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Lewes flooding ahead of storm's landfall
The area around The Wharf Restaurant along the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal is inundated with water. BY RON MACARTHUR
October 29, 2012
Looking more like an ocean, waves from Delaware Bay pound Lewes Beach early Monday morning. BY RON MACARTHUR
The banks of the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal overflow along Pilottown Road in Lewes during Monday morning's high tide. BY RON MACARTHUR
New Road in Lewes is closed as Canary Creek floods. BY RON MACARTHUR
Marina and docking areas along the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal will be impacted by rising waters over the next two days. BY RON MACARTHUR
Water flows into Canalfront Park in Lewes Monday morning. BY RON MACARTHUR
Flooding causes the closing of Savannah Road in Lewes. BY RON MACARTHUR
Flooding is starting to reach businesses and homes along Lewes Beach, even with the brunt of the storm hours away. BY RON MACARTHUR
The winds shifted around to the north northwest at the time of high tide Monday morning helping to hold down the first high tide, bad enough as it is anyway. The winds blew lots of debris up on the public beach at Lewes including a set of dune stairs and a wayward Sunfish sailboat. BY DENNIS FORNEY
The storm gauge along Savannah Road on Lewes Beach shows Sandy making its way at this first high toward levels set by the 1998 northeaster but a long way from the Storm of 1962 flood mark. BY DENNIS FORNEY
Looking southward from Herring Point in Cape Henlopen State Park toward the Gordons Pond towers and Rehoboth Beach. BY DENNIS FORNEY
All low-lying areas around Lewes Beach were flooded at high tide Monday morning. Officials are predicting much more serious flooding over the next 24 to 36 hours.
