Everyone loves a beach town in the summer when the sun is warm and the beaches welcoming. But come the winter and it’s another story.
Down in the numbered avenues of Sandhills, the collapse of the seawall has led to catastrophic flooding. This street isn’t normally beachfront property. A road leading to the beach, yes, but not the beach itself.
First you survive the storm and then you chin up and clean up. And as bad as it is down here, it could have been much worse – things, no matter how precious, are only things and can be replaced. Our firefighters and rescue personnel, police and other town workers worked throughout the blizzard to keep everyone safe and no lives were lost.
It could have been so much worse.
Please stop by the word from Old Scituate Light for a blow-by-blow account of this blizzard. The Light is in excellent hands with Bob Gallagher serving as caretaker.
Great post. I can’t believe what I’ve seen on the news. Incredible stuff.
I’ll be honest – I have my elementary schooler home this week on vacation, and between wanting to shield her from the worst of it and being mindful of her safety (I might drive down certain roads if I’m by myself, and if I get into trouble, well, it’s my problem – but if I have a little kid in the car, that’s a horse of another color) I have not gone much beyond the very edges of the worst of it.
We got off lucky in that no one was seriously hurt or died – but that’s not the same thing as saying we got off easy. Local officials are describing this as the worst flooding since the No Name/ Perfect Storm in 1991.
This is some bad flooding. Somehow it seems even worse with the freezing temperatures.