BLIZZARD OF '93
MARCH 14 1993
Molly Murray, a reporter
of the Sussex Bureau Sunday News Journal reported
the northeaster which bore
down southern Delaware caused nowhere near the damage
predicted and a chance
for another blast was fast fading. Still many beach towns on the
long battered coast were
emptied by evacuation early Saturday morning or closed off by
snow drifts and flooding
at 3 am Officials early reports indicate beaches had little
serious erosion.
Another reason for the
light erosion was the uneasy, quiet, pocket of calm air within
the storm that came along
the coast during the midday high tide. Northeast wind shifter to
the east, gusty and
confused in their direction. John Hughes, a state director, on
duty, said the
'calm' came just in time.
He was on Haven Road, Indian River, when the ocean was just
about to break through
the dunes when the winds started to lay, and the worst of the storm
moved to the north and
was over for southern Delaware. When the storm came in on Friday
officials agreed we were
in for real trouble and it could devastate the Delaware Coast.
Now the west winds
continued to blow shingles off roofs and do property damage but it
pushed the waves away
fro the coast. Damaging winds hit a peak at 60 mph and roads were
littered.
The storm of the
century , but, wasn’t .
Abstract: Sunday News
Journal , 14 March 1993 by Molly Murray.
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