Sunday, January 24, 2010

January 2010 Week of Rain

Rains beginning the week of January 18, 2010 pretty much eroded
some 20 to 40 feet of the beach at 18th Street. The first picture
shows the amount of run-off from the streets and storm drain
at the end of 19th Street (double click to enlarge pictures):



The small telephone pole sticking up just short of the water
line is where the lifeguard tower usually sits in the summer
before being hauled back some 50 feet during the winter:


There was rain run-off even from the bike path:





















During the summer months, the sand should return towards
the ocean. If it does not, the 18th Street ocean swimmers
will have to swim some 40 or 50 feet more as a practice
ocean swim:













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