At first light Rossco, James and Ollie from West Wittering Windsurf Club were up trying to get to the beach.
Storm force winds overnight had downed trees and made it hard to get to the beach.

At just after 8am the beach opened as the Storm passed through gusts of wind were still in the 45 knot range this morning – gusts had been over 70 mph at 5 am according to local weather data, Chimet. …