New FEMA ABFE maps

Boyd

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The zone on that map ends about 2 miles down the road from my home. About what I would expect since the elevation drops from about 60 feet to 15 feet.
 

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We are about 500' from the line that follows a creek up from the Toms River. I still can't believe we didn't get any water in the basement with the storm. I haven't been able to find what storm conditions these estimates are for, other than they are post sandy. If sandy were anything over a cat 1, things would have been a lot worse around this house.

That creek got pretty high, going by the debris line. This is from the day after on the main road. I wonder how long this guy will have to wait to find out how much damage the salt water did to his truck :rolleyes:

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Since you have lived in upstate NY, you should be familiar with the kind of damage that salt does to a vehicle. :)

Actually our town used sand. The Greenies would not allow salt :eek: but once on state roads we became corroded again :D Our Explorer held up pretty well, considering the beach driving and chloride baths it had. It eventually died with 243K miles on the clock. That was a sad day.
 

Boyd

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In the Central NY area (Syracuse, Rochester, etc) they used rock salt - and LOTS of it - on the roads in the winters. This was back in the late 70's through the early 90's, don't know if it has changed now. I just couldn't believe how bad it was when I moved there, a 5 year old car could have holes in it. Will never forget driving down the snowy highway and watching a lump in the carpet under my feet that kept getting larger. Peeled it back and found the floor had completely rusted through. And this was maybe a 7 year old car.
 
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