South Jersey Shore Spared Serious Damage From Nor'easter
By David Madden
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (CBS) -- Jersey shore residents, grateful to dodge the bullet that could have come with Hurricane Joaquin, are nonetheless coping with a Nor'easter that just won't quit.
There's moderate tidal flooding, particularly on the back bays and the beaches will need some repair work.
The Wawa on West Avenue overnight Friday as a precaution. Tom Dobson of Millville opened the place up in time for the morning breakfast rush.
"(The conditions are) a little breezier down here," he said. "Crossing the bridge, you really had to hang on to the steering wheel."
But locals were taking things in stride. Andrew Bech spent his morning getting a haircut. Of course, the barber shop was open.
"Nor'easters always hang around for a couple days," Bech told told KYW Newsradio. "They're worse than hurricanes to be honest."
Emergency management officials were breathing a sigh of relief, not just because Hurricane Joaquin was heading out to sea and was no longer a threat, but local predictions of a deluge of rain failed to materialize.
"The five or six inches of rain that they were saying we were going to get out of this Nor'easter has turned into maybe one inch," said Frank Donato, Ocean City's Emergency Management Director.
It may be a few days before officials can assess the true extend of beach erosion.
The fierce waves battering the beach were quite a sight to see, particularly for those who come here from out of town.
"Out in Tennessee," said Randall Brewer of Nashville. "You don't see nothing like this, you know. It's just amazing."
