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It's hard to understand the love affair people in the metro Philadelphia area have with our South Jersey shore towns if you're not from around here. Each of the towns has its own personality, and you develop your attachment early. Mine started with Wildwood, walking tours of san francisco maps where my parents used to take us (or as I call it now, "Las Vegas By The Sea"). Not because there's gambling (you have to go to Atlantic City for that), but because it's got the biggest, brightest, gaudiest neon boardwalk of them all.
We were poor, and I have no idea how my parents managed that week down the shore every summer. Our fun was limited, walking tours of san francisco maps and we didn't understand why we couldn't go on the rides every night, or get a pizza if we wanted. But it didn't really matter. We were at The Shore!
And Atlantic City? That's where our elderly parents like to go on day trips: $20 on the slots, the casino's cheap buffet lunch, and a walk on the boardwalk before they get on the bus to come home. Ocean City is a nice quiet place because walking tours of san francisco maps it doesn't allow liquor, and that's where I took my kids when they were little. Their boardwalk wasn't as imposing as Wildwood's, and the amusement rides weren't as big and scary. (It's also where my late parents rented a summer place after my dad retired, and my kids spent much of their summers with them.)
How much do Philadelphians love the shore? Let me put it this way: The most romantic thing I've ever seen was a man whose wife so loved the shore, he built her a beautiful scale model of Wildwood for their 25th anniversary.
Avalon . Sea Isle City . Atlantic City . Margate. Ventnor . Each town with their own kind of summer magic, and watching on TV as they disappeared under the hurricane waves made me cry like a baby -- and I haven't even stayed at the Jersey shore in over a decade. But so many wonderful memories walking tours of san francisco maps are gone with the waves:
walking tours of san francisco maps LONGPORT, N.J.--Many residents of the New Jersey coast woke up to a gray windy morning with no electricity, swamped homes, water surging in the streets -- and another high tide threatening additional flooding.
The Jersey Shore, including Atlantic City, remained under water, without power and was "completely unsafe," said Gov. Chris Christie during a televised news conference. He recited a litany of destruction including homes knocked off their foundations, beach erosion and amusement park rides pushed into the sea.
The state's transit system walking tours of san francisco maps remains closed with "major damage walking tours of san francisco maps on each and every one of the New Jersey" rail lines, walking tours of san francisco maps the governor said. Large sections of track are washed or blocked with downed power lines and debris.
"This area is pretty devastated," said James Lees of Longport, a beachfront town south of Atlantic City. "There's sand everywhere, a lot of water in garages. Down toward the southern end, they got hammered."
Back in the '80's, I resided at the Jersey Shore with my then wife in Wildwood, NJ... A finer, more caring, close knit group of folks, you could not imagine walking tours of san francisco maps - very small town in a weird "Mayberry" kind of way, but with a Northern Yankee sort of twist - I sometimes miss that cold, shitehole of a town a lot - I've long since lost touch with those acquaintances, walking tours of san francisco maps but I hope they weathered this and are doing well. There really is a magic to the ocean, and the people who choose to live close to it - especially on the northeast coast, where weather conditions are often very brutal.
...of "the shore" but of a cottage on a fishing creek that belonged to my maternal grandparents. Still, I weep with all those experiencing this horrendous event! The good thing about "memories" is that you can keep them...write them down and share them with your families and have them to refer to if the worst happens as you age. I've watched several in my family, including my mother, lose all that and if someone hasn't tried to capture and keep them they truly are GONE!
The smell of funnel cakes, and hot dogs. The salty stench of dead horseshoe crabs, breakdancers and tourists on the boardwalk - waking up at 6am in late September to a Northeast wind blowing the waves into symmetrical perfection, water is still warm - all the tourists have gone, and you paddle out with your friends into Gods perfection - yeah, I wrote it ALL down...
Pretty much the same story for my family only it was a week at Sea Isle City every year. I don't know how my parents afforded it but each year a group of families would get together for a week in July or August at the shore. Great memories. Later, in high school, it was a tradition for seniors to take off for time at the shore right after graduation. While in college, it was the place to get a summer job. Great memories.
Barrier island property owners, apart from those who managed to hand it down through generations, are almost EXCLUSIVELY wealthy. walking tours of san francisco maps And barrier islands make much less sense to build on than flood plains.
Barrier islands should not even be considered real estate. They are an impermanent, shifting protective natural barrier, essentially sand bars, and they should be left to do that job. Spending millions to try to make them permanent makes no sense, interferes walking tours of san francisco maps with natural processes, and in some cases actually increases the odds of erosion because some barrier islands are naturally forested with mangroves or whatever which helps keep them in place and prevent storm surge damage.
As a annual event setting new records for disaster into the future, billions of dollars worth of property has now become valueless, basically slowly but surely shifting into the gap between the high tide and the low tide, that low tide the place where the Koch(head) boys dwell, along with the crabs, snails and sea lice.
So whose money will win, those that own soon to be under water property or the Koch(Head) boys, keeping in mind a lot of the Mafiosa families also like to holiday on the New Jersey shores and it's their money going out with the tide.
lot of time at the beach. dad was a marine, and marine/navy bases tend to be mostly near the ocean. spent time on long island, going to jones beach every weekend in the summers. spent years in NC, going to atlantic beach/emerald isle every weekend. best thing about going to atlantic beach, was the A W Rootbear stand along 17A, we'd stop there on the way home, for burgers and rootbeer. even after we got transferred to VA, we'd go back for a couple of weeks at the beach every summer. walking tours of san francisco maps spent many, many hours fishing off the pier at emerald isle, hooked my first big shark off that pier. thing is, i learned early on, that those "islands" are, as noted above, really just big sandbars, that shift with the wind and tide. a series of aerial photos, on display at one of the local museams, which were taken over a period of 10-20 years, shows just how dramatically the barrier island's shorelines had changed. building on them is really a fool's work. had it not been for gov't guaranteed flood insurance, only the wealthy could have afforded it.
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