“It’s hot on the Breton beaches. » Since this Sunday, impressive images of a storm hitting a parking lot located near a coastline are circulating virally on Facebook. We see several vehicles parked and quickly submerged by the power of giant waves. One of the cars even got completely caught in the gusts of wind. Two pedestrians were also on the scene, also in difficulty due to the weather conditions.
According to the description of the video, the images were filmed on the Breton coast. However, this assertion is very unlikely. Here’s why.
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If these images awaken among motorists the fear of one day finding their car in such conditions, Bretons can be reassured: the video was not filmed in their region. First clue, the car license plates. They do not correspond to French plates. That of the gray car, for example, has seven characters but which are not separated by hyphens like ours.
This observation helps us to reach a conclusion: the location is not the right one. Using a reverse image search, it is possible to find instances of the video in question. Similar images had been published on the social network, on August 5. “Don’t underestimate the sea. Check out these images from Devon this week,” the post describes.
The video shared on X even mentions a YouTube account, “sandpit72”, followed by 14,900 subscribers. The title “Freak august summer storm hits Ilfracombe Devon” allows the event and location to be identified. The video was filmed in Ilfracombe, a seaside resort in the county of Devon, England. “The unusual spectacle of large overflowing waves at the beginning of August during periods of bad weather. Flat seas earlier in the day quickly changed when the wind shifted to the northwest late in the afternoon during the rising tides of the “Supermoon” to wreak havoc and inflict damage as people attempted to move cars at high tide,” summarizes the video description.
According to an article from the British media Itv, the video was filmed on August 3 during storm Antoni. If she also crossed Brittany this summer, the images and description do not match.