This fall’s series of closely timed major storms accompanied by high winds and extremely high tides continues to batter the Pacific and Grays Harbor counties coastline. Major erosion is evident from Willapa Bay on up the outer coast to beyond Ocean Shores.
At Washaway, another home and travel trailer now sit just a few feet from the quickly crumbling bankline on Spruce Street a block south of Whipple Avenue. Those structures could possibly go over the side with the next stormy weather high tide.
Just a few hundred yards east, the Greg Tumidanski property that includes a house and three-car garage at the foot of the now nearly lost Old Westport Highway has also been in peril this fall. Storms early this month propelled huge waves and debris over the boulder revetment that surrounds three sides of the property, destroying the front deck steps and breaking down the boulder wall along its southern face.
Recently Tumidanski contracted to re-armor the wall, as well as adding more boulders along the now deeper northwestern edge. The roadway that formerly passed along the northern side of the property now has eroded away to the Tumidanski property line, making the small peninsula supporting the property he’s named ‘Isle Knot Go’ even deeper.
