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| Date posted |
| November 4, 2012 1:18 AM |
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| Maybe_Tonight |
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| New York > Fire Island > Fire Island Inlet - GSB Copiague to Sayville |
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Headed out Saturday morning for the first run since Sandy steam-rolled us. Backing out of the slip I was honestly nervous over what we would see out there. Did not take long to find out, Bay Shore marina had floating docks stacked up on pilings, boats stuck under them and sunk, other boats down in their slips. Maple Ave marina had boats littered on the ground, a forklift working to get them upright. A slow easy ride to the west and we tucked into Babylon area, bay front homes literally BLOWN open, cut in half and basically doomed to be razed!!! More boats on the bottom in the creeks. Around the corner in Lindenhurst I rode up by the Anchorage Yacht Club, the scene in the creek was something out of a movie. Large sedan type cruisers deposited in yards, boats sunk after washing off their jackstands into creek and having others fall on top of them. UNREAL We ran across to the State Channel and got goose bumps seeing what was left of Frank and Dicks!! Not ALOT for sure!! Captree Boat basin docks were stripped of planks as was the fishing pier. Stripped to the pilings. Running around to the inlet I found the inlet markers WAY inside just west of the bridge. Buoys 6, 8, 10 and 4 were in there, the green 7 buoy up on the OBI sandbar. The highway leading down to the turnaround for Field Two was cutoff with hwy cones due to the roadway undermined, the Demo salt pond was opened again, Sore Thumb showing a small cut-through starting. The outer bar at Demo actually looked pretty good. As for debris, I was amazed at how little we came across. I saw a section of stockade fence off Copiague but that was it aside from peoples garbage cans floating everywhere. Not sure where all the timbers are but they have to be out there someplace. Keep your eyes peeled!! All in all an EXTREMELY disturbing trip on Great South Bay today. The damage we passed and imagining the agony it was causing was something you could feel as strongly as the big northwest wind howling all day. <like href="http://www.noreast.com/postedreports/view.cfm?id=156672" send="false" show_faces="false" width='layout="button_count"'></like> http://www.youtube.com/embed/%20kBfGZ4upEDs |
