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August 16, 2013
The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch
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. . ‘An Absolutely Horrible Storm’
FROM PAGE 6 Inlet at the south end of town. The huge waves that pounded the east side of the resort combined with the massive amount of water that built up in the back bays conspired to cut the Inlet and separate the southern end of the town from what is now Assateague Island. A common misconception is that the surging ocean tides driven by the storm breached the dunes and cut the Inlet, but the Inlet was actually cut by the massive wall of water built up in the back bays that had steadily risen after four straight days of torrential rains. The steady downpours flooded the bays and their tributaries to the point of overflowing and the rising water had to go somewhere. The surging water that built up in the bays finally breached the sandy barrier island at the south end of Ocean City at its lowest point. Three entire streets at the south end of town were washed away by the tide that flowed from the back bays toward the ocean. By the time the storm subsided, the streets washed away by the surging tide were completely underwater and remain under the Inlet to this day. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the storm 10 years ago, West Ocean City resident Evelyn Bunting, who was just 13 years old in August 1933 when the storm unleashed its fury on the coastal area, recalled the ferocity of the storm.
“I was just a kid but remember it being an absolutely horrible storm,” Bunting told The Dispatch in 2003. “The railroad trestle into town was washed away and we were just astonished that the Inlet had been cut through by that storm.” Former Ocean City Mayor Roland “Fish” Powell was just a 5-yearold boy growing up in downtown Ocean City in August 1933, but he also had vivid memories of the storm when interviewed on its 70th anniversary 10 years ago including the cutting of the Inlet. “I was pretty young at the time, but I remember that storm and the Inlet being cut,” he said 10 years ago. “We lived on Dorchester Street and Tom Cropper took his grandson and me and another boy and told us he was going to show us something we would probably never see again in our lives. Well, we went down there and saw water pouring across from the bay to the ocean.” Powell said the amazing spectacle drew crowds of curious onlookers when the storm had finally subsided. “People were lined up just staring at it and it kept getting wider and wider,” he said. “Seeing that tide roll through there and carrying the battered old railroad bridge and all of those buildings with it was really an amazing thing.” West Ocean City resident Charles Elliott was also a young child livSEE PAGE 66
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