Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:24:21 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Re: North Beach In-Reply-To: <00F22B8D.5400A2F3.0018288F@aol.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 9/25/03 10:06 AM, Jim Stasz at Jlstasz@AOL.COM wrote: > North Beach was hit pretty hard, but my place was spared. Although > the storm surge was about 6 feet, the first floor is at 6 feet & 2 > inches .... just enough that no water got inside. My deck is > essentially intact and is the only deck that was neither severely > damaged or totally destroyed. About 10 years ago my brother-in-law > was visiting and decided that I needed a hurricane-proof deck [he is a > contractor from California]. We took a week and built something that > we hoped would suffice. Without the deck it is quite likely that the > house would have been severely damaged or destroyed. That was very fortuitous foresight. I am happy for your good fortune. I crossed over the Key Bridge the day after the storm and things look really bad for people with houses along the waterfront there. Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================