"When it rains, the whole pier closes, so we don't do any business at all," Ms. Heinold said.
Flood warnings flashed, tides and waves surged, boats smashed against piers, seven inches or so of rain fell.
"It was a rude awakening for me," he said recently, sitting in front of expansive windows framing the activity on his rain-slicked piers.
It's hard to lay 1,600 feet of pipe off of a beach (to carry municipal rain runoff out to sea) when there's no pier nearby to run workers and supplies to the barge that floats the cranes.
Luis Benitez, 44, known around Dyckman Street as Indio, and Fausto Andreas, 54, who showed why his nom de pier is Sinatra Latino by belting out a few lines of "Come Rain or Come Shine," both address Mr. Modesto as Caballero, a gentleman of high station.
The summer of acid rain ReprintsA century and a half ago, promoters of piers were surprised at this.
"If their phone says it might rain in Brighton, they stay away," says a veteran of the pier.
Ocean water samples were taken at the Tijuana River mouth (Tijuana, Mexico and Imperial Beachh pier (1.4 km north of the Tijuana River mouth in San Diego, California) following four separate rain events.
A 150-year-old pier has become the latest casualty of Storm Frank as the heavy rains caused it to partially collapse into the sea.
There had been torrential rains, and sod that had been laid down on the pier for the show was damp, and heels got stuck in it.
