Nor'easter...

We've had an interesting last couple of days with a Nor'easter and the remnants of Hurricane Ida hitting us. The winds were gusting to 60 mph blowing the rain in every direction and the tides were 7.6 feet above normal at the height of the storm. Keep in mind that our home elevation is 11 feet and the normal high tide is 2-3 feet. Luckily the water only made it to the top of the curb in front of our house though the building next door had it up to their yards. The neighborhood looked like white trash with everybody's cars on their lawns to get them as high as possible. Jim was sad to see the tire tracks in his beloved lawn when he returned home today (of course he had to be out of town when this all happened) but that's a lot easier to fix than a flooded car.

Though our home didn't flood we were completely surrounded by water. To the north and west about a block each way is a river which came over the banks and flooded the road heading south that provided our only escape route. There was over 2 feet of water on the road at high tide, luckily we have a truck and were able to return home dry unlike our next door neighbor who had to park her sedan a 1/4 mile away and wade through the thigh deep water to get home. Here are a couple of pictures about two hours before high tide. It was much deeper a few hours later.

Here are a couple shots of the bridge to the base that you can normally take a motor boat under and the stacks of debris left by the receding tide and crashing waves. I suspect the waves were crashing over the bridge at high tide.


This seems bad but there were many in our area that had homes flooded and/or damaged by the wind and we saw stalled cars all over the place last night and today. The peak of the storm came after dark so I don't have any great pictures of the widespread flooding but my friend Cherie got some good ones of the aftermath today. Whitney was very sad that school was cancelled for two days due to the storm. We were blessed to only have lost power for about six hours during the day and it came back on just as it was getting dark.


This last picture I took a few days later at the base marina. All these boats were blown over a 1oo yards down the dry storage area, through a chain link fence and stacked up against the marina building and pilings. Some boats and trailers even ended up in the water.