Friday Afternoon - as the weather improved, the humidity climbed, water
levels dropped quickly, some folks got power back, and well, some of us got
bored. So we off biking around the neighborhood...
Out at Bay Ridge, the south-eastern point off of the Severn River, there
is pretty significant "beach erosion"
Bay Ridge's eastern coast took the brunt of Isabel's SE winds and the
storm surge at the same time.
Some road washout, no power yet to be seen
Fortunately most of the homes themselves seemed to come through
OK. Unfortunately not all did.
I thought they were known as beach cats not lawn cats
These folks used to be water front, now the beach as moved and their are
now beach front.
Back at SSA and EYC by about 4:30, SSA is re-emerging...
As are the docks at EYC. Much to our relief, most of
the docks themselves did survive. We had thought from the volume of
debris that all that was left were the pilings
The surge was not however kind to floating lifts
Here you can see the high water mark pass through the middle of the
parking lot
On the water side of the clubhouse, there is LOTS of debris
That's about it for the interesting pics that I
took of Hurricane Isabel. One last positive note... both SSA and EYC
put out calls for volunteers to come help out... both clubs had tremendous
responses and look great after their hard day's work
EYC's bar and kitchen (both of which were lucky enough to stay dry)
were open and being typically abused on Saturday Night.
SSA's snack and lunch kitchen was pretty badly watered damaged, but the
rest of the club should be back in action next weekend. (Sat 27th).
AYC is closed until Tuesday when it intends to be reopen on its normal
schedule and they have the extra challenge of hosting 68 J/22 at the Rolex
Women's International Keelboat Regatta next week. But they
swear they'll be ready.
Road Trip's normal slip next to the white sloop, looks in far far
better shape than we expected. We won't have to shop for alternate
home for her after all.
