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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:16 PM Oct 2012

Bad news-Sand dunes of Long Beach LI have been breached. The city is flooding.

People were around when it happened, and the police had to get people off of the beach. High tide is expected in two hours. The most of city of Long Beach is expected to food.

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Bad news-Sand dunes of Long Beach LI have been breached. The city is flooding. (Original Post) hrmjustin Oct 2012 OP

FEED IT! Lochloosa Oct 2012 #1

Don't be picky dipsydoodle Oct 2012 #4

That wasn't an actual dune. annabanana Oct 2012 #2

This is awful news, I have a friend who would not evacuate, he felt protected from by the dunes... NotThisTime Oct 2012 #3

A bulldozed sand berm doesn't stop waves for long HooptieWagon Oct 2012 #5

Damn...I've been there. My grandparents lived there way back in the late 60s-early 70s bullwinkle428 Oct 2012 #6

Lochloosa

(16,065 posts)

1. FEED IT!

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:25 PM

Oct 2012

"expected to food"

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

4. Don't be picky

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:30 PM

Oct 2012

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

2. That wasn't an actual dune.

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:27 PM

Oct 2012

It was just shoveled up in advance of the storm to try and keep water from coming under the boardwalk. There will be flooding. I hoping it's not the whole town.

NotThisTime

(3,657 posts)

3. This is awful news, I have a friend who would not evacuate, he felt protected from by the dunes...

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:29 PM

Oct 2012

or what's left of the dunes, I nearly begged him to leave. He's already lost power.

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)

5. A bulldozed sand berm doesn't stop waves for long

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:33 PM

Oct 2012

Really serves no purpose other than giving people something to do. Its like taping up windows.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)

6. Damn...I've been there. My grandparents lived there way back in the late 60s-early 70s

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:39 PM

Oct 2012

before they moved to Florida. They've long since passed, but I can recall visits to see them at their place when I was around 6 y.o.

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