Going Sonic
 

Sonic Booms along the Jersey Shore ?

Frantic 911 calls were made when the ground began to shake in several parts of NJ this week.

Actually, one homeowner who gave me permission to shoot Storm Jonas from his property described his house as "shaking" with every hit of a wave up against the new steel wall the state had put in along his town's Jersey Shore.

So for one resident , it is one of the same.....

VIDEO & PHOTOS from the storm CLICK HERE TO VIEW.

This first video is rather long because it was made for an Ocean Research Center.

Shorter Highlight VIDEOS are in production. The largest waves are closer to the last 10 minutes of the 1st VIDEO.

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I watched most of the video, that steel was sends the impacting wave back out to sea, that steel wall is no joke and held up greatly. Now that is apparent that the sheeting works, towns know what to do, the government knows what to do, but who pays for this wall wil be the deciding factor, a tough call in a budget constricted state, time for Menendez and Booker to earn their Senatorial paycheck and get off of their asses and petition for funding to help NJ shore towns in need.

Time to accept the fact NJ shore such as Ocean City, Wildwood, Brigintine flood, and it will not get any better, solve the problem, or face the fact the mother nature will eventually win this battle, unless the country has money like Dubai then pump, pump, all the sand you can make an island appear from the sea..

And the jet flying over NJ caused a Sonic Boom which then made ground shake like an earthquake? Hard to believe, only in NJ.

I love your stuff Tim, entertaining and informative. The Newark Star Ledger needs you, their ww.nj.com news site truly lacks the flavor you could bring.

Sorry, but i have to disagree with that the wall is working. This is not a good future for the Jersey Shore if they leave it this way. They need to figure a way to duplicate what is happening just a few short miles south of Mantoloking and Brick. Here is a photo of Lavallette's Beach after Jonas. Perhaps they are at higher sea level ? I do not know for sure, but I do know is their dunes are growing. I do know they have many jetties just like Manasquan who also did very well in this storm, but they had their beach replenishment already done. Waves need to lose their energy before reaching the beach. I personally think they should have put the rock wall in the ocean, let the sand build up behind it and create it's own sand bar. The rocks don't even need to be viewable to the surface, just the shallowness will make the waves break offshore and not on the beach at full energy. The wall doesn't take away any of the wave's energy creating one hell of a rip current and carrying away all of the sand. Ortley Beach alone is looking at having to truck in over 3000 truck loads of replacement sand. How can anyone continue to pay for sand replenishment after every storm?

Perhaps the people providing the sand do not want to see a solution?

They get paid to suck it up and then they turn around sell it back to the state...

Lavallette

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Manasquan

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How about one day a family with kids and or a dog comes to the beach and it looks like this:

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Then they come back another day not realizing the sand is gone?


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A dog that breaks free from a leash or kids go off running towards the water and suddenly they go flying off a (in this case) almost a 25 foot drop! I stood next to that short piece that supports the wall. As a reference, I and 5'9" and reached as I high as I could, there was at least another 2 feet above my hand on that short support making it at least 8 feet exposed.


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Fortunately, as of Thursday , only about 4 ft of that short support was sticking out. We gained back about 4 ft of sand which is typical after the storm rolls out.

Tim I dont know witch method works best, I like the idea of rock pile jettys, because from the time I was born until I was a senor in high school our family spent two weeks to month in Brigintine NJ. The beach had rock piles, up and down the beach, as a kid I would explore the pools of water left behind and would find starfish, and even a seahorse one day. Now as to affectiveness of the rock pile it deos seem to help with beach erosion, but Brigintine must not be elevated above sea level that much as compare to most beach towns at all hence the flooding, my $.02 guess.

I certainly do not like the aethetics of the wall, as a resident I am for whatever works, whatever is more cost effective, rocks do not corrode, so the life span of each needs to be addressed, I am rock pile guy, but this is a topic that I am not educated on, other than appearance. Plus walking the rock piles at Manasquan Inlet, and in Cape May in recent years....I enjoy that.

I am easily persuaded, rock pile it is.

Saturday afternoon in the wintertime talking about rockpiles.....yeah that kind of slow day

Hahahaha .... Not slow here.
I am trying to identify areas of the beach that I shot "Pre-Sandy" for this next video I am working on. Thank God I started organizing things by town and identify them more today prior to uploading.

Mantoloking 3 months before Sandy:

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Same beach after Sandy:

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I mentioned to you a few years ago to put together your before and after Sandy New Jersey Beach pictorial book, I think that would be great, and if the general public consumer doesn't bite, then the will be the differing local, state, federal agencies may be very intertested in pictures for any new zoning, beach replenishment, effectiveness of changes made post Sandy; and don't forget the environmentalists who will utilize your pictures in the direct opposite argument the government/state advocate just got done arguing that used the same picture you took.

You keep busy, I wish I was busy, today

I agree the wall was a poor idea. While it may protect the homes behind it, for now, it does nothing to prevent erosion. In fact, one could almost think otherwise, as it does nothing to dissipate the wave energy, but rather just cause it to rebound, how much sand is carried outward on that rebound? Lavallette has had its share of heavy erosion over the years, even with the jetties, but when one storm would take it away, the next storm from another direction, would bring it back. The cost of that wall should have been put to artificial reefs, which would help stop erosion, as well as provide other benfits