Pro,s and Con,s of the BIG ONE coming beach hunters!!

[deepdiger60]

No one likes to see people hurt and property damaged that includes me but it looks like a good chance that Sandy is going to hit the NE coast line in a few days with heavy winds !! and rains !!! finally the ocean beaches will have years and years of sand torn off top and give us beach hunters a chance to find some what would be deep BLING !!! last time here was Gloria 1987 and the Prefect Storm 1991 . Ill be on those beaches next week for sure if my beach front property does not wash away first Wish me luck out here . Jim

 

[dewcon4414]

Well here in the Fl Gulf we may have an even better chance of sand moving. The swells will be 6' on Sat and Sun....it will be a week worth of movement for sure. Whats good for us is the high winds out of the North and North West forcing the longshore drift to cut South. You guys really need a good North Eastern for a couple of days.... but this might do it. For us it might be the duration of the swells...... 7 seconds. Id like to see 4 seconds to force the water to move faster south. Oh well at least im not seeing the winds change back to westernly that should keep any sand moved from comng right back like it did the last storm. We need something ..... I have to hunt in PP just to know there is even trash out there lol. Looks like im ending the month with 6 golds. Time to find the wet suit as well..... next week is going to be 72 daytime high here.

Dew

 

[deepdiger60]

Up here if 3 to 4 feet of sand is riped off the top it would be like hunting a virgin beach the weather people now are saying this could be the biggest weather event since the 1936 Blast that formed the inlets and beaches we have now 120 homes where lost along Dune Road then covered over by the years so it might get interesting here ? .
Jim

 

[deepdiger60]

I forgot to mendthion to add insult to injury Monday the 29th is the Hunters Full Moon , very high tides be careful out there Jim

 

[Neil]

Scary stuff, they are doubling up our shifts at the hospital which is a few miles up the road from Seaside Heights. Im hoping it doesnt hit its hardest close to hear but it looks like it might.

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Too much at once has never been good for treasure hunters like ourselfs! If you looking for whole ships being exsposed than this might be right up your ally. The last huricane in the NJ area Irene bounced up and down hitting every 2 miles or so removing 15 feet of sand along with every known target to man! Ya I know we dug gold and some really old coins for 3 days. But every tide after the storm brought back 3 inches of sand in 2 weeks the sand was white fluffy and lacked any shells and target for the next 6 months! But like I said 20 miles away 2 feet was removed and they got the same results and each little storm for the next 6 months reveled more targets. IMHO bigger isn't better in the long run!
BCNJ

 

[deepdiger60]

By the looks of it now it is not going to be that big event anyway just lots of onshore wind and rains it just dropped to 70 mph like Irene it going to fizzle out so maybe we will get just some mild beach erosion which is ok with me . Many years ago we had wood ramps that went from the parking lot,s and are homes to the water downhill all the way , now you have to walk up a hill of white sand and then down to the water the wood ramps are under 12 feet of sand having most of that sand wash back down wouldnt be a bad thing at all ,maybe those 1600 ships that sank and washed up on the beaches will show there ribs again in the dunes . Jim

 

[jabbo]

I don't know about huricanes but I hit the NJ shore after 3 Nor Easters. No other detectorists were there, the whole beach was mine, but I found nothing all 3 times. What did they know that I didn't. Was using the CZ20 that I had then.

 

[Critterhunter]

I saw one news report this morning on an ocean beach. They said 30+ feet of sand on the beach (horizontal wise, not depth wise of course) was GONE. Man, you guys hunting those beaches are in for a bonanza I think. Expect to see a lot of silver and gold coins from old ship wrecks to be found, not to mention other forms of gold and silver.

 

[deepdiger60]

I saw one news report this morning on an ocean beach. They said 30+ feet of sand on the beach (horizontal wise, not depth wise of course) was GONE. Man, you guys hunting those beaches are in for a bonanza I think. Expect to see a lot of silver and gold coins from old ship wrecks to be found, not to mention other forms of gold and silver.

Hope the bridges are cross-able by Thursday and they let people on the beaches if there is beaches ?? lol .They evacuated Fire Island National Seashore today mandatory !!! the winds are just now kicking up 50+mph out here on the tip no rain yet .Jim

 

[sovereignelite]

I saw one news report this morning on an ocean beach. They said 30+ feet of sand on the beach (horizontal wise, not depth wise of course) was GONE. Man, you guys hunting those beaches are in for a bonanza I think. Expect to see a lot of silver and gold coins from old ship wrecks to be found, not to mention other forms of gold and silver.

Hope the bridges are cross-able by Thursday and they let people on the beaches if there is beaches ?? lol .They evacuated Fire Island National Seashore today mandatory !!! the winds are just now kicking up 50+mph out here on the tip no rain yet .Jim

What's going on now? Haven't seen the news.