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The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch
August 16, 2013
In Loving Memory Of
. . Storm A Turning Point For OC
FROM PAGE 67 17, 1933, with sustained winds of 50 mph. By the evening hours of Aug. 18, the storm had achieved hurricane status and began to attract the attention of denizens of the coastal regions along the eastern seaboard. Without today’s sophisticated storm tracking technology including computer-generated models and up-to-the-minute changes in direction and wind speeds, residents of the coastal areas knew little of the magnitude of the storm that would change their lives forever. They only knew a storm was brewing and began to take precautions for its eventual landfall. The fringes of the epic storm of 1933 had reached the resort area as early as Aug. 18 when the clouds rolled in, the gentle ocean breezes began to pick up and the rain began to fall. It continued to rain almost nonstop for the next four days at a rate of around 10 inches per day, filling the back bays and their tributaries to the point of overflowing and setting the stage for the disaster that would strike on Aug. 23. The storm of 1933 as it is simply called – hurricanes weren’t assigned names until decades later – wasn’t the largest or strongest to hit the mid-Atlantic region in recorded history, but it is memorable because of the massive amount of damage it caused along the eastern seaboard and inland. After barreling across
the Atlantic for several days, the storm finally made landfall at Norfolk on Aug. 23. The storm tracked from Norfolk roughly up the center of the Chesapeake Bay and it pummeled major population centers in its path with high winds and torrential rains. While Ocean City was spared the direct brunt of the storm, the surging tides and four straight days of pouring rain filled the back bays and caused the cutting of the Inlet, which was the most dramatic result anywhere along the storm’s path. In the days after the storm, Ocean City Mayor William W. McCabe estimated the damage in the resort to be around $500,000, which was a huge sum in 1933 dollars, but the major immediate concern was how to stabilize the newly cut Inlet in an effort to make it permanent. The federal government and the state of Maryland partnered on a project to stabilize the Inlet by building two stone jetties, one on either side of the cut, which had the immediate effect of securing its future and creating the long-awaited ocean access to the coastal bays. The commercial harbor in West Ocean City began to spring to life as Maryland’s only commercial port on the Atlantic and the countless marinas, docks and sheltered harbors that exist today began sprouting up to accommodate the ever-expanding sportfishing industry created in SEE PAGE 71
Angelo Russo
January 22, 1975 To August 20, 2003
The Day You Went Away
They say that time’s a healer, but as the time goes on, I seem to find it just as hard to face the fact you’re gone. And today it’s the 10-year anniversary of the day that you went away, and believe me when I say, you’ll never be forgotten and every year I’ll shed a tear. But it’s only because I love you and wish you were still here.
Your memory is our keepsake with which we’ll never part. God has you in his keeping and we have you in our hearts.
We love and miss you, Angelo. Mom, Dad, Lisa, Tony, Tina, Chelsea And Jeffrey
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