NO EXIT!: The heavens let loose last week. In a deluge instant, we became an island alone, insular in our inability to get off this 21-mile long strip of vulnerable sand. An estimated3 or more inches of rain poured down inless thanan hour.
It was truly a Flash Gordon flood, above your everyday flash flood. Things got so deep thatcirca midnight, there was suddenly no way of getting off LBI. Ship Bottom police pulled the plug on exiting when Lake Causeway peaked. As to coming onto the Island, it would have been easier swimming over.
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