Posted on 05/20/2022 6:58:52 AM PDT by frogjerk
The Jersey Shore is not known for having cliffs on its beaches, but after a storm wiped out a massive amount of sand, some cliffs as tall as 6 feet were left. And one town won't be able to open beaches in time for the unofficial start of summer.
With the unofficial start to summer quickly approaching and AccuWeather meteorologists forecasting temperatures in the 90s for areas along the East Coast this weekend, the summerlike weather is bound to make many people eager to grab their towels and head to the beach, but one part of the beach on the Jersey Shore won't be opening anytime soon.
Due to a recent storm that had stalled off the coast earlier this month, some beaches along the Jersey Shore don't have enough sand to accommodate beachgoers.
The Jersey Shore encompasses about 141 miles of beaches bordering the Atlantic Ocean, and tourism is the economic lifeline for many of the beach towns along that stretch of coastline. Each time a coastal storm rolls through, residents of Ortley Beach, which is roughly 45 miles north of Atlantic City, are reminded of the ongoing erosion that is eating away the beach and damaging dunes throughout the barrier island.
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I had to check to see if this was the Babylon Bee.
Might as well be...
Sand on beaches comes and goes and comes again
You don’t need a “beach” to hang out at the shoreline. Sand gets in everything anyway...
some cliffs as tall as 6 feet were left...
This must be Fake News, all those Beaches were supposed to be 10 feet under water 20 years ago from man made global warming.
I believe they actually haul it in in Va.
so is the implication that global warming is causing the beach erosion?
Crush all that recycled glass into a fine powder, mix it with sand and voila you have a beach.
BYOS - Bring your own sand.
If the officials of these eroded beaches were smart they would wave the beach access fee for anyone bringing a 40lb bag of playground sand. lol
Plenty of Coney Island Whitefish for all, though...
“Weather”: It’s a b!tch. /s
Seriously, though, I was shocked that the article NOT ONCE referenced ‘climate change’ or ‘rising sea levels’ as a cause.
This was the most honest, real-science beach article I’ve read in 20 years.
I must be dreaming. /s
I believe they actually haul it in in Va.
so that beach never had sand ?
Recently in Nice France I was surprised to see truckloads of rock about the size of ping pong balls being brought in to cover the beach.
“I believe they actually haul it in in Va.”
They have a dredging ship offshore which sucks up sand from the ocean floor and shoots it onto the beach. Then bulldozers come in and groom the beach. It really is a sight to see.
The only problem is once the beach is groomed, it begins to identify as a pond named Shirley.
Ha!
I recall Miami hotels doing that offshore dredging thing.
One would walk around near the outlet pipes and obtain amazingly large and intact conch shells and the like.
This happens on west coast too...came once after winter to find cliffs 15 ft high, on a beach that normally was a gradual walk to.
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