To the Editor:
In last week’s paper, Jay Mann, in The Fish Story, commented about the ordinance concerning “vehicles passing through flood waters must not issue large wakes. Vehicularly produced waves can indeed compromise protective sand bags or heighten water threatening shops and buildings.”
At the height of the storm last week, when the water on Bay Terrace in front of my house was about 14 inches (I measured it), a FedEx truck sped past, sending out a wake that traveled across my garden and slapped…
October 23, 2025
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