Here are some pictures of Buckroe Beach in Virginia were I live.

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Can you guess what this is (was)?

No more fishing pier.

Lawn ornament. Finds keepers losers weepers?

Tracie,
Is that the seawall broken up in the foreground and thus no more street? Hope Tappan Street did okay.

Chris

Yeah, that was part of it. There was significant beach erosion. We won't be holding events there anymore. (see picture)

We had about two feet of water surrounding the house. Tree came down in the back yard. We'll be without power and phones for sometime.

Hope you guys did okay. I'll email you some more pictures.

quick question,

if you're without power and phone, how are you on a computer?

Good luck and best wishes.

I'm at work.
Which is not so bad as there is nothing else to do at home. Atleast I get to go online while here; read the news etc. Be in the air conditioning. Have a *cold* drink.
Was also able to find a couple gas stations open in this area that had power. Grocery stores too.

I was talking with cat supply shop owner right before the hurricane hit...he predicted a big upswing in replacement beachcat mast orders following Isabel....


Mike.

WOW!!! I guess Dennis would need ALOT of Lumber to Build a Ramp Down to that!!!
Glad you guys are OK!!
Doug

A hell of a carnage there! Shame to see the boats tossed inland like that. In Hong Kong we have anchor points on our beach to tie our boats to during the typhoon season. A few weeks ago we had a direct hit from a typhoon with similar wind strengths to isabel and we only ended up with a few ripped boat covers in our whole hobie fleet of around 80 boats. We also have a policy that during the typhoon season, all masts have to be stepped and tied down incase a typhoon hits. Considering you get some big hurracanes on the east coast, it may be worth considering for next time!

Hope the repairs are done quickly and you can all be out on the water soon!

I'll be in Hong Kong weekend of Sept 11th & 12th.
Any chance of meeting you (or going sailing!!!)?

Jim Casto
jcasto@sbcglobal.net
NACRA 5.5 uni #456
Lake Travis, Austin, TX

When I lived in New Orleans I once took my boat apart, took the pieces inside that I could fit through the door of my second story apartment, and lashed the hulls to some bollards in the parking lot. In the pictures I noticed the owners had not even bothered to remove the tramps. Surely, some of them would have had a home farther inland. It's not as if they didn't know the hurricane was coming a week in advance.

Is that kind of like building a VW Beetle inside someone's room? Now there's a gag...take someone's cat apart and rebuild it in their house. O.K....maybe not.

No kidding - most of those boats seemed to be in pretty good shape prior to being ravaged by the storm. I too was surprised that the owners just left them to the storm (and the trailer too!). Also surprised at how well those boats survived the storm considering.

If home insurance covers this damage, I'd leave the cat out also.

That attitude costs everyone higher insurance premiums - that money has to come from somewhere. If it can reasonably be saved then it should be.

Jake,
I forgot about this picture. I couldn't figure out if the owner set it back up or if it just managed to stay upright the whole time. You might not be able to see it in tis picture because I reduced the size, but in the originial you can see grass and junk drapped over the bridle wires and the bows are also resting on ome sort of white bar.

Tracie

so, is the hatteris light house still standing???

From the Monteray Herald Friday, Sept. 19th:

"North Carolina's Outer Banks were hardest hit, with hundreds of homes and businesses damaged or destroyed. The sea carved a new inlet, 300 yards wide, through Hatteras Island...Twenty-five miles up the Banks, the Cape Hatteras lighthouse still stood tall. Authorities hope to enter the structure Saturday to check for damage."