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:usaflag: Storm Tides On The Connecticut Shore!!

C

Cupajo

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Last night the storm winds reached hurricane force along the New England shore area!

It would have been interesting to get pictures of the wild water/wave action as it was tossed around by these winds, but there was no way I could do that without drowning in the heavy rainfall that came as part of the storm!

The puny street lights wouldn't provide enough illumination to catch the action anyway.

At 9AM I decided to have a look at what was happening during high tide with the storm tide pushing the water even higher than normal.

Ma Nature is still working destroying the fence as seen in these pics (the "tide rock" is buried in the storm tide directly behind the end (corner) fence post!)


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The concrete used to set the posts has been tossed 40' or so away from the fence where they were laying yesterday AM.

There is one at the water's edge and one up on the beach.

They must weight 50Lbs or so!

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The water has reached the short sea-walls a few feet in front of the cottages and could have invaded the cottages except for them!

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This log was deposited high and dry by the waves!

The very next storm may drag it back again.

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I'm looking forward to seeing the changes brought by the storm at low tide.

Most of the time these storms drag sand down from high up on the beach covering the targets for yards out in the water.

A slight change in wind direction and the sand is tossed back onto the beach.

The buoy in left edge of this shot has been moved by the force of the waves several yards eastward along the beach by the powerful waves last night.

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It has a very heavy mooring anchor to hold large pleasure boats safely and nothing short of a major storm could have ever moved it!

It is only so close to shore because the buoy tender left it there last fall instead of dragging it ashore as he had done with a dozen or so others.

It would be a rough hunt out there today and I prefer to stay ashore and enjoy the warmth of the fire-place!

GL&HH Friends,

CJ
 
Hi Cupajo; We're having the same storms here in Boston. Difference is here when sand gets washed out it getsbwashed "ALL" the way out.It doesn't sit out on the low tide flats. But if it gets washed in we get buried,I'm dying to get a camera to start posting pics. but doing the best I can for now. By the way read the Post I sent above ok. Until later; PEACE:RONB :detecting:
 
nice pics,
thats the storm we just got rid of down here in fla....
it loaded up the beaches here,
hh
john
 
Thanks for the nice photos !
Mother nature is really pounding that beach.
The sooner she takes out that fence the better the shoreline will look.:clapping:
 
n/t
 
Thank you Fellow Hunters for your kind replies.

This should just about wrap up this series of shots!

I managed to catch the tide as it was nearing its low point and the extreme sand displacement is very obvious!

This storm drain pipe is normally buried as are the concrete yokes that anchor it in place under several feet of sand.

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The sluice-way east side is covered with several feet more sand tossed there by the storm I wrote about above. (While the west side is mostly bare.)

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The sand has been tossed high against the breakwater and only one of the ladder rungs is exposed now.

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It is a lot farther from the top of the beach to the water line now, a long very gradual down slope ending well out in the water where no doubt many targets are covered in 2-3' of sand.

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Compare these pics with the ones in the previous posts about reading a beach to see how drastic a change has occurred.

GL&HH Friends,

CJ
 
n/t
 
Thanks for your reply Friend!

I have been very impressed with the tiny water proof Fuji camera and how nice the pics have been!

I don't think I would push the 10' depth limit and have been more interested in "splash protection" rather than diving in the shallows.

I hesitate to even chance getting the camera splashed!

It works very well for my purposes and I am quite pleased with its convenience and picture quality!

I compared it with an Olympus that my wife has for picture quality using the telephoto feature and it did come up second, however it has what is called "an electronic telephoto" feature which isn't as good as a conventional lens extending for tele shots.

This is what allows them to "water-proof" the little jewel by sealing the lens into the camera body.

It is close enough for my purposes for sure and gives pics that are acceptable for posting generally.

It has an electronic "macro" photo feature also and seems to work equally well in that mode for those close up shots!

I hope that most readers are satisfied with the pics and have no problem making sense of the information!

Cj
 
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