While Jed, Kate and Green Hornet were here visiting, they brought with them part of the hurricane from the east coast! It rained and blew ferociously!!! During the last 24 hour period it rained 7.3 inches here in Gold Beach, OR!! The wind blew in gusts up to 90 miles per hour! No little leisurely beach strolls on this visit!! This morning when we got up, we looked out our trailer window, where we are parked one trailer space (about 20 yards from mild, little, lazy Hunter Creek. We were greeted with a raging river, carrying trees and plastic culverts down to the ocean.
Little did we know, at the time, the culverts we saw floating out to the ocean were the culverts across the only road out of the park!!
What looks like mountains or clouds off in the distance??? That's the ocean and the powerful wave action our little beach was receiving.
The creek was surrounding Turtle Rock and eroding away the beach.
We went for a walk in the park and found that we were one of the few RV's that was not surrounded by water. We later learned that while we slept, Hunter creek had created a new route and was flowing 2 1/2 feet deep through the park. The brown thing? That's a hot tub washed away from one of the cabins on the other side of the park!
This is where, an hour or two before it had all been under water and was a wide raging creek!
It washed over the road leading out of the park and in several places removed or added gravel and soil.
This is where the culverts had been. The water had been flowing2 1/2 feet over this road before it just all washed away along with the 4 culverts. It took out our water line, sewer, cable TV, electricity and so forth.
From one bank to the other, all where road had been! We realized, we were trapped in the park and no way out! But amazingly, our trailer was not touched, even thought the 7+" of rain and 90 mile per hour winds buffeted us all night long!
Later in the day, we went back to find them beginning reconstruction and we now had a little foot bridge to get foot traffic out and in.
Cones were placed for safety.
Jed came by to check on us and survey the damage. He had to check on his Mom!
We found that our sewer lines had partially blown or washed away.
Later in the day, some of the park crew and a few of us residents found a couple of the culverts stranded on the beach. We tied on to them and floated them up stream to where we could latch on to the truck.
We had pulled them this far and then set up some logs as rollers and then pulled them up the embankment with the truck.
That's Wayne in the purple sweat shirt.
Great projects, great fun, great rain!!
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