Our Coast In Under Attack
A Breach in the Dunes
Our coast was under attack! Once again we suffered another major storm. This is the third huge storm this winter that has pummeled our coastline. The newscasters said that between the three storms in the town I live in we have lost 25 feet of beach. It was carved away by the force of the waves. Our town is protected by a spit of land called “Town Neck Beach” that is in front of a large salt marsh. On the opposite side of the salt marsh is our town center. With these three storms the water has breached three new openings through the dunes. The water is now flowing through the dunes and flooding the marsh. As a result during this storm some of the houses close to a mile in from the ocean were flooded because the level of the water in the salt marsh rose so high. Attempts are going to be made fill the breaches with sand. We’ll see if they hold. But I think you can only stave off Mother Nature for so long!
Stormy Seas
A Raging Atlantic
The ocean has carved away 25′ of shoreline in the past three storms and ripped out beach stairs with it!
Flooded Salt Marsh & Boardwalk
Flooded Town Center
Flooded Salt Marsh
A Breach in the Dunes
Devastating and beautiful at the same time. Thank you for sharing these spectacular images. Hope you didn’t risk your life taking these photos Liz! How are YOU holding up down there?
Reblogged this on Licht Years and commented:
Just sharing some phenomenal captures from my friend Liz on Cape Cod. Beauty and devastation…nature can be pretty fierce at times!
These pictures are incredible! shows nature’s absolute power too whew!
This has really been a brutal winter. It is wonderful to see the sun today…
disaster!post has excellent
Stunning storm images!! Here – inland – we haven’t suffered the devastation that the coast did…but nonetheless – felt the brunt of the winter storms!!
Spectacular photos. I love the beauty of the coastline where I live, yet I have seem damage like that in your photos a 100 times. I would never leave even knowing that I might have to startover at any time.
I don’t watch network TV, although occasionally listen to CBC radio (canadian broadcasting corp) . . . I hesitate pressing the “like” icon, but it is good for me to witness the photos of such a weather event . . . Here on the west coast of Canada our winter has been very warm and mild and nothing so devasting, although the past three years we’ve experienced 3 climate change related weather events . . . I keep bracing for the next one. Thanks for posting the reality, from your neck of the woods.
Mother Nature always wins in the end. This summer Australia endured record breaking heat waves, fires, cyclones and floods. I hope you’re safe.
I totally agree. They plan on doing a beach replenishing project but we have seen this happen up and down the coast of Massachusetts and eventually it will be wiped out! You can’t beat Mother Nature!
We spend a week in the late spring in West Yarmouth. I’m almost scared to see what each of the storms have done to our beautiful Cape Cod. This week if allowed I hope to visit Plum Island which has equally been devastated by the storms. They say Chang is good. The hardest part is accepting that forever is created by nature?
Yes some of the homes on Plum Island were hit very hard. One even toppled over.
Wow, very impressive shots, Elizabeth. Hope you all can recover quickly and that this’ll be the last storm you’ll have to endure this winter.
I hope so Kate!
Great documenting photos, hope all is not getting as worse as that again! All the best,Ron.