P.E.I. dunes may not recover from ‘striking’ Fiona damage before next storm: experts
“But what we saw in Fiona was a very large storm that hit at high tide – a very large storm surge and very large waves and as a result, a large section of the beach and a large part of the dune were eroded,” he said.
A Sept. 30, 1923, storm with heavy winds produced large waves and surges causing extensive dune erosion that took several decades to heal, Houser said. A 2010 study about the evolution of dunes in P.E.I. said newspaper records show the storm surge from the 1923 deluge affected more than 50 bridges _ many of them were washed away or left impassable across fishing harbours along the north shore.
While piping plovers and bank swallows had already taken flight south before Fiona hit, he said ecologists will be closely monitoring coastal ecosystems and at-risk species over the coming year to see how the storm affected the animals and their habitats.
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