Doesn't look promising for post storm Jersey Shore detecting!

[Neil in West Jersey]

This was taken a few hours back in Cape May NJ by a friend of a friend.

As you can see, there is about 8 feet of sand on the street. Some storms add sand, while others take it out to sea. It may be days before anyone is allowed back to their shore homes, and beach access may be limited for weeks.

 

[Sailorman]

Wow, not even a PI is gonna help there.....

Hope everyones OK!

 

[JOHNMARKHAM]

wow now thats allot of sand there..i wonder if any of those new detectors are gonna find stuff now??

 

[firtyfwee]

wow thats gotta be 8 feet of sand easy.....

 

[stumppass]

All I can say is WOW!

 

[therover]

We can't get onto LBI to check our house until possibly Saturday. As far as erosion goes, it looks like millions of TONS of sand has been moved up onto not only the beaches, but the streets. There may be certain beaches where there may be huge cuts, but we may not even be able to get to them. Some parts of Wildwood beach have a lake in between the ocean and the boardwalk.

Not even sure if A.C. opens, if it's only for the casino goers, and the beach being off limits.

I was watching some live coverage of A.C and they were panning by where the old board walk had been busted up, and thought I saw a hunter on a sand pile. Not sure, but it sure as heck looked like someone was detecting a sand pile.

 

[pjroo3]

We can't get onto LBI to check our house until possibly Saturday. As far as erosion goes, it looks like millions of TONS of sand has been moved up onto not only the beaches, but the streets. There may be certain beaches where there may be huge cuts, but we may not even be able to get to them. Some parts of Wildwood beach have a lake in between the ocean and the boardwalk.

Not even sure if A.C. opens, if it's only for the casino goers, and the beach being off limits.

I was watching some live coverage of A.C and they were panning by where the old board walk had been busted up, and thought I saw a hunter on a sand pile. Not sure, but it sure as heck looked like someone was detecting a sand pile.

Saw the same person up on the sand pile. It was just after they did the fly over of Revel. I actually think it was someone with a camera on a tripod though. He wasn't moving around at all. I was also trying to look for cuts in the sand and couldn't see any. I'm planning on heading to the shore as soon as the all clear is given. Just not sure where the best cuts wil be. I live about 30 miles west of Philly and we just got some gusty winds and lots of rain. Really looks like parts of the shore took a beating. Gotta feel for those people.

 

[therover]

I saw a person standing there, with what appeared a rod assembly or something. Probably was a person with a camera tripod...makes more sense at this point, but ya never know.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Great picture.

Here on the CA coast, we have sometimes had storms that *seemingly* had all the right "ingredients" to produce erosion ........ and the beach certainly seemed beat up. But .......... no good m'ding results. Then oddly, a day or two (or a week or two) AFTER the storm event, .... THEN the erosion on the mid-level beach starts . We figured out, after a long time studying this, is that mother nature, in the days/weeks that follow a storm, starts to "rob" sand from other areas of the beach to "fill in" voids off-shore (or re-build her dunes up higher). This post-storm sand-re-arrangement by mother nature can sometimes be good hunting.

As your pix shows, sand got "moved around". What I mean is ... OBVIOUSLY that sand that got deposited there around that sign, came from somewhere, right? So while THAT spot is obviously going to be sterile and no-good hunting, yet you have to figure: The sand came from somewhere, that now has less sand. And even if that were off-shore sand (thrown up from the storm), yet it can still simply mean that in the days or weeks to follow, mother nature sill start to rob sand from other parts of the beach, to fill in voids, producing rolling "scallops" and such.

 

[KinTN]

Excellent post Tom. Makes perfect sense.

 

[Grizzly13]

I think the biggest problem at the shore right now is going to be parking !

 

[old lobo]

I have a question. That sand didn't get that deep on the street and normally dry land by just washing up the surface water sand, it washed sand deep from the ocean floor, and with each wave the surface sand got washed up first, then the next deep sand next, etc. making the upper sand on land what used to be the deeper sand in the water, so detecting that sand on land might allow you to find things that were too deep before. Like I said, this is a question. I don't live back east and I'm just trying to learn, but if you disagree, just tell me why my thinking is wrong.

 

[oneon]

I have a question. That sand didn't get that deep on the street and normally dry land by just washing up the surface water sand, it washed sand deep from the ocean floor, and with each wave the surface sand got washed up first, then the next deep sand next, etc. making the upper sand on land what used to be the deeper sand in the water, so detecting that sand on land might allow you to find things that were too deep before. Like I said, this is a question. I don't live back east and I'm just trying to learn, but if you disagree, just tell me why my thinking is wrong.

Thats pretty much what i have found over the last week. Im staying on the beach though... Took me about 5 days to figure it out but i think I've found the heavies after my beach got blown apart! Noreaster tomorrow should prove interesting.

 

[rustydog]

wow wait till after the big equipment moves all that sand. great photo thanks.

 

[GunnarMN]

I thought it takes millions of years to do that ? that layer is at least 100.000 years old are sure that somone did not drive the post into the ground you must be wrong that much sediment could not be deposited in only a few days