The two lanes were narrower than current standards, the bridge required expensive painting, and clearance was too low for some tall trucks. The old bridge was elegant in a mid-20th century industrial style, but no longer suited contemporary transportation needs. Unfortunately, I do not have a photograph of the old bridge when intact. The filename includes a 4-digit number, which was written in pencil on the back of each frame.įor more information on historical hurricanes and construction of storm surge barriers in New England and New Jersey, see:įor decades, drivers on Highway 61 (the Blues Highway) had to cross the Yazoo River at Redwood, Mississippi, on a handsome 1950-vintage steel cantilever bridge. The frames were not taken on a 9x9-inch aerial camera but on some other camera with a frame size approx. The photographic platform is unknown, but possibly a blimp. The printing date is unknown but believed to be 1944. Original image condition: excellent, with full tonal range, printed on single-weight glossy paper. The source of original paper prints is the archive of the Beach Erosion Board (predecessor of the former Coastal Engineering Research Center), presently stored at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. Do you think it is vulnerable to storms? Should we as a society collectively be responsible for their rebuilding costs? Do tax receipts and tourist revenues repay the cost of rebuilding after storms? Should we socialize the risk (which we have, of course) while developers and speculators reap the initial benefits? These are serious questions to ponder, and we failed miserably and cowardly to address these issues after the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 on the Gulf Coast. Normalized hurricane damages in the United States: 1925-95. (See: Pielke, R.A., Jr., and Landsea, C.W. Pielke and Landsea (1998) calculated the total damage in 1995 Dollars to be $6.5 billion. However, thousands of houses and businesses were destroyed and damaged along the Jersey shore. The low death toll on land was due to well-executed warnings and evacuations, a result of the bitter lessons of the great New England Hurricane of 1938. Dawes (Jr.), Naval Institute Press, 222 pages). The storm was so powerful, it sank the US Navy destroyer USS Warrington (DD-383) about 700 km east of Vero Beach, FL, with a loss of 248 sailors (see The Dragon's Breath: Hurricane at Sea by Robert A. Of the 390 people who perished, 340 were lost on ships at sea (some of them servicemen on convoys). It moved out to sea again and made a second landfall on eastern Long Island on September 14, after causing significant damage along the New Jersey shore. The storm first made landfall as a Category 3 near Cape Hatteras. They show damage to the boardwalk and to structures caused by the "Great Atlantic Hurricane" of 13-14 September, 1944. These black and white aerial photographs of Ventnor-Atlantic City, Brigantine, and Barnegat Lighthouse areas were taken on 15 September 1944, and 24 October 1944. New Jersey has been struck with damaging hurricanes and northeasters many times. This was not the first major storm to destroy property and beaches along the Jersey shore. The storm, which killed 230 people, cause up to $75 billion in losses, according to the National Hurricane Center (2012 estimate). Hurricane (super storm) Sandy caused immense damage to New York, New Jersey, and surrounding areas on October 29, 2012.
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