Page 66 The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch August 16, 2013 . . IslandForever Changed By Storm An aerial look at the new Inlet is pictured back in 1933. Photos from Bunk Mann Collection FROM PAGE 7 ing in the fledgling resort town when the 1933 storm hit. Elliott’s father owned a fish pound business at the south end of town in virtually the same spot where the Inlet was cut and the fishing camps were literally erased from the landscape by the storm. Elliott said in an interview at the 70th anniversary 10 years ago the storm ravaged the tiny town that only went to 15th Street at the time and caused the evacuation of residents and visitors. “The tide was so high in the bays that it went all the way up to what is now Golf Course Road,” he said. “We had to move out of town and we stayed with family and friends inland.” Elliott related the story of an Ocean City preacher, remembered only as Preacher Poole, who was briefly separated from his family by the rising tide that flowed from the bays to the ocean and cut the Inlet. “Preacher Poole was trying to get his family out of there by automobile, but he wanted to go to his house first to gather some clothes and emergency supplies,” he said. “Well, when he got to the spot where the water was starting to breach the town, he got out and could just step over it. A short time later, when he returned from his house, the gap had widened to the point where he couldn’t get back across. It had gotten so wide so fast that he couldn’t even think of jumping across.” The concept of an Inlet providing access from the sheltering bays to the fertile Atlantic Ocean fishing SEE NEXT PAGE