From AccuWeather.com…
With each nor’easter Roger Ritch experiences, he likes to pretend that he’s in a lighthouse three miles offshore rather than in the house bordering the seawall in Marshfield, Massachusetts. The boarded windows block the view of the ocean, but he can still hear the rumbling, followed by a few seconds of respite before another wave slams against the wall.
“What happens here is the water hits the seawall, goes straight up, covers our house but also covers the house in back,” Ritch told Storm Chaser Brandon Clement, motioning to the front of his neighbor’s home across the street. He had been in the process of boarding up the windows when Clement approached him.
Late Tuesday night, peak wind gusts as high as 87 mph were reported at Scituate, Massachusetts. Additionally, gusts of 83 mph were recorded in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Video footage captured by Clement showed powerful winds blasting coastal New England areas in what looked like scenes straight out of a hurricane.
