Got to love stormy Ventnor...

A mash-up of various stormy videos, plus a cheeky clip from the IslandEcho's drone footage of the recent landslip at the aptly-named The Landslip....
The Undercliff, forming the south-east coastline of the Isle of Wight, is Europe's largest urbanised rotational landslip. That basically means it's a huge jumble of extremely unstable spoil, and we plonked a load of houses on top of the chaos. For some reason, this landslip is slipping towards the sea. It's not as exposed to the full-force of autumn and winter gales as it might be: St Catherine's Point kind of protects us from the worst sou' westers. But is does get blustery. Those turbulent seas gnaw away at the coastline and, as they do so, they pull away the toe of the cliffs, causing the slippages to be activated and the terraces to slip and crumble, along with those houses and various roads. Add to that the ingress of water from inland via innumerable subterranean vents, springs and seepages, and well..........all-in-all, not the best place to stick a town. But we do love it here.
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[@clairedean9034]

I really miss living in Ventnor...it has been my favorite place to live so far. Great videos...thanks for sharing 👍

[@aleccap5946]

The Spy Glass pub, lovely, there's not a great deal to see or do in seafront part Ventnor, but go up on the road, and beautiful walks

[@kevinwilliams8218]

Hi from little kev the bog cleaner!

[@tinalarsen6059]

Thank you for the nice videos. I was just wondering could you not get a mobilehome instead of your small van or is it too expensive. I just thought it would be really nice for you to have one of those instead. Or maybe you could get yourself a small flat in Ventnor, since you like it so much. A nice, cosy warm flat for you instead of sleeping in a cold van. Just a thought.

[@nuntius1933]

Why people choose to leave their cars exposed to the fury of the sea beats me!

[@Cornishvandweller]

I have to confess I do that, and wonder why it has rust patches...

[@garyh1572]

Great video. What is the bright light on the horizon in the first few minutes ??

[@JelMain]

A cruise liner

[@Cornishvandweller]

Yep, one of the liners heading to/from Southampton Water