm
I agree Tom. We will post almost anything Whitby related on this site, so long as its not illegal or defamatory against a person.
Have a look here : http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/about-2
If you have anything for the site please please please send it in, it doesnt have to be political.
Toby Jones
September 13, 2010 at 10:21 pm
How much has this cost the tax payers in Whitby
Frank Chalmers
September 14, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Toby… You have to remember that Filey and Scarborough all pay into the pot too. We're all paying these morons to waste our money.
The question is, what are we doing about it? I hear that this Nigel Ward fellow and his friends are doing something, and I'm about to get on board too. I want them to know I'm really not happy at this wastage in "our name". It's wrong and must stop now.
SBC Bashers ?
September 14, 2010 at 6:38 pm
But the site just seems to be about Scarborough Borough Council. How about changing the record Tom Brodrick. Have you anything interesting and productive you can post on the site rather than constant gash about sbc !!
admin
September 14, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Tom is entitled to use the site for whatever purposes as he sits fit, as are you. I hope in time that you will all come to view on the site as your own. Real-whitby.co.uk will only be as good as the people who use it. Please take ownership of the site and send me lots of interesting stuff to publish on your behalves.
Nigel Ward
March 15, 2011 at 7:11 pm
I was down along the West Beach today. I could not believe that they were erecting the chalets again in mid-March – despite some of the highest tides of the year due next week. and northerly gales forecast, too. Madness.
Tom Brod has been nagging them about this for the last five years.
Re-reading some of the comments above, quite some time after they were written, I cannot imagine anyone’s motives for defending this wasteful and wanton stupidity – nor for attacking Tom Brodrick for trying so hard to prevent it.
And anonymously, at that.
Check it out for yourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaiMh8JjcU
admin
March 16, 2011 at 12:19 am
Spring tides this weekend and early next week. Current forecast is fair
http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/whitby-tide-tables
Just 66 votes
June 15, 2012 at 7:20 am
Getting to grips with democracy
Real Whitby serves such a useful purpose. It asks, it criticises, it campaigns – all worthy endeavours but recently I have become disenchanted with its constant whining and its somewhat pompous insinuation that it is the only power for good in the town.
As a relative newcomer to the area – only five years, my perception of the town and its people is probably not the same as that of the ‘born and bred’ division but nevertheless I may have a valid point to make. I am heartily sick of listening to the fatalistic tales of woe, of the victim culture that abounds, of the ‘well it would be like that – it’s Scarborough’s fault’. It really is time to bounce out of this negativity and start campaigning for what we want, not what we don’t want. For as long as this vicious downward spiral of lack of aspiration and initiative continues Whitby’s decline will continue.
For example, one small but irritating incident: the closure of kiddies’ corner at half term. Yes a stupid decision but things could have been averted. Just for a start, I would suggest that WTC gives SBC and NYCC an annual calendar of dates when such work can be done without disturbing the residents and local businesses. Then, if it is disregarded, the councillors responsible at SBC/NYCC can be taken to task for not protecting the livelihoods of locals and the pleasure of its visitors. Whitby needs to start taking the initiative on what it wants for its town rather than constantly bemoaning its fate and retreating to the pub to moan about the latest scourge from the council. It seems to me that it’s high time for all to become actors and not reactors.
In my eyes the biggest issues facing the town are jobs, education, housing and health. Get these four right and the rest will follow; prosperity for the town, fulfilment of ambitions for our young people and a safe and healthy community. Yet, nowhere are these tackled on the Real Whitby site. It’s time to make positive decisions about our future and release Whitby from its negativity.
Peter
March 14, 2013 at 9:06 am
SBC basher, if you don’t like what’s written here – mostly stuff the WG and YP are too yellow to touch – have a full refund and go away.
Sue Spiller
March 14, 2013 at 9:59 am
Once is a mistake – a stupid mistake which could have been / should have been investigated before doing anything. But more than once !! Someone should be sacked. They would have been in any other industry, but somehow councils dont seem to be run like real busineses.
Richard Ineson
March 14, 2013 at 10:46 am
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
The views of good old Albert on insanity, seem to fit the bill here. SBC have been erecting the beach huts at the same time every year, in the full knowledge of the likely weather conditions and high tides, to be expected and which are totally predictable, as is the complete destruction of the beach huts, at this time of the year. And yet, despite being told of the likely outcome of their actions,i.e. the total destruction of the beach huts, they still insist on pursuing their ‘set in stone’ beach hut erection schedule.Could it be that someone has shares in the beach hut manufacturing company? I think that we should be told.