June 28 2015 Coastal Storm

A coastal storm with winds out of the northeast dump a lot of rain and kicked up some high surf. I traveled out to north end of Plum Island during the storm hoping to get some photos of the waves crashing over the jetty. As the photos show, a dense fog bank obscured much of the jetty. I tried to use an umbrella to protect the camera from the wind driven rain but all it did was become a big sail!

All of the barges had been brought into the beach area and anchored to protect them against the strong winds and high surf. I went back the next day and got some video of the waves breaking over the Salisbury jetty. As you can see from the video, the waves and high tide cover the broken sections of the jetty. The repaired sections are several feet above the high tide mark.

The day after the storm ...