Breakthrough: The Continuing Story of Chatham's North Beach
a news site based on the Breakthrough on North Beach (the southern end of Nauset Beach) in Chatham... (it is an old Chatham thing to call it North Beach, even tho it is on the south side of Nauset.... kind of like the fact you have to take 28 North in Orleans to go to Chatham, even though you head due south the whole ride...just another in the never ending list of CC WTF moments)
they have a forum board..no threads, just a non stop juggling of convrsation comments and a barage of erosion reports....
how bad...well in one word... Very...
It is not unexpected....we are alwasy told this is what is going to happen..
but now that so much has peeled back.. it does hit home hard..
there was salt water in places this time, that several natives and long time locals, had never seen it before... even the low lying buildings that ...count clapboards, or shingle courses to see if the water ran higher, are now much higher up the wall..
the shots near the end.. some of those homes up there in Wellfleet, are now right on the edge... I am in my mid fifties...washed ashore at age 11... I can remember when I was much younger, there being several footbal fields of acrerage between those houses shown, uphill in some places, to the dune edge... one in particular, if you step off the sundeck...your going straight downhill now...