So its been something I’ve always wanted to do, take skimboarding from the sea to the streets, tho I need had an opportunity to. On Thursday the 19th of November, the Dam in Cork released water at approximately 6pm, unfortunalty that was also high tide and then again that was increased with the massive rainfall we had. So ultimately Cork become flooded.

I had woken up at 7am per usual for school, within 10 minutes we recieved a text saying school was canceled due to flooding, after ringing Ian, we decided to head into town to photograph the damage and also maybe skimboard. I did’nt expect there to be so much water, my first encouter was seeing or rather not being able to see the restaurant in the UCC Glucksman simply because water had covered it!

I spent a portion of the motion helping people with various things, like moving stuff around, it helped as I was wearing my wetsuit (felt like an idiot walking into town in it). After a while we decided to give skimboarding a lash, heres the video of it:

After uploading the vid to YouTube, within 24 hours it had been viewed over 10,000 times! It started spreading across the net, to even a point where my cousins friend who lives in England, who only met me one saw it and emailed me about it! I was also mentioned in the news paper as a “Young student attempting to surf the streets”, as I flew past the chief excutive of the Mercy Hospital during an interview.

I’ll post more as it comes, meanwhile:

• link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w57cbAqYwo8
• link to flickr set of flood: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jameswhelton/sets/72157622717352383/

Tag(s) 20.11.2009, 2009, 20th, board, cork, flood, flooding, ireland, November, skimboard, skimboarding, street, urban, water