To All Strathmere
and Whale Beach Homeowners and Visitors,
On Friday, Cape May County officials declared a
mandatory evacuation for the barrier islands by
Sunday - http://www.co.cape-may.nj.us/
Ocean City officials are saying that access to Ocean City
from the mainland will be restricted at some point on Sunday. See story
at - http://oceancity.patch.com/
The Sea Isle City website says there will be a voluntary
evacuation on Saturday and a mandatory evacuation on Sunday October 28th
prior to 9:00PM. At that time all access roads to all barrier islands will be
closed - http://www.sea-isle-city.nj.us/
We believe that this could be an extremely bad
storm for Strathmere. The exact track and landfall are not clear, but
it looks like the storm will make landfall between the Delmarva peninsula and
New York City, with us targeted almost in the middle.
If the storm comes ashore south of us, we're afraid we
could have four feet or more of water on our streets.
We're also worried that it will hang around for multiple
high tides (recall that in '62 that storm stayed for five high tides), and the
water could get even higher.
If it comes ashore north of us (as Irene did), we'll be on
the back side of the ccw winds, which means we'll get "blowout" winds and very
low tides (but we will still almost certainly have flooding from the severe 6"
to 12" of rain)...
It seems we'll be lucky(?) in one sense, that although
there will be a full moon on Monday, predicted high tides are seven or eight
inches below those normally predicted around a full moon.
Predicted high tides:
Sunday: 7:36am 4.5 feet; 7:53pm 4.0
feet
Monday: 8:12am 4.6 feet 8:31pm 3.9
feet
Tuesday: 8:48am 4.6 feet 9:09pm 3.8
feet
Wednesday: 9:23am 4.6 feet 9:47pm 3.6
feet
Thursday: 9:58am 4.5 feet 10:25pm 3.5
feet
Our advice - don't stay on a barrier island for
this one! Be safe!
Coming back: check out the websites above
to see when access roads will reopen. Upper Township does not seem to have
anything on their site relating to Sandy. We'll try to send out some newsletters
if we have power at our evacuation site (and you have power to receive
them).
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Thanks very much for your continuing support of
the Strathmere Improvement Association!
Linda Bateman
Elaine Holsomback
Donna Diefenderfer
Dorothy Addario
K
en Weaver
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