The following is from the Township
Website:
Notice: Township of Upper
Strathmere and Whale Beach update:
Access will be permitted beginning at 1:00
PM
Access is ONLY from Ocean City, and residents MUST show
identification with a Strathmere or Whale Beach address
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To All Strathmere and Whale
Beach Homeowners and
Visitors,
It’s beginning to look like they will open access to the barrier
islands sometime tomorrow, although certainly nothing is guaranteed. See links
below...
If you’ve been watching TV, it’s pretty obvious that Strathmere was
really lucky. Apparently the center of the storm came ashore in the vicinity of
Atlantic City, meaning we were south of it and did not get the brunt of the
onshore winds like places north of the center. Long Beach Island was devastated
and locations farther north in New Jersey sustained great damage, as did lower
Manhattan. Of course the damage to the Avalon approach to the Townsends Inlet
Bridge shows that the storm south of the center was really something
also.
Strathmere homes appear to have very little structural damage,
although the water was high enough to get into many houses that haven’t been
raised, and they may need floor replacements... We also understand that a high
percentage of docks along the bay were severely damaged or are gone. The ocean,
for the most part, did not come over our dunes in force, so most of the water in
town came from the bay, meaning we did not get as much sand in the streets as in
many of the bad northeasters in memory.
Whale Beach was a different story, as the ocean did come through
there.
As to returning, that appears to be a county
decision, as they plan to open access to all the barrier islands in Cape May
County at the same time.
Here is the link to the Cape May County Website, which may post
reopening news first: http://www.co.cape-may.nj.us/
Both communities north and south of Strathmere have postings of
interest.
Sea Isle City: http://www.sea-isle-city.nj.us/
NOTE: Ocean City just announced that as of noon today, they
would open access at both 9th and 34th Street for OC
residents, business owners and property owners, who must show
ID.
Here is Upper Township’s “Sandy”
website”: http://www.uppertownship.com/Emergencies/town_hall_closure.htm
After Irene, Route 55 backed up south of Millville because Route 49
was closed going to Tuckahoe due to flooding. We’re not aware of any closures
there now, but here is the Cumberland County website location which does have a
lot of closures of their county roads (mostly near the Maurice River on the
Delaware Bay side): http://www.co.cumberland.nj.us/controls/NewsFeed.aspx?FeedID=3971
We won’t put pictures in this edition, because so many folks have
posted so many great pictures. We want to especially thank Ted Kingston, Greg
Bennett and Brian Riordan for the pictures they posted on
Facebook.
Many of those were re-posted on the Strathmere
Improvement Association Facebook Page by Linda Bateman (from sunny Fresno,
California). We urge you to go to the SIA
Facebook webpage and check out the pictures and information there. You may
have to sign up to Facebook, but you do not have to post anything – you can just
“look!
Once Carol Baker got power back at her home in Ocean View, she also
posted many pictures - and also emergency / return info on the Strathmere Blog,
here: http://www.strathmere.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Carol, for all that info.
Note that some of our firefighters have been able to return, but that
won’t get you back in.
Wait for the “All Clear” for property owners before going
back – hopefully on one of the links above.
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Thanks very much for your continuing support of
the Strathmere Improvement Association!
Linda
Bateman
Elaine Holsomback
Donna Diefenderfer
Dorothy Addario
Ken Weaver
Elaine Holsomback
Donna Diefenderfer
Dorothy Addario
Ken Weaver
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