After a few miles, we come to a long section of shoreline where wind and sun have left the beach increasingly bare of snow.
Gerard's repetition of this hopeful refrain reminded us again of the storm, as did Forti's manipulation of the papers in Gerard's wake: she picked them up and, distractedly, haphazardly, crumpled them against her body and let them fall — a human shoreline buffeted by wind and waves.
The name is short for St . Marys by the Sea, a city-owned park consisting of a winding, shoreline walkway overlooking Black Rock Harbor and a small beach.
Even so, several hurricanes passing close to the shoreline with strong winds and heavy rain have caused significant damage over the years.
But utility workers with expertise in handling fallen trees and electrical lines have swarmed into the state, particularly along the eastern shoreline, where blasts of wind snapped limbs, pushed down trees and caused "massive damage," she said.
Here, even before an epic drought made the shoreline look lunar, the wind howled most afternoons and the trees were sparse and twisted.
But the expansive lower Columbia River, its marshes and winding, forested shoreline, lay clear before us.
We know that mangroves, coral reefs, salt marshes and seagrass meadows protect shorelines from high tides, wind surges and flooding from these storms.
The geomorphology of beach shoreline, distance from the outlet channel, wind strength, wind direction, tide height, wave height, rainfall, time lapse after a rainstorm, or channel flow rate played a role in affecting the distribution of FIB concentrations in beach water.
The Hong Kong Observatory warned of possible flooding in low-lying areas, strong winds and a storm surge from ocean waters pushed higher up the shoreline than usual by the wind.
