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The Herald and The Lantern

Wednesday, November 5,1980

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One thing that cornea through loud and clear since the Oct. 25 storm is the fact that In Cape May County we have lost our defenses against the sea Surveying the widespread damage from Cape May to Strathmere, it is vividly evident that with the combination of dune destruction over the years, and entrapment of beach sand by the groins of Cold Spring jetty — most of our resort cities will be completely inundated if a hurricane ever hits dead center. THE STREETS OF Wildwood, Cape May, Stone Harbor, and Avalon, were flooded badly with this 24-hour blow. Imagine • what would have happened if it had lasted two days! Luckily the wind changed direction on the second day, and we were spared a major disaster. Higher-than-average perigee tides and high winds caused enough trouble as it was. On Ocean Drive in Avalon the sea literally picked up 2 and 3-ton stones from the groins, and deposited them on the highway. On the other side of the inlet, Sea Isle's massive man-made dune was leveled, while dunes in the Stratmere area were moved about 15 feet on top of the highway. WHERE DO WE GO from here? It's very nice for some of our legislators to try to impose a penalty on our citizens for building at the shore (especially when they are politicians who live far inland, and have no idea of our problems; but still expect tax revenues from us). What can we now expect from these critics in the way of help out of this mess?

I belive that we need a strong bulkhead protecting us from our ocean. The natural dunes used to be our protection and our security, but they’re gone (and we’ve proven that you just can't pump sand into a big pile and call it a dune). Now, we’re faced with either erecting a protecting wall or being flooded out. THE SEA HAS a way of reclaiming things,,and we must somehow devise a safeguard against this encroachment on our homes. Let’s hope that help will come, but in the meantime, I think we’d better try to help ourselves. • • • I will soon be leaving^ with a group of the Cape^ Skinner, Bakely Standouts In Field Hockey After dropping a close ! contest to the Hammonton Blue Devils 2-1 last Wednesday, the Lower Cape May Regional Field Hockey team closed their season in winning fashion with a 2-0 victory over the Crusaders of Wildwood Catholic the following day. Goalie Diane Skinner turned in an outstanding performance for the 3-8-2 Capers in recording her third shutout of the season Barbara Bakely provided all the scoring for I the Tigers as she fired home both goals on solo I breakaways.

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ly Boyd Tyler

May County-Hatteras Anglers for a trip to the graveyard of the Atlantic in search of channel bass or red drum, and I know that in that far-off barrier island in North Carolina they are having another type of problem with the ocean. They have the Corps of Engineers down there talking of stabilizing Oregon Inlet, and here we go again on what happened to Cape May County. The age-old suggestion of groins is being presented in spite of evidence of what happened to Cape May: and the political powers seems to be buying it because of the need for a good inlet. I hope they look here in Cape May County before they leap. • • • I RECEIVED A letter from “Dutch” Cornish, that’s George Cornish’s wife, of Summerland Keys, Fla., and she was telling me of George’s activities in the field of angling. Besides appearing in the Gudebrod fishing line, ads he’s been flyfishing down in Costa Rica twice a year, and the rest of the time keeps busy with fish mounts; and does some guiding for bonefish and tarpon in the Keys. It took me back to 1960

when George, Harry Connors, and I stayed with Edgar Hooper in Buxton and fished Cape Point on the outer hanks at the same time Vlad Evanoff was there doing an article on red drum for Life magazine. We took four red drum out of the surf that night when a school of herring sprayed out of the water at our feet, and I almost went to sea gaffing one of George's drum. He gaffed my drum later in return. WHILE WE WERE landing the four that night Vlad Evanoff was sleeping, because he had gotten two in the afternoon; and before we got up he was on his way flying back home. We had a lot of good times in those days, and we had the beach all to ourselves. As I travel down there again in November, I'll be thinking of George and the fishing trips we had together. • • • One last item — Charles Cantz, of Green Creek and Gil Sinkway of Court House just returned from a trip to Florida. Charley got a big bonito down there, and Gil captured a big barracuda, which he is having mounted.

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