The storm took out quite a lot of beach, as you can see from these pictures. To give you an idea what it used to look like, there was about a 5 foot length of the deck that connected the walk over the dune line to the switchback ramp portion. As you can see, you would need lots more than 5 feet now to reach the ramp! We estimate that approximately 45 feet of the depth of the dune is now gone. The dune height remains the same.
Sadly, my cuckoo clue box, Chesapeake Sunset, appears to have been removed sometime after the storm, perhaps when the city barricaded the end of the decking.
When walking the beach 2 days after the storm, we saw many people doing the same. One group of men were moving a catamaran down the beach. Amazingly, it was the only boat we saw that had no damage. How could this be? Well, it had been buried in the dune by the last major storm 2 years ago. This storm uncovered it and moved it 8 blocks down the beach! These folks were happy to have their boat back!
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