Here's a rather sad tale. The Vintage Automobile Club of N.J. was looking for a spot for a museum for over 10 years. Had a sign on Rt.70 in Whiting for many years announcing the coming of a building. I guess that fell through and just 2 months ago set up and opened a nice building just off the docks at Johnson Brothers Boat Works in Point Plesant. I visited when it opened. At least 8 cars were wrecked/partially submerged and the library is gone. They were jacked up and put on blocks to the height of the '62 storm. Not enough. The place flooded with over 50 inches of water. Some were moved prior to the storm other owners felt they couldn't secure their cars any better than where they were. As part of a rotating display which unfortunately started with Model T's anything left there is in for major repairs. Just spotted the story. Didn't get a chance to look at Sunday's paper till today. Sorry about the quality of the pic.
I don't expect to move again, but if I did I'd make sure it was to a place where flooding is impossible, not just unlikely.
My dad always said "When I buy another house, I will be able to walk out the back door and take a piss and it will run to the bottom before it soaks in".
There are two problems with this museum: first, an automobile museum has no business being near the ocean. Second, I understand why they put it there: because it's a heavily trafficked area. Unless you've ever been to Whiting, NJ an out of town tourist would have never found that place, because as I understand it, it wasn't going to be on Route 70, but somewhere in the environs of Whiting itself.
Not that the museum wasn't a good idea, because it was. Just not a lot of foresight....
Yes, that's a sorry sight.
The flood of June 2008 came within a foot of flooding the main floor of the Antique Car Museum of Iowa in Iowa City. There was devastation all around, and it was surrounded by water.
If this keeps up, any land within 50 miles of the Atlantic or Gulf will be good only for RV parks.
Most places along coastlines will eventually experience major flooding especially when the mean elevation is less than twenty feet above sea level. Same way it's behaved for millenia.
Hope we don't suffer a "hypercane" like the one that struck the Gulf states ABOUT 2,000 YEARS AGO. Reportedly washed gulf sediment 400 miles inland.
Flooding can happen any place, any where, any time. But sometimes, placing something in a "flood prone" area is just asking for it.
Will:
Even though the Ocean County Vintage Car club had the property on Rt. 539 in Whiting, they considered building the new museum at the northern end of the Seaside Heights boardwalk in Ortley Beach....... an area on the barrier island that was more devastated by the hurricane than the Point Pleasant site.
Go figure ???
Like I said, not a lot of foresight....
Where does a person go to escape disaster? Here we have lots of tornadoes, blizzards and cold down to -40 degrees fahrenheit and sometimes colder. The middle of this country is not quite as cold but often states around us have horrible blizzards because of the Lake Effect snow. And the East Coast and Gulf area is ridiculous for their hurricanes. The West Coast has earthquakes and rain and mudslides and fires and Oregon and Washington in the spring isn't fit for a duck. Arizona is 40 degrees hotter than hell. And Texas, well... So where does a person go. And then to top it off, Yellowstone is nothing but a huge volcano that's going to blow some day and we're all going to have to deal with that mess. And you know what? I think the television shows about the "preppers" is about as ignorant and those people are as ignorant as you can get but who know's. Yep ain't none of us gonna get out of this life alive. And then to really get ya the sun flares covering the earth and the increase it's going to cause in gravity is going to cook us and suck right off the earth and the oceans tides are going to rise and flood for 400 miles inland and the Earthquakes that are going to hit the center of the country and... I think I need a beer.
I live on the side of a hill in Denver Colorado. If it floods here I will trade the t's for an ark. I think I will have a beer as well.
I am from Pa and recently I checked a salvage auction that has a lot of cars from NY & NJ and I almost cried. There were a lot of antique cars that were totaled by the storm. Some were flooded and some were damaged by debris and some by structures that were damaged by the storm. I wouldnt wish this on anyone in the hobby.
Feed me and house me supply me with tools and parts i will work on them for free. Like some kind of volunteer i guess.
Geez Mike, your post is so uplifting--oh wait, that's a bad pun on the plate shifting. . .
Sun Flares causing an increase in Gravity? I'm gonna have to Google that.
The only thing I know you missed is the loss of the Earth's magnetic field (or is it getting ready to reverse? No one seems to know.
T related content: if the magnetic field reverses, how will it effect our magnetos?
T'
David D.
Dave: you'd swap the oil drain plug with the mag post.
Mike forgot Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, in the Canaries, which (some say)threatens a 200ft high tsunami sweeping the Eastern seaboard.
If you had an RV instead of a house within 50 miles of the Atlantic, you could escape unharmed.
I am far more concerned about the devastation caused, and likely to be caused, by human stupidity than I am any of the aforementioned natural disasters.
I enjoyed Mike Gs posting.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2