GALLERY: Storm damage in Worthing and Goring

HIGH winds and heavy rain ripped down fences and knocked down trees across Worthing.
By The Newsroom
Published 16th Nov 2009, 10:19 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 01:12 BST

Worthing firefighters called in part time retained crew on Saturday, November 14, to help the 12-man full time team cope with the workload.

Details of call outs during Saturday's stormcan be seen by clicking here.

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Herald readers have sent in their photographs of storm damage.

Click on the panel above to see photographs with details below.

Becky Sutton went down to Goring beach at 1.30pm on Saturday, and took photographs of damaged beach huts and her mother Gill and brother Matt braving the storm.

Jon Mayes took photographs parked motorbikes which had been knocked over by the wind in Montague Street. His photographs also show fallen trees in Tarring and Goring.

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Michael Black-Feather took photographs of fencing blown around a building site in Eirene Road at about 1pm on Saturday afternoon and his own damaged garden fence.

Mark Potter was in town on Saturday afternoon and saw firefighters dealing with a fallen tree in the Montague Centre car park.

Nick Sarjeant filmed huge waves breaking over Worthing Pier before it was closed due to the storm surge.

Watch his video in the panel to the right, below the main photograph.

Have you taken interesting photographs of the storm damage?

The Herald would like to hear from you.

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Just email photographs as jpegs (less than 1MB please) to [email protected]

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