MATTNOYES.NET -EW ENGLAND PHOTOS: The Storm in Plum Island "2010"

This Owl was in the same spot for hours. Parker Riverational Wildlife Refuge.
Surf was high at Plum Island Center, but even at high tide, the waves were breaking short of the sandbag barrier and washing up, rather than crashing onto the artificial dune. The wind was relatively light.

The island's shifting sand sporadically buries or exposes pieces of the Ingomar's carcass, which can only be seen near low tide. There have been dozens of shipwrecks off Plum Island over the past four centuries.
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Plum Island Storm 2010, originally uploaded by dianezink1021. Sand bags are along the banks because of the houses.
Plum Island--New York's answer to Area 51--will live on a bit longer. The secretive federal animal research lab off the north fork of Long Island got a bit of a reprieve when Congress decided not to fund its replacement in Kansas,