Lieutenant Island Bridge Damaged in Storm
— 18 December 2000
Driving rain and gusts exceeding 50 knots slammed against the Outer Cape
last night. Augmenting an already significant tidal flow, the storm thrust
tons of wrack and debris through the marsh channels and against the one-lane
tinkertoy bridge spanning the Lieutenant Island causeway.
The windward railing collapsed under the strain.
Along the shoreline along Turtle Point and Turtle Pass, the storm wrack
piled 10 to 20 feet deep and several feet high. The surge reached far
above the high tide line, raking nesting dunes and potentially drowning any
lingering, over-wintered hatchlings. The extent of this tide matched the
late January storm flood of last winter.
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