These are some scary waves from yesterday at

[Skidmore]

Sennen Cove near Lands End in Cornwall.

[flamingdem]

1. Surfs UP

gentlemen.

(I am slightly suspicious of that photo since it has gone viral and there aren't many others like it to confirm..)

[SheilaT]

2. I am always suspicious of photos like this.

There's no link to where it was first published, and when I tried to look at the source info, I couldn't see any kind of date, but I'm not very knowledgeable about these things.

[HipChick]

3. Here's some video...

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/VIDEO-Massive-waves-hit-Sennen-Cove/story-20545516-detail/story.html#axzz2sIPeQx45

[freshwest]

7. I get XML parsing error when I click on it? Any idea why it does that? TIA.

[TeeYiYi]

12. It worked for me. ..nt

TYY

[freshwest]

13. Thanks. Working now. This only happens to me at DU. It's fixed somewhere. VIDEO:

[MineralMan]

4. Very scary, indeed!

[TheMastersNemesis]

5. Just Right For Surfing.

[jmowreader]

16. If you look at a 40-foot wave and wonder when the tide's going to come in, then yeah

[flamingdem]

6. Shocking pictures from around the British coastline show people dicing with death just INCHES from..

Police have been forced to step in and move foolhardy weather-watchers away from the shore amidst fears that people were endangering themselves by getting too close to giant waves during a day of stormy weather.

A family in Cornwall narrowly escaped being swept into the sea when a 20ft wave washed over them as they were walking along a sea wall.

And a group of young men in Shoreham, Sussex risked their lives by playing around on the narrow ledge of a wall as waves crashed around them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2533198/Pictured-Terrifying-moment-young-family-ENGULFED-huge-wave-walk-Cornish-sea-front.html

[freshwest]

9. Lucky they're alive. A piece of driftwood in the wave could have hit them. It's happened out

on the shores of the PNW. You don't know what's in the wave until it's too late.

[Maeve]

10. People looking for Darwin Awards--and bringing the kids along!

I'm sure they didn't really think it was dangerous...but I could have quit this sentence after the 6th word.

[catbyte]

8. OMFG. What a spectacular shot!

[2naSalit]

11. Dang

I guess there's more on the way according to this:

http://www.westbriton.co.uk/

[MoreGOPoop]

14. Holy Crap!

The cliffs are like 100 ft. up in Cornwall/Newquay. Glad those
homes are protected by the jetty.

[W.J. McCabe]

15. Reminds me of this Onion article:

Planet Earth Doesn't Know How To Make It Any Clearer It Wants Everyone To Leave
http://www.theonion.com/articles/planet-earth-doesnt-know-how-to-make-it-any-cleare,20639/

[drmeow]

17. Today's follow-up

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-05/storms-wash-u-k-rail-line-into-sea-cutting-off-western-england.html

A ways east but just as dramatic.

I actually know people in Exeter - I'll have to check in with them.