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| When people who like watching big surf see a North wind blowing, they start thinking Brant Rock. The Rock has more northerly bearing than most neighborhood beaches, and they really take their lumps on the back end of a nor'easter... or a near-miss hurricane. |
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| Generally, Scituate gets it worse with East winds, Duxbury holds the crown with NE winds and Brant Rock gets her worst damage with North winds. |
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| Sometimes I get out of the car, sometimes I shoot between cycles of the wiper blades |
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| This is about two hours before high tide on Thursday, so things got worse. |
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| Brant Rock gets her name from Brant Geese, which used to rest on those rocks back in map-drawing time. A few local areas are named for wildlife. Gurnet Point got her name because someone influential thought that it looked like a place in England where he used to catch Gurnett Fish. |
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| This is where all the splashover water comes from which eventually washes downhill and floods the Esplanade |
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| Marsh Vegas aint no joke when Poseidon has been angered by the ways of men. |
