With the sun shining and the seas subsiding, Ocean City crews on Sunday began the tedious clean-up and restoration process following Winter Storm Jonas, which hammered the resort over the weekend. It began with a moderate snow storm on Friday the dumped several inches on the resort and surrounding area.
By early Saturday morning, the snow changed over to rain and while it washed away much of the initial snowfall, the middle section of the storm included a classic nor’easter with heavy surf, moderate to severe beach erosion, moderate property damage and flooding of low-lying areas. By Saturday evening, the resort continued to take a beating from the storm, but the situation was complicated when the heavy rain changed back into snow, dumping several more inches on the area.
By Sunday morning, the storm had subsided for the most part and the sun was shining, allowing Public Works crews and other departments to begin the ominous clean-up and restoration efforts. On Monday morning, Public Works crews were bulldozing sand from the Inlet lot back into place on the beach, while other crews were piling up debris including dune fences, posts and pilings from the Wicomico Street pier, the end of which was smashed off again for the third straight storm. City Engineer Terry McGean said on Monday the end of the pier was destroyed again and it will be the responsibility of the pier operator who leases it from the city to repair and restore it.
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this is truly going to take a lot of time, effort and dollars. pray we get what's needed to do so.
ReplyDeleteIt's the nature of the beast. We always lose the pier and alot of the beach but by the summer time you will hardly notice. Our saving grace is we make the state ALOT of money during the summer. They will not want to lose all that money to NC or NJ beaches.
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