Now. All we can tell you is: Watch. This. Video. Peter Wells, co-owner of the ferry, shot it from the cab of his truck at 4:10 a.m., during the peak of the blizzard overnight. Hes shooting the Chappaquiddick ferry slip. The ferry shack is on the right, the ON TIME II in the spare slip on the left (not really visible), the town out there somewhere in the darkness. The wind is steady above forty miles an hour, with guests touching sixty. Classical music plays while he films. The harbor is simply ignoring the fact that there is a slip, a ferry house -- indeed, anything that faintly resembles a point of land sticking out into the entrance. The storm surge -- for that is what this is, coming atop a rising tide anyway -- crashes into the ferry shack (right), and bullies its way past the gate before the ramp. Given that the gate lies about three or three and a half feet above the road, you can see that the surge here is about two and a half feet high. But remember that Chappaquiddick Point normally lies about eight feet or so above the harbor. That, plus the searing pace at which the spray goes by, will show you something about what the storm was like while the rest of us were sleeping through the banging and creaking of our houses. #newengland #massachusetts #marthasvineyard #edgartown #edgartownharbor #chappaquiddick #ferry #chappyferry #chappaquiddickferry #resort #island #snow #flood #blizzardof2015
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:15:55 +0000
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