C R Y D E R P O I N T FEBRUARY 7 www.qNS.com | FEBRUARY 2016 | CRYDER POINT Courier 7 Continued from page 6 Curiosity, not to mention concern, had Management and members of the Board call an urgent meeting with Jimmy to ask the looming question: How’d the wall hold up? The earliest he could navigate roads to get to Cryder Point was the following Wednesday morning. It was a long couple of days to wait. The accompanying photos provide a perspective from the water side of what the seawall looks like at this stage of the project, and it’s massive. More important, it’s doing its job. The cover photo really tells the story. During the meeting, Jimmy had one of his crew go out to the end of the dock to take the picture. Just three days after the blizzard, the only reminders that there was even a storm were a few random patches of snow. Nothing budged, and because of the wall’s design utilizing layers of boulders that force powerful waves to break apart on impact, the water that went over the wall was, relatively speaking, a dribble. Jimmy confirmed that had we still had the original wall, weakened sections of it would have completely collapsed from this storm, and areas such as the playground would have been simply destroyed and likely irreparable. Scary. We are all aware that weather patterns are changing rapidly (if you can even call them “patterns,” since the weather’s been so unpredictable). To quote Lou Garcia, “The hundred year storms are coming every year.” But after this most recent blizzard, there is great confidence that this wall is going to be protecting our community year in, year out, and for a long, long time. Photos courtesy of Right Angle Contracting
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