8 Tide Nor'easter

We had a 4 day nor'easter, with 8 heavy surf supermoon tides that threw at least one boat ashore on Sagamore Beach.

We got out 2 of the 4 days in various towns, weather conditions and tides. We started in Sandwich.

Sagamore Beach turned out to be the storm hot spot, at least of the 5 beaches we checked out. Duxbury, Sandwich, Plymouth and Marshfield didn't have any boats wasing ashore.

Wet groyne

Sagamore Beach has a cool tree that has, over countless storms, obtained a sort of nor'easter tilt.

There was a steady NE wind from Friday through Monday.

A couple of other boats held up well enough, but you want to try to get these out of the water before Nor'easter Weekend.

Hopefully, homie didn't bash off thay groyne too much before beaching.

WCCC

The White Cliffs are handy because you can shoot pictures from like 6 stories up.

Shooting north from South Plymouth

Duxbury Beach is about to replace the Ocean Road South seawall. The other seawall (Ocean Road North) is like 6 feet higher or so, while being much more solidly built and reinforced. ORS will be better protected in a few weeks.

The nor'easter was a minor one, notable only for the length of it. The Outer Cape had a few towns with 10" or more of rain over the weekend. That's why I went South Shore, babe.

Once they replace the Ocean Road South seawall, the only people who can do Death Runs will be Olympic athletes.

Duxbury got a few pretty good waves while I was there.

Duxbury has also only gotten one serious test of the new wall since it went up (passed easily). There has been somewhat of a nor'easter lull the past few years.

Not that we miss damaging storms, but when a lull comes, it is usually broken with a Big Kahuna.

Duxbury was friggin' slacking on seawalls for a long time, but are about to make a Great Leap Forward as far as coastal security goes.

Almost time to put up the winter barrier, and enjoy some DBC storm video below...

Duxbury sailors (and Marshfield, from what I saw) were savvy enough to not take mid-storm sailing trips down the Cape or do any surf-zone anchoring, unlike the folks in Saggy B.

You still get a sense that a direct-hit hurricane may get the surf over the walls like '78 or '91, but we don't really get storms like that very often, and you may be born, live a full life and be lowered into a comfortable grave without seeing one hit... or we could get one in a few weeks, Mother Nature is fickle.

I was going to edit and level this shot, but doing so would take away from the fire-the-camera-out-the-window vibe of the photographer.

If you really need to be hit by a wave, park at the former Charlie's in Brant Rock.

Not storm related, but that's the former Arthur & Pat's with a toothy new mascot. They're gonna have to paint that ish back to barn red before Equalizer VII starts filming.