I gaze longingly at unfamiliar bodies of water -- inlets, rivers, even canals -- trying to imagine the best entry point, the longest distance across for swimming laps, and whether any creatures, currents or algae will deter me.
But with so much water coming at once, and with tides running two to five feet above normal, the water piling up in inlets, rivers and bays will have nowhere to drain, potentially resulting in extensive inland flooding, forecasters said.
"It was a bit of a Swallows and Amazons spot, a beautiful coastline, lots of little inlets, rivers," says Ainslie. "I had friends on the other side of the creek so quite often the only way to meet was sailing or rowing over to one another".
Few Throgs Neck homes, including three rental apartment buildings and Throgs Neck Houses, one of the Bronx's first low-income city projects, are more than seven blocks from a bay, creek, inlet or river.
Norwegian smolt production is characterized by almost exclusively utilizing surface waters as inlet-water sources, with lake inlets constituting 88% and river inlets 12%.
In peacetime, Corps engineers dredged inlets and rivers, built levees and dikes, maintained ports, and assisted in waterborne commerce.
Kyonku is a small village in the delta of the Irrawaddy River, an area connected by a vast network of canals, inlets and rivers.
It is audacious to even think that she could know how any one corner of the sprawling, sloshing, wind-tossed system of bays, inlets and rivers that constitute the New York Harbor estuary really works.
While winds blow onshore, rainfall runoff will pile on top of the storm surge in some locations, particularly around inlets where rivers drain into the Atlantic Ocean, like Cape Fear and Jacksonville, N.C.
The resources of the sea and inlets and rivers were of astonishing variety, and some, like the salmon during their runs, were so easy to catch that the word "harvesting" seems more appropriate than "fishing" for this activity.
