Pictures of the Southport Marina, NC that were forwarded from Hurricane Isaias. No reported injuries but a lot of damage. The before and after.
What a shame.... sure looks like the docks and pilings didn't hold well.
High tide, full moon, NE quadrant of storm - recipe for a surge disaster. Doesn't look all wind-swept and bashed up. Surge may have just lifted everything up together over the top of the pilings.
Surge may have just lifted everything up together over the top of the pilings.
Greetings,
I've read on another site it may have been a tornado spawned by the 'caine. Rumor???
Looking at the charts around the Cape Fear area in regard to hurricane holes, there are few reasonable options close to the marinas there. Maybe a few boats could hide in the smallish area of Dutchman Creek, but even that looks iffy. If I was there, I'd have been traveling up the Cape Fear River about 25 or 30 miles.
The third picture posted by the OP is actually from South Harbor Village marina about a mile west of Southport Marina. South Harbor is my home marina and our boat is part of this mess. Transient dock pilings snapped off at the height of the surge & winds.Then that dock took out part of C dock and destroyed B dock (ours). I suspect the same happened at Southport Marina but don't know for sure. There were tornados that evening but that was several hours before the surge and high winds. Here is a couple more from South Harbor and one more "after" picture from Southport Marina.
Woodstock: I'm hoping for the best for your and your marina mates. I also hope you are able to get there soon to at least see what's up.
I have a question: Your second photo looks like a "before" in that it seems to match the first photo. But how do people get in and out of those slips on the "curve" even in normal times?
We had similar wind effects on the Chesapeake. As a result of the unusual wind direction, the surrounding area lost a lot more trees than expected. Trees grow in part to protect themselves from predominant winds.I rode the thing out at my place about 20nm N of Southport. The wind was way worse than expected. Way worse than any of the other storms that I have ridden out in the 27yrs I have owned the place. I think part of it was that the wind direction was unusual. The eye being just slightly west of us put the max wind out of the south, which for me has the most fetch. Usually the eyes go right over us (!!) and we get max wind out of the E then W. But not much out of S. I can handle E and W wind. S gave me trouble with the boat and docks, but all came out OK.
Sorry to hear about South Harbor Village, too. Looks like a lot of mud shoaling, too? We stayed there on our last southbound trip and on our northbound return... nice place, the dockmaster folks treated us very well...
Best wishes...
-Chris
Sadly, most times, we get what we pay for.That's my thought as well. I'd expect the docks and pilings to be a lot more sturdy in an area that gets hurricanes. From what I can see in the pictures, it looks like a lot of pilings were bent over or broke, allowing the docks to move around until they broke free from the rest and/or broke apart. There are some sections of still intact dock in that pile of boats that just didn't stay where they were supposed to.