Pics from a small bit of Heaven!

[Timothy]

These were taken this morning from the deck of my brothers house...a bit of heaven!

An $800,000.00 view!  About a mile from Long Island Sound on the head of the Niantic River, Waterford, CT...





No fish to report...good fun, a few beers, good company and some laughs..

[MikeBjerum]

Enjoy the time and the company!

[alfsauve]

Very nice. But where's the range? For 800K I want a range.

[jnevis]

My wife's friend lives in Niantic just down the river from there.  We visit periodically.


 I'd go less often if given the chance....

[tombogan03884]

The hurricane of 1938 sent a 50 ft storm surge through there at high tide pushed by a 150 MPH wind.
The storm surge changed the coastlines of Long Island, Rhode Island and Conn.
The storm surge hit with such force that it registered on seismographs in Alaska.
Weather report was "scattered showers, possibly heavy at times"

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[Pathfinder]

The hurricane of 1938 sent a 50 ft storm surge through there at high tide pushed by a 150 MPH wind.

Damn, you are just one giant ray of sunshine there, Tom!!!! 

[Timothy]

Very nice. But where's the range? For 800K I want a range.

There are several ranges near the house but Pat doesn't shoot or hunt much anymore.  Believe it or not, he paid about 150K for the property and house (circa 1930).  He dropped another 300K rebuilding the house because it was a real shithole.  He doubled the size, put in a third bedroom, two more baths and a pool room!  Today, after 15 years of hard work it's value is 800K +, but with that comes 10K or more in taxes just on the property.  He works his butt off designing advanced delivery systems for submarines at General Dynamics!  He spent Friday in San Diego in day long meetings with the Navy Seals...

I'll say no more....

[Timothy]

The hurricane of 1938 sent a 50 ft storm surge through there at high tide pushed by a 150 MPH wind.
The storm surge changed the coastlines of Long Island, Rhode Island and Conn.
The storm surge hit with such force that it registered on seismographs in Alaska.
Weather report was "scattered showers, possibly heavy at times"

My father was in boot camp in Newport in 1938.  He spent his liberty digging bodies out of parked cars down on the beach!  People drove down there to watch the storm...

[Timothy]

My wife's friend lives in Niantic just down the river from there.  We visit periodically.


 I'd go less often if given the chance....

In spite of the politics, Niantic is a great little town!  The problem is the population triples in the summer!

In those pictures I posted, you're looking at the Niantic side of the river looking due west...

[tombogan03884]

Damn, you are just one giant ray of sunshine there, Tom!!!!  

I just finished a book about the storm I had heard vague mention of from older relatives over the years.
Stuff like "Oh yes, that was the year of the big hurricane".
The day Hitler moved into Czechoslovakia a category 5 hurricane hit the area with no warning at all .
Some stats on the result
The center of Providence RI had 12 of water,
Over 700 dead, 63,000 homeless
9,000 buildings gone another 15,000 damaged.
6,000 fishing boats destroyed or damaged .
It took 2 weeks for rail service to be restored  10,000 men had to fill 1,000 wash outs repair 100 bridges and remove debris including houses and 30 boats from the tracks.
275,000,000, two hundred seventy five MILLION trees knocked down, 6 BILLION board feet of lumber
There was one lumbering family that used the last bundle of fire wood from the clean up in 1980