Patriots Day Storm in Maines (Pics)

[Ben H]

A little late but here are some pics from the Patriots Day Storm we had up here in Maine, I'm sure some of you in the SW had the same system come through with a ton of rain. The National Guard was activated, we guarded flooded bridges and kept people away from the destruction seen below. I had to spend a day on the beach. The beach got eroded, some houses lost, some gained ocean front property. There used to be two more roads along the beach plus RR tracks. This section of road is now gone.

These are some pics of the flooding at my farm, moved my cattle crossing over.

after I got back from duty...

Cleanup yesterday, another use for a bale grabber...

still had to spend a lot of time with the chain saw and lay the branches the same direction.

just had to throw this in from last weekend...

 

[Jinglebob]

Too bad about the storm. Looks like they could just as well sent it to this country. I don't think it would have flooded quite as much. :wink:

If you are tired of that tractor and set up, just bring it out ad I'll store it for you.


Thanks for the pix.

 

[Ben H]

thanks for the offer, but there is rarely a day when it doesn't get fired up.

 

[Jassy]

You can tell I'm a true Sandhills gal...I'm looking at your pictures and wondering why anyone would build that close to water in the first place. Now don't get me wrong, I love the ocean beach, but there's no way I could live there. View or no View...floods like that skeer me!

Thanks for posting the pictures and hope you recover from the damage soon...

 

[Ben H]

The destroyed houses are in Camp Ellis, Maine. Between Saco and the mouth of the Saco River. Years ago they built a Jetty of rock (you can see it in the picture, that goes down the beach and out the mouth of the river. They also dregded out there Since then waves and storms have been more powerfull and something like 43 houses have been lost since contstruction. Like I said the houses used to continue out further with two roads parralleling the beach plus a set of RR tracks going to Old Orchard Beach. These people who live there on the water had multipl houses between them and the ocean when they were kids. The locals say the water was much calmer before the dredging. The town has been saying for years they want to dump rock outh there to slow the waves down before reaching the beach. If you look at the blue house with the addition hanging out, a day before the storm there was about a foot of exposed foundation under it. The foundation is in the ocean. There used to be a road in front of the house. A VW Jetta was parked there and is now somewhere in the ocean.

Here are some picks of Kennebunkport where former Pres. Bush has a home (somwhere else along the beach).

 

[Frankk]

You can tell I'm a true Sandhills gal...I'm looking at your pictures and wondering why anyone would build that close to water in the first place. Now don't get me wrong, I love the ocean beach, but there's no way I could live there. View or no View...floods like that skeer me!

Thanks for posting the pictures and hope you recover from the damage soon...

According to John Stosell, who owns a beach front property, the American government will replace it for you at the tax payers expense. You can then build a new one just a little further back and if it gets flooded they will buy you another one and so on. He says it a great deal for you people in the Sandhills to subsidize his vacation home and thanks alot.