The context of the Hastings Rockfall is that over the last few weeks the UK has been suffering the effects of a series of exceptional low pressure systems that have swept in from the Atlantic, bringing heavy rainfall and very strong winds.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the onslaught continues today<\/a>.\u00a0 The consequence has been high levels of damage (and a political fuss about funding for flood defences<\/a>), and (unsurprisingly) many landslides.<\/p>\n Perhaps the most spectacular event captured on video to date occurred at Rock-A-Nore in Hastings in East Sussex.\u00a0 Most of the coverage (e.g. the Metro<\/a> and the BBC<\/a>) has featured the Youtube video<\/a> below, but in fact this is not the best one:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rAmkjc7kcu0<\/p>\n If you look carefully at the above video you will see that before the collapse there is a fresh scar on the cliff face.\u00a0 This is because the above event is the second collapse in the sequence.\u00a0 The first was also captured on video and is on Youtube<\/a>:<\/p>\nThe Hastings Rockfall event<\/h5>\n