Post Sandy, pre cleanup pictures

Ok, so here's a couple of pictures of what Sandy did to the north beach section of Sea Bright.  These pictures were taken by me on Tuesday, 30 October, the day after the storm.

Looking south on Ocean Ave from my house.  The road is ordinarily black with a double yellow stripe down the center.

Our beach, which used to have dunes and plants and things.  The jetties are showing, we haven't seen those since the beach replenishment in 1995. This is at very low tide.

Looking north on Ocean Ave towards the Highlands bridge.  The foreground is the sidewalk, the road is to the left.

Lands End condo's sea wall deck, or what's left of it.  The only reason it didn't end up in the middle of the street is the street sign upon which it is impaled.

The sand is in the roadway.  The beach sort of moved west, onto the wrong side of the sea wall.

Normal height hydrant up to its waist in sand.

There used to be a double-stairway public beach access and deck here, this is directly across the street from my house.

Here's part of one of the missing decks that were across the street, on the sea wall.  It perched itself on top of the wall, nobody put it there.  There's another piece of it in my back yard.

Ocean Ave north to the bridge.  The sand was over 3 feet high in most of the roadway, and deeper on the sidewalk.

We really got lucky on our end of town.  I thought this was bad until I saw the rest of Sea Bright.  This is nowhere near the destruction that happened downtown, as you can see in the video linked in one of my earlier posts (Nov 5).  For the most part, the houses in north beach are intact, some have severe water damage inside, but many escaped that indignity.  Of course, the ones at ground level suffered the most.  A lot of the residents have lived here a long time, and none have ever seen anything like this storm.  I hope we never see it again.