An unexpected water spout in the vicinity of Drum Point Road's in Brick this morning put a stop to a planned regatta event and sent one young man to the hospital with a leg injury.
A water spout, which some say is like a tornado on the water, came through and turned over some cat boats. One was taken off its trailer, said Shore Acres Yacht Club Vice-Commodore Bob Goodyear.
“This happened at about 11:15 or 11:30 this morning. We had our Shore Acres Hobie Regatta scheduled, and we were getting ready to launch. We had three committee boats already in the water. I was on one of them,” said Goodyear.
Goodyear explained that no one in the boats was hurt, but a young man at the club did suffer a leg injury and was taken to a local hospital by Brick Township EMT’s.
Additionally, the regatta has been canceled for the day.
“It’s too windy to race out there. It was pretty intense. Some RV’s here were lifted off the ground. We had broken glass and some other good stuff. Apart from the young man with the leg injury, no one else was hurt,” said Goodyear.
Sorry, I am used to my disasters being of the man-made variety. When the weather attempts to smite us, I'm sorry, I'm running in the opposite direction.
I hope this young man comes to full recovery!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJA7TU-90D0 I was in Brooklyn close to the Canarsie area. I heard what I thought was the neighbor bringing a trash can to the back of the house. When it went on for longer than that would take I decided it was thunder, the longest thunder I had ever experienced. My son and his wife have a cabana at Breezy. Their cabana was untouched but the string of cabanas attached behind them were torn apart. If you view a map you will see this is the end of a Peninsula and is a Barrier island. There are million dollar homes that started out as modest bungalows many years ago. Thank God no one was hurt.