{"id":17765,"date":"2021-02-07T00:31:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T05:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=17765"},"modified":"2021-02-07T00:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T05:31:25","slug":"brick-beaches-suffer-damage-but-dunes-still-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/02\/brick-beaches-suffer-damage-but-dunes-still-intact\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Beaches Suffer Damage, But Dunes Still Intact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"v-UP9e49fL-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1000' height='562' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/UP9e49fL?hd=1&cover=1&loop=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=1&muted=0&controls=1&playsinline=0&useAverageColor=0&preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/video\/assets\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js'><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township beaches suffered damage and erosion like most fellow Jersey Shore oceanfront communities, but a look at the township\u2019s two primary public beaches showed it was not nearly as bad as elsewhere.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8759\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brick_beach_feb4_2020_noreaster_296-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8759\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8759\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brick_beach_feb4_2020_noreaster_296-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Beach III following the Feb. 2021 nor'easter. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Beach III following the Feb. 2021 nor\u2019easter. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8762\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brick_beach_feb4_2020_noreaster_299-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8762\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8762\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brick_beach_feb4_2020_noreaster_299-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Beach III following the Feb. 2021 nor'easter. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Beach III following the Feb. 2021 nor\u2019easter. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick\u2019s beach entrances were intact, as was its dune line, but a wave of sand blown in from the strong northeast winds of the storm did nearly bury the railings of entranceways. Dunes did not have the cliff-like enscarpments that have been found in communities such as Ortley Beach or Bay Head, however dune grass was flooded by seawater and some is covered in sand.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8760\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brick_beach_feb4_2020_noreaster_297-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8760\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8760\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brick_beach_feb4_2020_noreaster_297-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Beach III following the Feb. 2021 nor'easter. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Beach III following the Feb. 2021 nor\u2019easter. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8761\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brick_beach_feb4_2020_noreaster_298-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8761\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8761\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brick_beach_feb4_2020_noreaster_298-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Beach entrance sign, Feb. 2021. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Beach entrance sign, Feb. 2021. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The good news, forecasters say, is that a storm powering through the Shore area Sunday will come and go fast, with the system moving quickly northward at about 40 m.p.h.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/02\/brick-beaches-suffer-damage-but-dunes-still-intact\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township beaches suffered damage and erosion like most fellow Jersey Shore oceanfront communities, but a look at the township\u2019s two primary public beaches showed it was not nearly as bad as elsewhere. Brick\u2019s beach entrances were intact, as was its dune line, but a wave of sand blown in from the strong northeast winds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/brick_beach_feb4_2020_noreaster_296-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4Cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}