its a doozy

Good thing where "the boys" ride doesn't have a sandbar. I do think this will destroy many sandbars that were around this spring but it should also create some new ones. Wednesday should provide new surprises.

I am sure the damage will be extensive and I can only imagine beach replenishment will be in full effect the next few weeks.

 

im curious what effect these heavy north currents will have on the pretty good bar we have been working with at 48th street

 

this'll be great bethany just did a multimillion dollar beach replenishment this winter and actually made the part of the beach your aloud on smaller... now that parts gonna be even smaller... packed beaches, stayin south of that

 

Big coastal storms generally help out the sandbars, by taking sand on the beach and bringing it offshore to form sand bars.

It is when the summer time flat spells kick in that the sand bars go to crap.

 

Chad

Take time to read ''Waves and Beaches'' by Bascom and you'll understand lots more. The trick is getting the bar stabilized, that's why we need more sunken barges and huge submerged sandbags.

 

unfortunately for us the powers that be have more interest in the swimmers & tourists that make up most of thier revenue, so it's unlikely we'll get any real more stabilized bars anytime soon. But on the good side that usually means that after a storm like this if we're willing to do a little recon work we can find something good & empty

 

Sandbars

The thing I like about these storms is that they usually improve the sandbars everywhere. Even uptown OC tends to break well for a while. This speads out the crowds and gives you a chance to find a peak with nobody else except your bros..

 

Pics I took yesterday (Tues 5-13-08)

 

craziness...

the sandbars in ocean city where i surfed were good!

It was fairly weird how wide and shallow the sand bar was. When you got out to the bar, you were literally in ankle deep water. Some sketchy ones at low tide, almost like a reef, the way the water was sucking up off the sandbar. This got better when the tide turned around.

 

haha looks like bethany's beach replenishment projects were a complete waste judging from these pics... just as 90% of those projects seem to be.

they are planning to get the boat off the beach thursday at the 6pm high-tide, im planning to check it out @ or before then.

 

actually the projects and the dune replenishment did exactly what it was supposed to do, saved alot of beach and alot of ocean front property.

duh... you sound just like another neocon extra right wing wack job...

 

Its a constant fight of man against nature. If there were no beach replenishments and no coastal engineering efforts, bethany would surely go underwater. It is economically beneficial for them to spend millions of dollars doing these projects. The biggest question though, is who should be paying the bills? The city tax payers? the business owners who benefit from tourism? the state tax payers?

Strong storms and coastal erosion will happen every year - that is a given. Generally speaking, the beaches in delaware will erode during the winter, and build up during the summer time from the long shore south currents.

New Orleans on the other hand - they should just let sink.

 

Have you ever been there?

 

I have not been to New Orleans

Its a man vs nature struggle. Nature tells us that it is a very undesirable place to develop and probability tells us that New Orleans will get hit by another big storm again - its just a matter of time.

It wasn't a humanitarian statement, just one of logic.

Leaving New Orleans all together will never happen tho. People have too much pride to abandon their homeland - they would rather just continue to watch it sink.

We are short minded individuals, thinking of our generations (50-100 years), rather than long term reality.

 

Does summer ever have any good days?

 

I know that a lot of Nj's old surf spots are being ruined. Last year 7 prez. beach was always going off.. This year its ruined.

 

i say let the ocean take it, were all gonna be underwater in what like 50-100 years with global warming ? its a losing battle

 

exactly - it seems pretty obvious...you put the sand out in front of the town so the town is protected. The dunes take the hit so the boardwalk and businesses don't.