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Maine cabin swept away by winter storm waves before landing on shore
New York Post ^ | Jan. 14, 2024

Posted on 01/14/2024 10:12:16 PM PST by nickcarraway

Video shot Wednesday captures the moment a cabin was swept onto a rocky shore in the town of Owls Head.

Located in southern Maine, Owls Head experienced a winter storm Tuesday with winds powerful enough to push water onto the shore and flood homes.

After the storm, the water level reached nearly 14 feet by Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. This exceeds the area’s flood stage of 12 feet. The video begins with the cabin in the water about 9:15 a.m. According to C.L. Alden, who shot the footage, the cabin came from a small island nearby.

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1 posted on 01/14/2024 10:12:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Maybe the owners can move into that “Luxury Apartment” building they made for the somalis, and like the somalis, get the taxpayers to pay for their stay until they get back on their feet. No?


2 posted on 01/14/2024 10:18:09 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: nickcarraway

Hopefully it was unoccupied. I scanned the article so I might’ve missed any news about the residents.


3 posted on 01/14/2024 10:32:04 PM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: nickcarraway

Impressive!


4 posted on 01/14/2024 10:32:50 PM PST by G Larry ("XFKAT" We can't keep spelling out "X Formerly Known As Twitter"!)
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"Maine cabin swept away by winter storm waves before landing on shore"
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I didn't know that a cabin could have arms/hands to wave with! Impressive that the cabin could wave while floating out to sea & back in to the shore!! 😜
5 posted on 01/14/2024 10:39:24 PM PST by Drago
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To: nickcarraway

Call the Maine Cabin Masters!


6 posted on 01/14/2024 11:30:48 PM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: nickcarraway

My woke azz social justice, BLM supporting, environmentalist brother that I haven’t spoken with in 14 years or so lives in Owls Head in the same house he bought back in 74.

I’m sure he’s bitching about climate change caused by right wing extremist.


7 posted on 01/15/2024 4:33:02 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Drago

Read the headline six times or more and still do not get it. Swept away before it lands?!


8 posted on 01/15/2024 4:46:01 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (In a world of parrots and lemmings, be a watchdog.)
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To: maddog55

My environmentalist brother in law lives on Southport island, and sent video footage of this same house (that he filmed) as it actually untethered. I thought it would be his video that the Post used, but it’s not. He’s such a know-it-all. He used to be a nice enough guy years ago, but he’s become unbearable to be around for very long about 15-20 years ago. Always some argument when he’s around now. Don’t know how my SIL lives him.


9 posted on 01/15/2024 5:25:49 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

I call my mother, a lifelong democrat who will be 90 this year, (who also lives a short way from Owls Head) every Sunday. Yesterday she said; “What do you think of the news about Maine?”

I said; “The states run by idiots but they keep getting elected by people like you. How do you feel about illegal immigrants getting free housing for 2 years in new apartments in Brunswick at your expense?”

She huffed and said “ I was talking about the weather. I don’t talk politics with you!”


10 posted on 01/15/2024 6:52:04 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: nickcarraway

This is the biggest storm since 1978.

Between the Tonga volcanic activity and the spring tides storm surge which refers not to seasons but to the alignment of the moon and sun gravitational pull. .. the tides are high.


11 posted on 01/15/2024 7:06:11 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Fester Chugabrew

Yep !


12 posted on 01/15/2024 8:27:01 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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To: maddog55

I got a good chuckle out of your conversation with your Mom.


13 posted on 01/15/2024 9:01:52 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Chickensoup

This is the biggest storm since 1978.

The Ice Storm of 1978 will fight you on that.

This has been our third storm in about two weeks. Two have been wind and rain events and the third was a standard snowstorm that dropped 8 t 10 inches. That snow is now gone.

Owls Head is not in southern Maine. It is in Midcoast Maine. Not sure why this shack got the NY Post coverage, as an even more iconic set of fishing shacks collapsed into the sea in South Portland Maine.

https://www.wmtw.com/article/willard-beach-fish-shacks-historic-flooding-maine/46372867


14 posted on 01/15/2024 9:09:21 AM PST by Steven Scharf
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Pictures of another building destroyed by the storm in Georgetown.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/409983993142875/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=1628492521292010

The article refers to “Southwest of Owls Head in the community of Georgetown” Owls Head is 40 miles as the crows flys from Georgetown. Probably at least 60 miles by car.


15 posted on 01/15/2024 9:25:33 AM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: Steven Scharf

78 had a number of storms. The spring tide storm was the most notable. Hellbthe next year there was a flooding storm that left cars up to their aerials in stroudwater. I was there.


16 posted on 01/15/2024 1:47:04 PM PST by Chickensoup
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To: Steven Scharf

Oops, that should have been 1998.


17 posted on 01/15/2024 2:14:26 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: maddog55

I had to laugh at your convo with your mother, but I’m sure it’s no fun to live with. At least you can see how your brother turned out that way. My condolences. Many families have this condition now.

When I was growing up learning about the Civil War, we were taught it was often “brother against brother”, and groups would split off into northern and southern sympathizers — during the CW, there were two Methodist churches in the same block in the next town up from us, one for the blues and the other for the grays. And now, many of us are beginning to feel how these things could happen.


18 posted on 01/15/2024 6:40:36 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Funny you bring up the Civil War... I left Maine in 1980 after joining the Navy. Been all over the world and lived south of the Mason Dixon line ever since. Wife and I retired and live in Georgia. I consider myself a gray now !!


19 posted on 01/16/2024 4:18:08 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55

Yep. “Born American; Southern by the grace of God.”


20 posted on 01/16/2024 12:57:52 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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