Wild, stormy night on Camden Harbor sends seawater surging onto land
The benches at Harbor Park, at the head of Camden Harbor, are surrounded by seawater as surging swells from a coastal storm flooded the waterfront. (Photo by Alison McKellar)
Snow and water rise against the rehabilitated American Boat House at the head of Camden Harbor. (Photo by Alison McKellar)
The ocean rose high enough to swamp the harbor master’s building at the Camden Public Landing April 10, around 1 a.m. (Photo by Alison McKellar)
The benches at Harbor Park, at the head of Camden Harbor, are surrounded by seawater as surging swells from a coastal storm flooded the waterfront. (Photo by Alison McKellar)
Snow and water rise against the rehabilitated American Boat House at the head of Camden Harbor. (Photo by Alison McKellar)
The ocean rose high enough to swamp the harbor master’s building at the Camden Public Landing April 10, around 1 a.m. (Photo by Alison McKellar)
CAMDEN — Alison McKellar captured the intensity of the April 9-10 coastal spring storm, which dropped 10-17 inches of heavy wet snow around the Midcoast, sent waves of seawater onto land, and knocked power out to thousands across Maine.
McKellar was at the harbor from midnight to 1:30 a.m., April 10, at high tide, and documented the water rising over the seawalls, flooding the grass at Harbor Park, and the town landing.
“The wharves got lifted up, with stuff jammed under them,” she said. “You could hear those horrible creaks as the wood on the boardwalk was rising and falling.”
The storm whipped up heavy winds, especially through the Camden-Rockport-Lincolnville and Belfast areas, and inland toward Union. Tree limbs, heavy with snow, broke onto roofs, while trees were falling across roads throughout the region, keeping local firefighters busy into the early hours of April 10.
The power was cut to many towns, with many residents remaining without electricity through the day and into the night of April 10.
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