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1. SOURCE: FACEBOOK CHAPPY FERRY 2. 3. A LOOK BACK: Please go to the Noteworthy Storms album to see a few more pictures from the storm yesterday, including this image of storm waves thundering into the bluffs at Wasque Point. A report in The Vineyard Gazette this morning says that something like twenty-four feet of beach and fifteen feet of upland were lost during the gale.

The barriers you see along the beach are known as "coir logs," made of cocoanut husks, and were transported to Wasque beginning the first wee...

1. Initial report from The Vineyard Gazette of severe erosion along the south shore, including extensive washing over of Norton Point Beach (that part of South Beach that connected the Vineyard to Chappy until the Patriots' Day Storm of 2007) ...

Coastal Erosion Severe Following Island's Brush with Sandy mvgazette.com

While the Island was spared the brunt of Hurricane Sandy, reports early Tuesday confirmed severe erosion, especially on south

1. Early this morning, a sandy Chappaquiddick Point parking lot. But no lasting damage. Look at the Noteworthy Storms album for more pictures, which we are adding now. 1. I missed this shot from edgartown in the last upload. It has to be the same guy. Sharks only come close to shore when they are sick or tired... Haunted maybe? It's the only pic I have from edgartown because I was filming. But I'm posting that in a sec 1. The pier running down from the Atlantic Restaurant, past the headquarters for the Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby, Inc. to the Edgartown Yacht Club, about fifteen minutes ago. 1. Dock Street, looking from the Quarterdeck Restaurant toward the ferry landing, about fifteen minutes ago. We're having a hard time reaching the Vineyard Gazette's tide chart, but we think that this is supposedly the hour of low tide.

Oct 29, 2012 3:58 PM

1. 2Dock Street and the parking lot at the Edgartown Yacht Club. About an hour ago. bring it Sandy

1. A fresh perspective on Memorial Wharf and the Edgartown slip. bring it Sandy

1. Chappy ferry landing, about 2 p.m., three hours after high tide. Best estimate is that the water is two feet deep at the base of the ramp. Ferry ON TIME III is secured in the spare slip on the left.

More images being uploaded to the Noteworthy Storms album right now.

All pictures by ferry co-owenr Peter Wells. 1. 54Like Picture by Ivy Ashe · · Share

Felicia Cheney:

1. Capt. Wells saves me...thank you.

1. SOUTH BEACH / NORTON POINT AFTER THE STORM: Dana Gaines shot this image from the easternmost of the temporary islands created by overwash that now make up Norton Point Beach. We're looking across the main 2007 opening on a falling tide (running left to right) at about 1 p.m., October 30, 2012. The Wacks house stands near the edge of the embankment on the far side of the opening· ·

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