Apres Storm

Last look was during the storm, so we’ll wrap this up with an “after the storm”, report.  Here’s a time history of the maximum gusts (blue) and the barometric pressure (gray) starting midnight (M) through noon (N) on the first through about noon yesterday

 

We didn’t experience the 60 – 70 mph gusts reported elsewhere, but 55 is sporty enough. If you would like to see real time what’s going on up on the Feeder’s roof, click here

Yesterday morning, there was remaining evidence of the storm as the water was as low as we could remember, the westerly winds forcing the water from the river out into the Bay.

We don’t remember seeing the waves breaking beyond our neighbor’s pier.  During my neighborhood recon trip (see below) I ran into our landscape guy who was out doing tree duty, and he said he was going  just walk out and harvest oysters.

So as I said, I decided to drive around our “hood” and found a lot more evidence of the force of the winds man made things:

As well as things that took Mom Nature a while to erect

                

                                                   

And those are just what you can see from our streets, all within our Neighborhood.

After that,  MFO had some errands to do around town, and I rode along, seeing more damage

(Our New Nissan dealer)

While parked in Wildewood Center with MFO going inside a store, I watched the State Police helo going round and round, perhaps training in the still pretty brisk wind.

And there were also other birds training, providing “traffic”

And finally, to inject a tiny bit of food content, the good folks at Golden Corral wanted us to know about their “Butterfiy” shrimp being served for your “Diner” and maybe a harbinger of things to come if they don’t pay their rent

So we bid adieu to winter storm Riley, which left many monuments

                    

If I were to go for the Butterfiy shrimp, I don’t think I would bother

DFD