hurricane sandy aftermath

[Beth Carter]

had a short day at work yesterday, just 7 hours.. and spend 6.5 of it riding around the state looking for roadway issues - flooding and structural damage. and the boss said i might as well stop by the beach and check out the parking lots and a hotel on the boardwalk that is hosting the union conference that was supposed to be today (now scheduled for tomorrow-saturday as the hotel didn't have power). there wasn't much damage, just a few streets were still flooded about a block away from the ocean.

they told me before i left not to go down to the inlet bridge.. the governor was there and a bunch of other big wigs. and the national guard and some deldot maintenance guys are using bulldozers to push 3' of sand off of the highway.

leipsic, delaware (located almost halfway up the state on the coast):


lewes, delaware (southern part of the state)


the rest are rehoboth beach which is a few minutes south of lewes.

 

[Pete Askew]

Excellent Beth. Love the partially submerged boardwalk. It is difficult to get a real impression of the contrast that the closed businesses and boarded up pizza place must present. But I guess these are normally busy places. A great record though.

 

[Beth Carter]

thanks pete. beach season is over here, has been for a few weeks so those businesses are either closed for the winter or half staffed (grottos). but they usually don't have plywood over the windows. i think the oddest picture of the series (and what i forgot to mention) is the stairs on the beach. there aren't any stairs or boardwalk at that particular beach. they washed up sometime during the storm.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Brings a whole new meaning to under the boardwalk Beth!

Love that first shot

Glad you came through ok - some truly shocking damage on the east coast in places

 

[Brian Moore]

I like these shots you've posted, Beth. (Just wish it hadn't been so rough.)

 

[Beth Carter]

thanks chris and ryan. like i said before, we were really lucky. pretty much everything with major damage were vacation homes. poor people in new jersey and new york really got hammered.

we run an AM radio station at work where we broadcast traffic and construction messages for delaware and the 95 corridor all day long, probably wins for the most boring station in the world. today we were playing messages to tell people that only passenger vehicles with 3 or more people were permitted into manhattan, i guess they have a shortage of parking spaces.