I find this video amazing. Mantoloking is a small town in NJ that is a narrow strip of land between the Barnegat Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. I spent a few summers down there. One of the historical bits I found fascinating is that somebody once tried to cut a channel between the Ocean and the Bay there, it's so narrow. Well sand filled it up and eventually it took the Army Corp of Engineers to build the Point Pleasant Canal which, anybody who has gone out of it in a boat, knows the kind of force the water exerts. Riding a 20' power boat through there can be exhilarating.
Apparently, Hurricane Sandy did what man could not.
You can see what Lyman Street used to look like here:
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That's sobering to say the least. I don't know how you would even begin to fix something like that.
Curiously, Lyman Street isn't where they tried to dig the channel.
If you look on a map, you'll see that the only other way to get to the southern end of Mantoloking is to take the Herbert Street bridge (and you have to go back around the Metedeconk through Brick to get to the bridge) which is out of commission because there's a house on it and the homes on the Mantoloking side are all on fire.
ReplyDeleteNot good.
"There's a house on the bridge" is one of the better excuses for a bridge being out of commission.
DeleteAnd horrifying.
The Toronto Islands used to be a peninsula until a storm came along and did something like this.
ReplyDeleteThe effects of this storm in terms of surge are simply incredible. Short of a Tsunami I've never seen anything like it.
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