Tues Aug 30th

This morning it is 65 degrees here at the beach. The water is 73 we have a lite NNE at 5.

The work done in Holgate yesterday was at the bulkhead area of the entrance where a lot of dirt had been lost. We will keep you updated on the entrance.

The snappers and blowfish have returned to the street end anglers. Crabs are sharing the crab traps with blowfish. We had no surf reported fish yesterday but the water was cleaning up.

When I think of hurricanes I always think of along the coast with the major part of it being the winds. Irene has had so much rain for our friends inland who had already had so much rain thru out the month of August.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all affect by the flooding and wishing you the best in the situation that Mother Nature has put you in.

Please be careful.

By LEE PROCIDA and RICHARD DEGENER, Press Staff Writers pressofAtlanticCity.com | 0 comments

Taken from AC Press

Hurricane Irene robbed relatively little sand from South Jersey's shores this past weekend, sparing the region dramatic beach erosion that many feared just a week before visitors return for Labor Day weekend.

Parts of Atlantic City, Long Beach Township and Cape May had somewhat smaller beaches in the storm's wake, but the effects were nowhere near what locals said they have witnessed during lower-profile storms in the past.



On Long Beach Island, Surf City finished a $4.7 million replenishment project in June, and Mayor Len Connors said the larger beaches mostly held firmagainst Irene.

Likewise, Long Beach Township Mayor Joseph Mancini said the areas of his municipality largely weathered the storm with little impact, saying they were lucky that the hurricane's strength subsided before it hit the area.

No major erosion was reported in Harvey Cedars, which underwent a $25 million beach-replenishment project last year.

Brant Beach, an area notorious for losing sand to surging waves, was further worn down, while the entrance to Holgate was entirely lost, and might not be rebuilt until the end of the week, officials said.

The township is in the process of fixing the entrance so we can get out on the refuge," Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge Manager Virginia Rettig said. "We've just barely gotten on to the north end of the refuge to poke around. But as far as refuge habitat, we have no idea what's happening."

Brant Beach is also set for a several-million-dollar replenishment project this fall, Mancini said.

Besides that, we had less damage than we would have seen in past nor'easters," he added.

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