Well that was an interesting three days without power.
Kinda like camping.
We consider ourselves very lucky. Sorry to hear about those caught in this huge storm.
Below are a few
short videos of what used to be the NJ shore.
6 stunning APP aerial videos show Sandy's Shore damage | The Asbury Park Press NJ | app.com
The 5th clip is the 4 mile stretch of Trex boardwalk we walked every weekend morning.
I'm glad to know you are OK Rick.
It is always sad to see historic coastal towns wrecked by storms.
Unfortunately it has always been so.
I come from a country with a much longer recorded history.
From my home county of Kent storms in the thirteen century rearranged the
Romney Marshes.
In the latter part of the thirteenth century a series of severe storms weakened the coastal defences of Romney Marsh, and the Great Storm of 1287 almost destroyed the town. The harbour and town were filled with sand, silt, mud and debris, and the River Rother changed course to run out into the sea near Rye, Sussex. The mud, silt and sand were never entirely removed from the town, which is why many old buildings, especially the church, have steps leading down into them from the present pavement level.
Near the family's holiday pad on the East Anglian Coast of Suffolk, the port of
Dunwich has largely been under the North Sea since a series of storms in the thirteen and fourteenth centuries. The final storm rerouted the river Blyth, and made it enter the North Sea between Walberswick and Southwold, which it still does.
On 1 January 1286[7] a large storm swept much of the town into the sea, and the River Dunwich was partly silted up; this was followed by two further surges in the following year, the South England flood of February 1287 and St. Lucia's flood in December. Residents fought to save the harbour but this too was destroyed by an equally fierce storm in 1328,[7] which also swept away the entire village of Newton, a few miles up the coast.[citation needed] Another large storm in 1347 swept some 400 houses into the sea.
Most of the buildings that were present in the 13th century have disappeared, including all eight churches, and Dunwich is now a small coastal "village", though retaining its status as a town.[citation needed] The remains of a 13th century Franciscan priory (Greyfriars) and the leper hospital of St James can still be seen.[8] A popular local legend says that, at certain tides, church bells can still be heard from beneath the waves.[9]
I have a rare fascinating book, by a local historian, called "Men of Dunwich," which chronicles the catastrophic events and aftermaths. The politics of the events are clearly documented, and the similarity of the politic surrounding such events then and now is positively uncanny.
The North Sea is now starting to claim the outer wall of the "New" Friary at Dunwich.
The Mayor of New York is now jumping on the environmental/climate change bandwagon, along with a lot of others.
I would really like to give them a history lesson from a time long before power stations and tail pipes!
