John, We left our house off Limewood Ave around 5:30pm when low tide timing turned into high tide height (plus some), and the wind really started building and veering to turn onshore. The windows at the front of the house were creaking loudly in their frames and visibly bulging. We were convinced there would be wreckage when we returned, but the house is structurally fine. The high tide line is at the bottom of our patio, a good 9' above the normal high tide line, but a lot of that will have been waves breaking on the lawn. Apparently the forecast turn to Southeast / South didn't happen until later. The waves at midday today were sizable too.
Mojito survived at Dutch Wharf (up the Branford River). I went up at noon on Monday (high tide) and the water level was about a foot up her keel. Another 5-6' and she'd have floated off the stands, but it would probably have only taken 2' to float some of the power boats and start them bashing into other stands. Good luck with power - and I hope your winter goes well. Tim Mojito C&C 35-3 Branford, CT On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Maturo, John <[email protected]> wrote: > We were lucky. The storm surge hit at low rather than high tide sparing > homes and boats. We came out Friday at our club. The water was high enough > that it started to float some power boats off of their stands and blocking > but stopped a few inches from catastrophe. Short beach homes had spray from > waves over the roofs at noon today. All up river marinas on the Branford > look to be unharmed. A surge at high tide as originally predicted would > have certainly sent hundreds of boats and docks floating down the river. > > John Maturo > 203-494-6782 > Ashe Baltic 39 > On Oct 30, 2012, at 12:00, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> wrote: > >
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