This has to be the worst storm I have seen flooding wise, since I moved to Virginia Beach in the late 1970's. A strong Northeaster, remnants of TS Ida, pounded Virginia Beach from November 11th through November 13th, 2009. Massive tidal flooding occurred in the Lynnhaven River Basin along with endless heavy rain, winds up to 70 mph, and unprecedented Chesapeake Bay wave action. This combination led to the worst storm in years.
Bubba's Crab House was substantially flooded. Surf's up at Chick's Oyster Bar
The old Duck-In site on Friday Flooding on Shore Drive Thursday afternoon
My old Boston Whaler rides it out (in water right of center) This one wasn't as lucky!
Cape Story Beach access ramp at Sandalwood Road Part of same ramp a couple miles down beach
Boat ride down street My neighbor's boat unfortunately took a tree
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All photos courtesy of Mark A. Moore
Oh my -- those photos look grim -- all the best.
Hi Bob & Carolin, Thanks. It looks like we'll have at least one more big high tide tonight. -Mark
Mark, I know Shore Drive well. Hope the clean up goes well.
It is going to take sometime to cleanup after this one. Great pics. Just shows that we can only protect ourselves so much when mother nature comes calling.
The tides were the biggest part of the flooding in most places. There was a lot of rain but not the heaviest we had.
This was INSANE! I live in Chesapeake and we had some pretty bad flooding ourselves and couldn't leave the house for 3 days because of it.