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Photo credit to Mark Lundin
I’m down in the Outer Banks town of Duck North Carolina, on vacation with the family. We were very worried about early forecasts that had tropical storm Fay tracking up the Atlantic seaboard toward us and possibly increasing to hurricane strength. Instead, Fay made a hard left turn across Florida, making landfall on three occasions. You could tell the emergency response teams all along the OBX were ready for any contingency
Maryland is no stranger to big storms. In September 2003, hurricane Isabel wreaked havoc all over Maryland. BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport reported 3.2 inches of rainfall and Annapolis saw storm surge of over seven feet. See Mark Lundin’s excellent photo gallery of the flooding in Baltimore from Isabel.
Today the Baltimore Sun has a fine retrospective on the Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane of 1933. This storm was so severe it cut a swath in the land between Ocean City and Assateague, which we now know as the Ocean City Inlet.
Maryland acted quickly to expand the 250 feet wide four foot deep cut Mother Nature had provided. Maryland fisherman now had direct access to the ocean and fishing fleets from other parts of the Atlantic seaboard now had a new port of call.
The storm caused $17 million in damage, but it started the process of turning Ocean City into the resort town we now know.
Note: Post title from Jimmy Buffett
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