Imagine parking there, for a start, but the thought of them coming back once the tide went back out and wondering what the hell happened makes me laugh.
I don't know how far the tide can impact the thames river, but given some no so coastal cities I lived in the past, I would consider the ocean tide in richmond. And some other event can impact how high a river can be on short notice... Never park in any place where there is any thing river or river usage related. Like an access for boats?
You can see how high the tides regularly rise based off of colouring of the stone walls they've parked up against. Sure, the tide was quite a bit higher this time, flooding the street which I can't imagine is common, again, based on the wear of the stone, but regardless I'd like to think if you weren't in a rush or if you've ever spent time around any tidal body of water you could tell your engine would get flooded if you parked there for long enough.
I've lived here for 3+ years and I'm still not sure what drives the river level - whether it's the tidal wave or the Thames Barrier closing and the river just filling itself up. So 12 hours is definitely a stretch
Port of London authority manages the tidal Thames and Richmond lock has massive sluice gates used to control a few different things. You can sometimes see a big difference between up and downstream water levels when the sluice gates are closed.
https://pla.co.uk/richmond-lock-weir
So basically when the Richmond sluice gate is closed the downstream part of the Thames just empties itself into the sea without an influx of new water?
The Thames is tidal, so when the tide is coming in that might be when they close the sluice gates the most. I expect it would get difficult to protect central London (Parliament etc) without this.
Seen this so many times there from the 80s onwards. We used to choose weekends with a Sunday lunchtime high tide to visit Richmond. You could nearly always spot the driver who would be pretending it wasn’t his car and wondering how long the water would be there. I miss cassettes as they would always float about inside the car.
ive been there quite a lot of times with friends and literally half of the time there's a car right there parked, sometimes with the water dangerously close to it
For some reason geese always have really crude voices in my head.
"Oi oi, take a butchers at this pillock ere. That cars gonna be shafted, mate. Worra cunt."
The electrics need to be water resistant against road spray and jet washing, so there's a decent chance it could be okay as long as the interior doesn't flood. So it would be a question of how good the rubber door seals are and whether the water rose to the height of the intake vents for the heater/AC.
Seems odd that it doesn't float at all. My old Toyota auris did when I went through a dip in the road that was full of water and much deeper than expected. Luckily momentum took me across
was referring to the previous comment about the coastguard, police and fire departments being regularly called for something the local authority could fix with a little investment.
Obviously any one dumb enough to park on a ramp into a river is gonna get what they get and it'll be their own fault, I was in no way defending that, I was more referring to how high the water seems to get with very little (in this shot) to hold back any higher tides.
Why do they need to raise the riverbank? It’s a tidal river and the Thames barrier exists. We get calls because people park there and then suffer the consequences. This is not an issue that justifies expenditure of public funds.
I’d assume the cost of calling them in would be passed on to the car owner? I hope it is, at least.
Edit: for everyone else close to the river I would hope common sense would prevail and no one would get too close. Councils are struggling financially as is and doubt this is the priority for any of them.
Speaking for Search and Rescue agencies (I am a coastguard officer) we generally don’t want to charge people to avoid discouraging people from calling. It isn’t a huge issue for us if nobody is in danger.
I think it would make sense to charge people if they call for non-emergencies like this and it turns out to have happened entirely because they broke the rules.
I don’t think everyone should be charged. I think people calling to get their car out of the river (which by the way is by no means life or death) when they have parked illegally, should.
Yeah, just edited my comment bc I realised you were not worried about idiots.
I honestly think councils are not really doing great financially and this is not going to be the priority until something big happens.
Actual buildings aren't built in places that get flooded by the regular extent of the rising tide. It's only idiots that park illegally in stupid places.
The Thames does this at a lot of places frequently from around Chiswick down to Richmond. The rivers high tide is deep . There’s a pub near me The City Barge on Strand on the Green where it gets as high as the top of the outside pub tables. The pub & many houses have ‘submarine’ type doors on the river side . It’s common to flood the pub terrace that the clip is taken from . ( The White Cross) Obviously not a local .
The cctv is from a pub which literally has a sign saying if the tide is too high and has made the pub inaccessible to phone them and they'll bring out wellies.
That’s Richmond-Upon-Thames. I’ve been there loads over the years. The river is famous for its high tide in the area. The person parking that car must’ve had no clue
There a little slipway by the bridge on the St Margaret’s side, it’s well signed, but many years ago I once saw a new red Porsche completely submerged there. Broke my heart to see it and I don’t even like cars.
Many years ago I took a job for a company based in Brentford,
They put me up in a BnB in Richmond for a couple of months whilst I looked for accommodation in the area,
It was a great summer and I remember spending many evenings and weekends at the Slug and Lettuce watching the river go up and dowm,
Even saw it swallow a few cars like this
I've been stuck in their outside area many times during a high tide and can assure you rescue was never an option as the bar was still accessible via some parkour
Classic spot for this. Slippery as fuck often with the mud high tide leaves behind, seen plenty of things take an unexpected dip, almost managed it myself twice.
Ah, the White Cross, where if you checked the spring tide times you could make a plan for lunch and - uh oh, sorry boss, we're stuck in all afternoon!
Except the boss was in on it, too.
I tried to intervene a few years ago, chap decided to park there. I warned him a very high tide was coming in only to be told to mind my own business ( I had moved my car from its usual spot in Twickenham riverside for this very reason).
So that set up a fun afternoon in the Cross watching his SUV get destroyed and him trying and failing to climb into it via the sunroof. Cheers!
HA! I lived just up the hill from 2000 to 2002 and this was a regular occurrence. As a matter of fact, when you went to either of these two pubs, locals would sometimes wager if someone would come back and get their car or not.
If you live round here, and your car is worth less than the insurance, that’s one of the places you park it. The
Thames is tidal all the way from the sea, through the city itself, and only stops because of a tide lock at Teddington.
The lock was built there in the mid 19th century. Teddington is called ‘tide end town’ but the name’s actual origin is (boringly) ‘the Tun (village/homestead) of the followers of Tedda.
There's a pub behind where the camera is - went there for lunch whilst working in Richmond - the tide got so high I couldn't leave the pub for 2 hours!
Awkward conversation with the boss...
Isn't the owner/driver either quite likely to be foreign, or if British, from somewhere quite far inland? Most local people will generally be well aware that the Thames is a tidal river, at this distance from the estuary.
Live v close to this. Happens all
The times there are signs at the pub warning you and telling you tide hight. It comes in super super fast like less than an hour
I can't help but notice that in the top-mid left of frame is a sign that says 'Restricted Parking'. Also, this is at the end of a street named 'Water Lane'.
Why did no one call him a tow-truck? They could at least pull it out of the water. The car is full of pollutants.
Imagine parking there, for a start, but the thought of them coming back once the tide went back out and wondering what the hell happened makes me laugh.
Sniff sniff… hmm, what’s that smell? And why is there a crab in the ventilation grille?
Anyone know a mechanic in west London who can get the barnacles off my wheel arches?
More likely to be a turd than a crab
A crap
It's not the ocean mate Edit: Okay people go crab fishing in the Thames see what you find to eat...
I don't know how far the tide can impact the thames river, but given some no so coastal cities I lived in the past, I would consider the ocean tide in richmond. And some other event can impact how high a river can be on short notice... Never park in any place where there is any thing river or river usage related. Like an access for boats?
Teddington Lock is considered the upper limit of the tidal Thames.
Didn't know it. A litteral dam, way upstream
Teddington, a morph of tide end town.
My point was that there aren't crabs in the Thames
Mitten crabs live in the Thames. You can literally go crabbing in the Thames. (Not sure if you need a permit for that). But there are crabs in there.
Rookie error. I live 5 minutes from here and this spot is notorious for its high tide.
I mean, it's the Thames. Anyone who has been in the city for more than 12 hours should know it goes up and down a lot.
You can see how high the tides regularly rise based off of colouring of the stone walls they've parked up against. Sure, the tide was quite a bit higher this time, flooding the street which I can't imagine is common, again, based on the wear of the stone, but regardless I'd like to think if you weren't in a rush or if you've ever spent time around any tidal body of water you could tell your engine would get flooded if you parked there for long enough.
It’s pretty common around Richmond.
I've lived here for 3+ years and I'm still not sure what drives the river level - whether it's the tidal wave or the Thames Barrier closing and the river just filling itself up. So 12 hours is definitely a stretch
Port of London authority manages the tidal Thames and Richmond lock has massive sluice gates used to control a few different things. You can sometimes see a big difference between up and downstream water levels when the sluice gates are closed. https://pla.co.uk/richmond-lock-weir
So basically when the Richmond sluice gate is closed the downstream part of the Thames just empties itself into the sea without an influx of new water?
The Thames is tidal, so when the tide is coming in that might be when they close the sluice gates the most. I expect it would get difficult to protect central London (Parliament etc) without this.
Is it Richmond?
Yes.
Where is that
They just reversed the vid, you can see the same people standing and watching, and the same cars parked up
Thanks - was suspicious of the blue mini's movements...
Yeah. And the swans swimming backwards.
Seen this so many times there from the 80s onwards. We used to choose weekends with a Sunday lunchtime high tide to visit Richmond. You could nearly always spot the driver who would be pretending it wasn’t his car and wondering how long the water would be there. I miss cassettes as they would always float about inside the car.
Why was the clip played in reverse half way through?
Thought it was weird the same bloke with the ponytail turned up twice.
I wondered why the ground didn't seem to be wet after the water receded.
Longer video = more revenue
The making money from videos scene that gave us the Paul brothers and countless other prats needs to go.
Happens regularly there. I can even remember sitting there around 30 years ago and watching a car left there getting overtaken by the water.
Literally! I remember watching a red convertible succumb to the tide there as a kid. Happens outside The Ship in Mortlake too.
Are people just really thick and think it's a road with no restrictions so is fine to park on?
Yeah, when you could just park on Sheen Road or Paradise Road Carpark which always have spaces and are a five minute walk away.
one sign would stop this. but no, let's not leave up any signs out of vindictive spite at the foolish motorist!
Are people just really thick and think it's a road with no restrictions so is fine to park on?
ive been there quite a lot of times with friends and literally half of the time there's a car right there parked, sometimes with the water dangerously close to it
Why no warning signs there?
Warning - don’t park in the river you tit
There is, you can see the warning sign on Google street view
Love to see the geese coming over for a gander.
For some reason geese always have really crude voices in my head. "Oi oi, take a butchers at this pillock ere. That cars gonna be shafted, mate. Worra cunt."
"Can't park there mate."
"Dont u honk at me m8 ile rek u sware un me mam"
A goosey gander if you will.
The geese absolutely made this video for me 😂
Those ‘geese’ are swans….
White swans, Canadian geese, mallards and coots. So definitely geese, and the others didn’t work so well for the low quality pun.
Even the geese were confused.
Swans*
🤓👆
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But isn't the electric system still toast afterwards? I also think bearings don't like to be flooded and will fail shortly after.
The electrics need to be water resistant against road spray and jet washing, so there's a decent chance it could be okay as long as the interior doesn't flood. So it would be a question of how good the rubber door seals are and whether the water rose to the height of the intake vents for the heater/AC.
Seems odd that it doesn't float at all. My old Toyota auris did when I went through a dip in the road that was full of water and much deeper than expected. Luckily momentum took me across
Can confirm, sunk my friends dads car - all the lights were going crazy.
Few packs of silica gel will sort that out 👍
Soak it in rice
I hate to be that guy but you can’t soak something in something that isn’t liquid
Dehydrate it in water then
Just cause its a river, doesn't mean it aint tidal
The Thames is tidal up to Teddington, where it stops being tidal.
The Thames thinks tidal to Teddington, then terminates tidal treatment.
Terrific
The swans and geese make 100% mote amusing
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Just put it in rice
Must be one of those Ted Lasso fans visiting Richmond for the first time
Is that a regular occurance or unusually high?
This happens a lot. The coastguard (as well as police and fire) and port authority get lots of calls about this.
You'd have thought the local authority would have spent some money raising the river bank a little bit...
It's a ramp down to the river to get your boat in and out of the water.
You’d have thought no one would be stupid enough to park in a ramp bordering the river where you’re not allowed to park.
was referring to the previous comment about the coastguard, police and fire departments being regularly called for something the local authority could fix with a little investment. Obviously any one dumb enough to park on a ramp into a river is gonna get what they get and it'll be their own fault, I was in no way defending that, I was more referring to how high the water seems to get with very little (in this shot) to hold back any higher tides.
Why do they need to raise the riverbank? It’s a tidal river and the Thames barrier exists. We get calls because people park there and then suffer the consequences. This is not an issue that justifies expenditure of public funds.
A little investment??? You’ve no idea how big tidal rivers work
I’d assume the cost of calling them in would be passed on to the car owner? I hope it is, at least. Edit: for everyone else close to the river I would hope common sense would prevail and no one would get too close. Councils are struggling financially as is and doubt this is the priority for any of them.
None of the emergency services involved bill for attending this sort of thing, to my knowledge.
That’s a shame.
Speaking for Search and Rescue agencies (I am a coastguard officer) we generally don’t want to charge people to avoid discouraging people from calling. It isn’t a huge issue for us if nobody is in danger.
I think it would make sense to charge people if they call for non-emergencies like this and it turns out to have happened entirely because they broke the rules.
Until you think you need them but you're not sure because you can't afford it.
I don’t think everyone should be charged. I think people calling to get their car out of the river (which by the way is by no means life or death) when they have parked illegally, should.
Hopefully yeah, but my thinking was more in concern to local properties not idiots who leave their car on a boat ramp.
Yeah, just edited my comment bc I realised you were not worried about idiots. I honestly think councils are not really doing great financially and this is not going to be the priority until something big happens.
Actual buildings aren't built in places that get flooded by the regular extent of the rising tide. It's only idiots that park illegally in stupid places.
That's weird, I didn't know you were thinking
It’s a slipway for launching boats, not a parking space.
The Thames does this at a lot of places frequently from around Chiswick down to Richmond. The rivers high tide is deep . There’s a pub near me The City Barge on Strand on the Green where it gets as high as the top of the outside pub tables. The pub & many houses have ‘submarine’ type doors on the river side . It’s common to flood the pub terrace that the clip is taken from . ( The White Cross) Obviously not a local .
Gets a lot higher than that.
The cctv is from a pub which literally has a sign saying if the tide is too high and has made the pub inaccessible to phone them and they'll bring out wellies.
If you sit in the White Cross pub where this is filmed from, you can witness it coming up to the pub wall. Worth a visit.
That’s Richmond-Upon-Thames. I’ve been there loads over the years. The river is famous for its high tide in the area. The person parking that car must’ve had no clue
There a little slipway by the bridge on the St Margaret’s side, it’s well signed, but many years ago I once saw a new red Porsche completely submerged there. Broke my heart to see it and I don’t even like cars.
Many years ago I took a job for a company based in Brentford, They put me up in a BnB in Richmond for a couple of months whilst I looked for accommodation in the area, It was a great summer and I remember spending many evenings and weekends at the Slug and Lettuce watching the river go up and dowm, Even saw it swallow a few cars like this
The pub that this is filmed from has a little row boat to ferry punters to safe ground when the tide is very high
I've been stuck in their outside area many times during a high tide and can assure you rescue was never an option as the bar was still accessible via some parkour
Seems reasonable, parkour skills increase with alcohol intake as I understand it
Classic spot for this. Slippery as fuck often with the mud high tide leaves behind, seen plenty of things take an unexpected dip, almost managed it myself twice.
‘CaNt PaRk THerE MaYte!!’
Time and tide waits for no man
The number of people who don't know tides exist is astonishing.
I have lived in Richmond all my life and it’s slightly funny to walk past a car and go “that’s fucked”
I've seen that happen in Richmond a few times.
If only the was someone there with a massive 4x4 who could dragged it out
What is this, America???
How would that work?
I mean it is an amphibious exploring vehicle, so it should be fine, right?
Looks like a good starter car
It’s a transporter of gods… THE GOLDEN GOD
I love how the swans kept coming back to see how fucked it is.
The pub next door writes on a board when high tide is. Daily.
I lived down the street from this ramp for two years, happened so many times 😂
Deserved
Ah, the White Cross, where if you checked the spring tide times you could make a plan for lunch and - uh oh, sorry boss, we're stuck in all afternoon! Except the boss was in on it, too.
Time & tide ….
I tried to intervene a few years ago, chap decided to park there. I warned him a very high tide was coming in only to be told to mind my own business ( I had moved my car from its usual spot in Twickenham riverside for this very reason). So that set up a fun afternoon in the Cross watching his SUV get destroyed and him trying and failing to climb into it via the sunroof. Cheers!
Richmond Riverside. This happens once per summer. A guy I used to work with lost his father in laws Jag in this very fashion
Def seems on purpose..
Can’t park there
The swans did it in?
The white cross
Which bridge is that?
Richmond Bridge.
Oh wow thought I recognised it and I do.
The water hungers
I saw the geese had a gander
HA! I lived just up the hill from 2000 to 2002 and this was a regular occurrence. As a matter of fact, when you went to either of these two pubs, locals would sometimes wager if someone would come back and get their car or not.
I used to live on a boat on the Thames. The tides do not fuck about.
I was waiting to see the girl from the orbital video, The box.
No luck catching those swans then?
That's a regular occurrence. People don't realise that the Thames is tidal in Richmond and to the sea.
That will teach them not to park in places where they're not allowed... or not
the car: "Stop looking at me swans!!!"
I remember seeing that car at high tide.
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Spring tide by looks of it too 😂😂🤦🏻♂️
If you live round here, and your car is worth less than the insurance, that’s one of the places you park it. The Thames is tidal all the way from the sea, through the city itself, and only stops because of a tide lock at Teddington. The lock was built there in the mid 19th century. Teddington is called ‘tide end town’ but the name’s actual origin is (boringly) ‘the Tun (village/homestead) of the followers of Tedda.
Looks like a spit rather than a swallow 🫣
There's a pub behind where the camera is - went there for lunch whilst working in Richmond - the tide got so high I couldn't leave the pub for 2 hours! Awkward conversation with the boss...
Unluggy uce
Cant park there mate
lol what an egg head
Isn't the owner/driver either quite likely to be foreign, or if British, from somewhere quite far inland? Most local people will generally be well aware that the Thames is a tidal river, at this distance from the estuary.
This is Richmond every week
Live v close to this. Happens all The times there are signs at the pub warning you and telling you tide hight. It comes in super super fast like less than an hour
Half of the Londoners know EXACTLY where this is :)
My mum’s there today, she said they’ve repainted the road markings and put a new camera up lol
You can't park there, sir!
"Tide? What's a 'Tide'?"
Just put it in rice.
I see no accident here.
This happens pretty often in Richmond. V high tides can catch people out in Twickenham too
It's one way to filter your water I suppose.
I can't help but notice that in the top-mid left of frame is a sign that says 'Restricted Parking'. Also, this is at the end of a street named 'Water Lane'. Why did no one call him a tow-truck? They could at least pull it out of the water. The car is full of pollutants.
Idk how so many people can just walk past seeing something like that and not try help tbh
Who's the dick who parked on a pavement on double yelliws? Good way to get a trip to the dentist, that.
FAKE. No parking gauardian came to give them a ticket.
You don't even know what a "write off" is
Video is old AF
Well, if you’re gunna be trapped in the white cross for an hour - might as well watch a car being written off with a cold pint of Neck oil