Now this is a cut!

[cudamark]

We've had some erosion at certain beaches here in SoCal lately....mostly from a big storm way out west of us. The sand almost complete washed away at this place. The dry sand used to be over our heads where you can see my buddy detecting, and extended out to where the waters' edge is in the photo. Makes for some fun detecting although it's hard to recover stuff in those rocks and hard packed sand.

 

[surfnturf]

We've had some erosion at certain beaches here in SoCal lately....mostly from a big storm way out west of us. The sand almost complete washed away at this place. The dry sand used to be over our heads where you can see my buddy detecting, and extended out to where the waters' edge is in the photo. Makes for some fun detecting although it's hard to recover stuff in those rocks and hard packed sand.

Show me the money!!!!
That’s why I broke so many shovels and sand scoops🏴‍☠️

 

[OBN]

We've had some erosion at certain beaches here in SoCal lately....mostly from a big storm way out west of us. The sand almost complete washed away at this place. The dry sand used to be over our heads where you can see my buddy detecting, and extended out to where the waters' edge is in the photo. Makes for some fun detecting although it's hard to recover stuff in those rocks and hard packed sand.

Some how Im not seeing a picture.

 

[surfnturf]

Some how Im not seeing a picture.

 

[oldmxrat]

Pictures, or it didn't happen!

 

[Sand Swinger]

Our beaches in DE & OC have been getting hit with a pretty nasty nor’easter over the last couple of days. These 2 videos are from yesterday:

– (buoy washed up on the beach)

– (cut starting to form)

Just a few minutes ago, wife calls me and says she just heard that Bethany Beach is “gone”. Gone? So I jumped onto a Bethany Beach Cam and yeah, incoming water is covering the entire beach. Don’t know what it looked like yesterday, probably much worse but right now, beach is underwater.

https://48half.com/bethanybeachcams/bethany-beach-south-high.html

 

[Sand Swinger]

Whoa, I just came across a video I just had to share. Ever since I was a kid, I've loved storms & bad weather, the nastier the better. I posted awhile back about hunting a beach down in OC while a hurricane was passing by offshore. It was extremely difficult to hunt with gale force winds trying to blow me over, but the experience was incredibly surreal. I guess my love of nasty, bad weather is in my DNA, as my 14-year-old grandson is seriously into weather and wants to become a storm chaser.

But check out this video from last month. The guy is over at Cape May, NJ., and filmed this incredibly evil looking storm coming across the Delaware Bay into Cape May. Over the years, I've crossed that same Delaware Bay many time on the Ferry at Lewes, to spend the day at Cape May. This is one of the most beautifully nasty & evil looking storms I've ever seen.

 

[russau]

You can have it ! It's bad enough around here with the tornados !

 

[Sand Swinger]

Looks like our nor'easter isn’t planning to leave our coast anytime soon and is getting much worse today. Our beaches in DE & OC are totally flooded; some of the roads are underwater. And even though I’m about 135 miles from the coast, we’re feeling it here, raining all day, winds, the usual residual weather from coastal storms.

In fact, while I was watching the 2 videos I’m sharing below, my grandson yelled that our neighbor’s canopy he had on his deck, and tied down with rope, had blown off and was now on top of his neighbor’s deck. I went over to help, and it took 4 of us to get it untangled from his neighbor’s deck and back into his yard. It was totally destroyed.

Here’s the 2 videos from earlier today. The first is a beach down in OC I hunted earlier this year, and we stayed at the same hotel as the person shooting the video. The beach is totally covered by water, and you can see wood & trashcans floating by.




The second video is another beach I hunted earlier this year in Rehoboth. This video is shot at beach level, so you can see huge waves breaking high up on the beach, very close to the dunes. I’ve hunted this beach and where some of those huge waves are breaking are where the towel line on the dry would be, so the water is coming up high, right up against the dunes.

43K views · 1K reactions | Current update on the beach in Rehoboth! Incredible power out there today. Everyone be careful! 🌊☁️ #NorEaster #Delaware #RehobothBeach | Elliot MacGuire Photography

Current update on the beach in Rehoboth! Incredible power out there today. Everyone be careful! 🌊☁️ #NorEaster #Delaware #RehobothBeach

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[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

So then ... hydro-dynamically .... the gold rings should be relocated to the bluff base/water interface whilst the lighter sands move away? This interface moves landward leaving behind a concentrated layer of newly shallow gold? Or what actually happens?

 

[Paul Revere’s Ghost]

Looks like our nor'easter isn’t planning to leave our coast anytime soon and is getting much worse today. Our beaches in DE & OC are totally flooded; some of the roads are underwater. And even though I’m about 135 miles from the coast, we’re feeling it here, raining all day, winds, the usual residual weather from coastal storms.

In fact, while I was watching the 2 videos I’m sharing below, my grandson yelled that our neighbor’s canopy he had on his deck, and tied down with rope, had blown off and was now on top of his neighbor’s deck. I went over to help, and it took 4 of us to get it untangled from his neighbor’s deck and back into his yard. It was totally destroyed.

Here’s the 2 videos from earlier today. The first is a beach down in OC I hunted earlier this year, and we stayed at the same hotel as the person shooting the video. The beach is totally covered by water, and you can see wood & trashcans floating by.




The second video is another beach I hunted earlier this year in Rehoboth. This video is shot at beach level, so you can see huge waves breaking high up on the beach, very close to the dunes. I’ve hunted this beach and where some of those huge waves are breaking are where the towel line on the dry would be, so the water is coming up high, right up against the dunes.

43K views · 1K reactions | Current update on the beach in Rehoboth! Incredible power out there today. Everyone be careful! 🌊☁️ #NorEaster #Delaware #RehobothBeach | Elliot MacGuire Photography

Current update on the beach in Rehoboth! Incredible power out there today. Everyone be careful! 🌊☁️ #NorEaster #Delaware #RehobothBeach

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Going stir crazy here. Lit the wood stove. Storm seems to be sanding IN not out. 😡 pretty sure this photo is Marshfield right down the road. Darn tide and sunrise aren’t cooperating nor is the wind and rain. It’s brutal.

 

[OBN]

So then ... hydro-dynamically .... the gold rings should be relocated to the bluff base/water interface whilst the lighter sands move away? This interface moves landward leaving behind a concentrated layer of newly shallow gold? Or what actually happens?

From past experience of Oc Md after storm hunting.... right where the stronger waves are crashing (darker green) is where you will find gold and coins. The secondary, lighter green breaker could hold smaller gold but they down seem strong enough with this picture. Hunted just a few of these (Hurricanes/Storms) and that has been the pattern. These waves were not as strong as Hurricane waves so I would be hunting the darker green crash area first. Once the high water has receded this area will be fully exposed... My best hunt was 7 gold rings, Hurricane Bill, hunted the darker green area.. only got 2 gold Hurricane Sandy.. Gold was in the second lighter green area for waves were much stronger.

I experienced the same thing in Chicago several years ago, waves were 16 plus feet high and pushed all the targets right onto shore, wet sand area. Only found one nice chunk of gold that trip.. plus lots of junk rings and coins...

Found right where the big waves were crashing

 

[mjb Mike]

obn i remeber hurricane bill very well me and some of my riding buddies went out during that storm on stand up jet skies and road the waves some of the waves off oc at the shoal were 20 + feet

 

[pepperj]

Going stir crazy here. Lit the wood stove. Storm seems to be sanding IN not out. 😡 pretty sure this photo is Marshfield right down the road. Darn tide and sunrise aren’t cooperating nor is the wind and rain. It’s brutal.

These are termed sneaker waves?

 

[Paul Revere’s Ghost]

These are termed sneaker waves?

So sorry. The bride informed me that the town police there posted something about it being fake. Mods feel free to delete. So sorry.

 

[Paul Revere’s Ghost]

obn i remeber hurricane bill very well me and some of my riding buddies went out during that storm on stand up jet skies and road the waves some of the waves off oc at the shoal were 20 + feet

This is far from a hurricane. Around here they toss grapefruit size rocks over walls and onto streets. Here’s a photo I took myself (though it became a popular one in the news) during the blizzard of 78.

 

[Paul Revere’s Ghost]

From past experience of Oc Md after storm hunting.... right where the stronger waves are crashing (darker green) is where you will find gold and coins. The secondary, lighter green breaker could hold smaller gold but they down seem strong enough with this picture. Hunted just a few of these (Hurricanes/Storms) and that has been the pattern. These waves were not as strong as Hurricane waves so I would be hunting the darker green crash area first. Once the high water has receded this area will be fully exposed... My best hunt was 7 gold rings, Hurricane Bill, hunted the darker green area.. only got 2 gold Hurricane Sandy.. Gold was in the second lighter green area for waves were much stronger.

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I experienced the same thing in Chicago several years ago, waves were 16 plus feet high and pushed all the targets right onto shore, wet sand area. Only found one nice chunk of gold that trip.. plus lots of junk rings and coins...

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Found right where the big waves were crashing
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Physics dictate larger waves break in deeper water, typically further out. We had a wave tank in Jr high school oceanography class which was really cool. But hurricanes break a lot of rules. Waves get so big bottom slope doesn’t matter much. I remember as a kid when the lights went out we would all go up to the second floor and huddle around a table with a kerosene lamp. Wind gusts would make the nails break in the walls and every now and then a wave would crash over the wall and pelt the windows in the front of the house. Sounded like they would smash, but they never did. I’ve moved a lot of times, but never further away from the sea that I couldn’t smell or see it. But everything you outlined rings true. Thats why I LOVE minus tides.

 

[Paul Revere’s Ghost]

Creak. Not break 🙄. Ai always thinks it’s smarter than us.

 

[Sand Swinger]

From past experience of Oc Md after storm hunting.... right where the stronger waves are crashing (darker green) is where you will find gold and coins. The secondary, lighter green breaker could hold smaller gold but they down seem strong enough with this picture. Hunted just a few of these (Hurricanes/Storms) and that has been the pattern. These waves were not as strong as Hurricane waves so I would be hunting the darker green crash area first. Once the high water has receded this area will be fully exposed... My best hunt was 7 gold rings, Hurricane Bill, hunted the darker green area.. only got 2 gold Hurricane Sandy.. Gold was in the second lighter green area for waves were much stronger.

Joe, check out this video. It's videos like this that make me really regret selling our beach house.

Nice cut and look at all that solid black sand. That's definitely a situation for my PI. Single frequency detectors need not apply, and I think even SMF's might struggle a bit, but with all that black sand, that's exactly the situation where I'd definitely be swinging a PI.

For those that may not know, this is a historic beach. Several hundred feet out buried underwater is the wreck of the Faithful Steward. I heard about this beach when I started detecting as a kid and dreamed of going there to hunt. Over the last several decades, it's produced so many old coins (coppers) that everyone calls it "Coin Beach".

 

[Paul Revere’s Ghost]

So the sand did its job. Easier to replace sand than a bridge . Taking my headlight and hitting the beach in 8 hours. Hope I come across something like that. 👍