That was a hurricane in my world,” said Wendy Northcross, the chief executive officer of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce.Northcross was the executive director of the Hyannis area chamber of commerce in 1991.The day before had been the annual Pops By-The-Sea concert and the big tent was still up on the village green.“We watched tree after tree go down in our yard. The Buzzards Bay shore east to Cape Cod was hardest hit. "While winds are dangerous, it is the storm surge and water damage from rains that cause the most destruction, Judge said.A 6-to-9-foot tidal surge above the high tide mark was recorded in the upper reaches of Buzzards Bay, Thompson said.
Because of its forward speed, it passed over the Cape in just 1¼ hours; Orloff said it was followed by sun and rainbows.Orloff lost 21 trees in his yard that took five years and thousands of dollars to clear away.“There was no fall and no spring to speak of,” Orloff said. For other storms of the same name, see The heaviest winds, Thompson said, were on Martha’s Vineyard and the Upper Cape, especially Falmouth. Twenty-five years ago, the weather service didn’t have the computing power it has now. Before they returned to bed that night, three, including Manos, had died on the Cape, and Massachusetts had suffered $1 billion in damage.The entire Cape lost power. In towns like Eastham with no public water system, the power outage killed the pumps that supplied water from their wells. 02631; (508) 896-3491. The Buzzards Bay shore east to Cape Cod was hardest hit. 02657; (508) 487-1256.Nickerson State Park, Route 6A, Brewster, Mass. But fast moving storms like Bob don’t have enough time over the cooler ocean waters to lose much of their energy.“We typed our forecasts in,” Thompson said. 02631; (508) 896-3491. “He was a good friend.”Manos, the co-founder of Provincetown’s public radio station WOMR, ventured out 25 years ago as the winds from Hurricane Bob abated. It topped 180,000 for Hurricane Bob in 1991 and is now more than 213,000. No one reported damage beyond some minor beach erosion in High tides to 5.9 feet (1.8 m) occurred along the Delaware coastline.Farther north, the storm caused widespread beach erosion along the Before Bob made landfall in the New England mainland, it passed directly over Block Island, Rhode Island. Rodney Valentini, a gym teacher at Bourne High School, died when he was electrocuted while helping clean the basement of the Dolphin Inn.
The Cape Cod region "can expect tropical storm force winds and rain," but that its current track takes the storm inland to the western and central parts of the state, the release said. In the aftermath of Hurricane Bob on Cape Cod… Just three days later, it slammed into the Rhode Island coast before crossing Massachusetts. ... Average years between direct hurricane hits.
02642; (508) 255-3421.Province Lands Visitor Center, Provincetown, Mass. As of 2010, Hurricane Bob ranked as the 22nd costliest tropical cyclone in the United States mainland. Since 1851, only 10 hurricanes have made direct hits in the state and the region has never taken a direct hit from a category four or five storm. The highest surges, of 12 to 15 feet, were observed in Onset, Bourne, Mashpee and Wareham, at the head of Buzzard's Bay. 02537; (508) 888-6870.Cape Cod National Seashore, Salt Pond Visitor Center, Eastham, Mass. Homes in the Taylors Point community in Buzzards Bay were flooded as the surge came up the western end of the Cape Cod Canal. The headlines in the Cape Cod Times that Monday morning said the storm might hit the Cape, upgrading the chances from 20 percent to 35 percent. Many boat owners, reluctant to end their boating season, left their boats in the water.“People were not paying attention,” said Charles Orloff, executive director at the Blue Hill Weather Observatory. The storm required the shutdown of As the hurricane passed east of Virginia, it produced minimal rainfall and wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour (64 km/h). Now, September should be a fine month for warblers, and, as a benefit to birders, they will be able to see species more easily through the barer branches."Mr. View on timesmachine. A lot of development on Cape Cod has occurred since Bob, with larger, more expensive homes in … Thompson was also in charge back in August of 1991 when the office was located in East BostonMany hurricanes originate off the African coast, make their way slowly, taking a week to cross the Atlantic before turning north or heading into the Caribbean. The leaves on the trees that were left standing were browned by salt spray.