Video of TS Ida hitting Dewey Beach

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1. Another Mike says:

   November 13, 2009 at 11:14 pm

   Call me reactionary, but I’m thinking under the house is the last place you’d want to be.

2. liberalgeek says:

   November 13, 2009 at 11:51 pm

   I’m with you. I’d be somewhere a lot safer.

3. Brooke says:

   November 14, 2009 at 12:45 am

   I hope people are keeping safe. 🙁

4. Suzanne says:

   November 14, 2009 at 10:39 pm

   The beach in Rehoboth Beach looks a lot worse then I thought..wow…people bitched about the big huge dune when the n beach was replenished – without that though we may not have a boardwalk today. I took some pictures this afternoon and uploaded them – they are on my blog – though, they done do the destruction justice.

5. Miscreant says:

   November 15, 2009 at 9:04 am

   There’s really not much danger unless the waves are high enough to impact exterior walls of the house. Typically, the pilings are driven 25 or more feet below the surface of the sand, usually embedded in layer(s) of hard clay. Yep, there’s clay beneath the sand.

   If you’ve ever dove in the Indian River Inlet (I have), you’d see those rocks of the jetties are resting of beds of clay, which actually erodes (slowly) because of the tidal action. That’s why the bridge is fucked up. Several years ago, before a *repair*, the pilings that the concrete supports were resting on were actually hanging suspended above the surface. Most people crossing the bridge would have shit they pants had they known that. Don’t worry, they kind of fixed that.
   Heh.

   GEOLOGY/CONSTRUCTION LESSON IS OVER.
   Resume the bullshit and politics.

6. Delaware Dem says:

   November 15, 2009 at 9:32 am

   Yeah, I knew that, miscreant. It is why I drive quickly over that bridge every time.