Sagaponack / Wainscott border, April 2007
Mother Nature showed us both how powerful She is and how much She loves us during this weekend’s Nor’easter here in the Hamptons.
Many trees were downed and the ocean boiled and roared. But after hearing warnings of a storm approaching that would be equal to or harsher than the 1992 storm that took over 100 houses in Westhampton and seriously eroded beaches along the entire south fork coast, we remained relatively unscathed, albiet quite impressed.
Water came over the dunes at Main Beach in East Hampton and the popular parking lot was closed today, as the village crews pushed the sand back onto the beach.
The photo above was the most serious erosion I saw as I drove from beach to beach along East Hampton, Wainscott, Sagaponack, Bridgehampton, Water Mill and Southampton.
I passed actor Roy Scheider as he picked up small pieces of windswept debris around his oceanfront property off Gibson Lane in Sagaponack, clearly relieved that his property, which is reportedly on the market for sale, was intact.
Another clients home on Gin Lane remained secure and the dunes stood strong, but the beach up to the dunes was swept away during the storm. md
Westhampton (now the village of Westhampton Dunes), 1992
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3 comments
April 17, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Joanne Hanson
The storm that hit you threatened central Colorado and then went south of us. Denver was expecting to be really slammed, so they were glad it missed. Here in the mountains, we got some more snow, and ended up with most of our ski areas closing with an 80 base! It was the best coverage we had all year and the lifts aren’t running. Too bad! Oh well, I am ready to see some daffodils, but it could be a while yet….
April 21, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Herb
This question doesn’t really belong with this article, but I had nowhere else to put it.
I see 33 Herb Court, about one acre of vacant land, traded for $4.9mm. The good thing about vacant land is it creates a fairly pure comp. On the one hand, I think of Herb Court as a nothing special cul-de-sac (although the name has a nice ring); on the other hand, it does abut a reserve. I would have priced this land in the $2-2.5mm range, yet a professional builder valued it at twice that. Am I missing something or have values moved a lot further than I realized? What is the value of the reserve view?
April 21, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Michael Daly
Yes, it’s a suprisingly healthy trading price, Herb. That lot is actually on a “pond”, albeit manmade when the subdivision was created in the 80’s. That was always the lot that the owner thought was the most premium of the undeveloped lots. There is one more that looks out over reserve towards Parsonage and another on Townline Rd.
It’s one of those magical things about the Hamptons, Herb – lightening does strike! michael