Duxbury Beach, MA... several more storm tides to come.
That's not supposed to be a dirt road with a salt water lake at the end... but Mother Nature cares very little for oceanfront development. That flooded meadow in the background is where some charlatan is trying to pitch a condo development.
No, that's not a stone driveway, either... or at least, it WASN'T a stone driveway. That's a front porch and a lawn. This used to be my house, btw...
My old house, again... with the new stone lawn. Duxbury Beach veterans will notice the rupture in the seawall. Once that happens, the flooding of the neighborhood (and especially the new condo development) begins in earnest.
In 1991, the ocean was level with the seawall... which meant that there was nothing to stop waves from rolling in from the mid-Atlantic and smashing directly into my house. Every time one hits, it sounds like you hid in John Bonham's drum kit.
Stairs generally work best when they make it down to the ground, but we'll give them some style points for Location.While I like this family too much to actually wish for it to happen... it'd be funny if one of them (preferably the uncle or the son) tried to go down to the beach in the dark and didn't watch that doozy of a last step!
Something that always stabs at my sympathy when storms hit this neighborhood... the guy who lives at that house landscapes one of the local golf courses. Every year, he comes home from work and tends that lawn to a degree that one could roll a smooth 60 foot putt across it. Then, almost every winter, it gets wrecked.
Yes, I know that- during times of War and Hunger- sympathy isn't meant to be spent on a guy who can't putt on his Atlantic-facing lawn this morning until he shovels a few rocks away.... but people who own oceanfont property have feelings, too. Godspeed, Double R.
In what should probably be a blog entry of its own.... the guy who used to own that house was known for doing naked Tai Chi outside at 4 AM.
The storm didn't bring down that basketball goal... that came down when some sucka gave me the lane, and I sh***ed on him.
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Mother Nature .... she is tough sometimes ... but, as I write this, it is sunny and the birds are singing. Maybe she does it so we will appreciate days like today? (and I still have about six inches of water in my formerly dry basement and I can't even think about the damage to the roof :-( )
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Gee Green Dragon.. are you ok? is your neighbor okay? my thoughts go out to you.
lots of love,natalie ps hugs
I did get a laugh out of thinking of that guy forgetting or not knowing his bottom steps were gone. In our hundred year storm, houses just dropped off into the river. Believe me, that had never happened in anyone's memory. And probably won't happen in another hundred as it is said the southwest is turning into a dust bowl out of drought. Gerry
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