Pier building is underway!
We were hoping to be further along than this by now,
but the pier builders didn’t work over the holiday weekend
and then the beginning of the week was rainy…
but we’re making progress!
They’ve taken out most of the old pilings,
leaving a few key pilings to mark the footprint of the original pier
so they can rebuild it exactly the way it was before the hurricane
If you make any changes
you have to get approval from the Army Corps of Engineers
which is a long involved process
Almost every pier and marina sustained major damage
in Orange Beach during Hurricane Sally last September
so we feel lucky to have gotten this far
It is a tedious process,
they use a crane on a barge to remove old pilings and set the new ones
Once the old pilings and other debris was on the beach
they physically carried it to a trailer on the street in front of the house
Luckily a crew showed up to help carry the old out and the new in
We were amazed at the strength and agility of these guys,
not to mention the primitive process of this building
They have a large pipe device that is like a reverse vacuum,
they position it in the water where they want to set the piling
and it shoots air into the sand and creates a deep hole
that they insert the piling into
We have one of our boats anchored to the shore
just past the construction zone
The big boat is still being repaired,
it’s taking forever because of shortages due to the pandemic
The Blue Angels annual July air show in Pensacola was yesterday
so we caught glimpses of them practicing all week
You never know what you’re going to see from the porch…
Hopefully our pier will look like it used too soon!
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