article_snippet: It was the day the boats were damaged. '
article_snippet: Many households on coast were left without power after ferocious storms swept in from the Atlantic .
article_snippet: Unsurprisingly, all trains lines were suspended in Cornwall at the height of the storm, with structural engineers working overtime .
article_snippet: In January and February 2014 hundreds of homes were flooded as the worst storms in 20 years continued to cause misery across the country.
article_snippet: Waves as high as 30 feet battered the coastline at Porthleven as Storm Hercules reared Porthleven ugly head after moving across the Atlantic over the early part of last year.
article_snippet: There were thousands of 999 calls in Cornwall alone, and the Environment Agency issued as many as 340 storm warnings across the country, warning of serious risk to life.'
article_snippet: Waves reached as high as 30 feet on the Porthleven coastline as Storm Hercules battered Britain in the early part of 2014 .
article_snippet: The storms were something else - the town took a proper pounding and The storms are only just finishing repairs to the harbour wall. '
article_snippet: In fact we got swamped in two ways - the harbour area was battered and flooded, then we had loads of tourists coming down to take pictures of it all!'