I wiped away the weeds & foam. / I fetched my sea-born treasures home... Ralph Waldo Emerson







Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Storm Update ~ All is Well Except there's Flies!



Hi! Thank you everyone for sending safe wishes and prayers and kind thoughts! Jose was not much a threat but ya never know! Quick post to show you some photos.

Yesterday despite the wind and rain I had to go to town for a much postponed doctor appointment. You know how on the expressway, there's the signs that say, "Acc'dt Rt 30, 4 Hour Delay"?, well, here they use portable versions and they were busily saying "Coastal Overwash, Road May Flood Without Warning." Well, gee.
Anyway the ride was uneventful and since the weather was crappy there was even a parking space for me. The MD's office is right on the boardwalk, which I suppose gives him lovely coffee and surfing breaks, but there is usually no parking for miles; one has to be dropped off and picked up. No cell phone service either, a dead zone. It's annoying..





The fences are erosion protections, installed each fall until April.









Only a few surfers, shore break instead of good waves here yesterday.



The doctor's office building is to the left.


Slightly better waves down a couple blocks, but the jetty makes it iffy here.





When I got home, this was the view from my deck, I was too tired to hike down. Usually waves aren't visible over the dunes. These are about 1/2 to 3/4 of  a mile away.





Later the sunset turned the world violet lavender. Very eerie and beautiful.








Today I walked out to see how the beach fared. All looks fine!










 That's water, midline in the photo, usually sandy beach.






This is a swale that, while not man made is maintained by conservation department. It acts as a catch basin, so water floods into the swale[s] and not over the upper dunes. Usually there is little or no water here.


The dark areas show how the storm waves came up to the outer dunes but then went on into the swale without damage.


This is looking in the other direction. See the black fence pole? The swale cut is that notch behind it, then the swale runs along the boardwalk between the lower and upper dunes. It's dug out each spring to form low ground.


And look who ran over to say Hi! If it's not the real Gully, we can pretend.


But even as I stood to take these photos, swarms of large biting horseflies attacked! I looked down to see what bit me and my legs looked like I was wearing black polka dot leggings. I screamed and hustled back to Mo's and my bench in probably record time. Let's hope lots of birds reappear to gobble the flies up!


Mo and I retreated to the sewing room. HTs on deck!, 2 Silent Night stars completed.



love

lizzy



gone to the beach....




13 comments:

  1. Your beach photos are very nice.

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  2. I love revisiting the beaches of my youth here on your blog, but I had conveniently forgotten the scourge of horseflies. Those I do not miss at all!

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    1. Never saw flies like this! Usually we do not have biting bugs, too windy.
      :-(

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  3. Glad you were spared the brunt of the storm, and I hope Maria fizzles out before it hits the east coast too.

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  4. Looks like the swale did its job. Glad there were not more severe problems.

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  5. Grateful to hear all is well. Flies! Pesty!

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  6. "The sea was angry that day, my friends" Lol. It looks so beautiful, and the sunset! My gosh, how lovely. Hi Gully!

    Your MD's office...yes, very nice for the doctor, but dang, what a pain in the butt for patients. I remember photos you posted of that area after Sandy. Hope it was a good visit. I went to a doctor's appointment yesterday, I left wondering why a phone call wouldn't have been sufficient. Bless his heart, he paid more attention to the Coastal Living magazine I had brought, lol.

    Forgot to ask @ last blog post...why the surfers don't like people taking photos? Surfers might be an odd lot. Out here, they are sooo impatient with newcomers.

    Thanks for sharing Lizzy, always good to see what's happening in your neck of the woods.

    Kel

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    1. Hi, doctor was routine tests, I might get a panicked call on Monday, who knows.

      I guess the surfers like their privacy, as opposed to a strange mom-like woman taking pix? I ve never had any real confrontations there but I get some dirty looks and stares. I had a guy go off on me at the dog park tho, he was scary! I kept saying, I did NOT take a picture of you or yourfreakin'[ugly] dog. Made me scared to go there alone. Big waves draw surfers from all over, so it's not always guys I know.

      Maybe your doc will upgrade his waiting room mags if he liked Coastal Living?

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  7. I'm glad the trek to the doctor went okay. Seems kind of odd choice for an office location! Love all the beach photos; that last one is my favorite with the sky all blue and lavender, so pretty!

    Ugh, horseflies! Is there any good reason for them to exist?! I hope you didn't get too many bites.

    Take care!

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    1. The building above his ground floor office is condos, maybe he lives there? I never asked, bec we have a smidge of a language barrier.

      The flies have teeth, I swear! I had little bleeding gouges, just awful. You know we never have flies or mosquitoes, how I always brag, so it was a shock.

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  8. So glad all is well except for those damn flies. I remember those from my beach days in Jersey. Nasty. Happy Autumn! :) Kit

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