05-13-2008, 08:27 PM
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I called it, now the MSM is catching up:
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news...noreaster.html
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Despite what ultimately could be a scramble for Shore towns trying to quickly ready the beaches for visitors in a couple of weeks, some experts say yesterday's storm could have been much worse.
Yesterday's nor'easter left significant beach erosion up and down the New Jersey coast.
From Long Beach Island south to Cape May, the storm chewed cliffs of sand as high as 12 feet into the dunes in towns such as Atlantic City, Ocean City and Avalon.
The severe beach damage comes just days before the unofficial start of summer - the Memorial Day weekend.
In Ocean City, officials deployed front-end loaders and other heavy equipment to begin grooming the sand.
Coastal storms are common in winter, but the "Mother's Day Storm of 2008" acted as if it had wandered into the wrong season.
"It's very unusual to get it in May," said Jim Eberwine of the National Weather Service.
The nor'easter - so named for the onshore winds it generates out of the Northeast - was spawned by a storm in the Ohio Valley that transferred its energy to the southeast coast, Eberwine said. It moved slowly northeast yesterday.
"It's a perfect setup for bringing up this kind of wind and wave action and tidal flooding," he said.
It's a common setup in winter, but not in May.
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