WILDWOOD, N.J. - Hurricane Ian may have run its course through Florida, but the deadly storm isn't finished with the Jersey Shore just yet.
Angry waves are tearing through sand dunes, causing major flooding across the New Jersey coast. The beach in Wildwood has narrowed since chunks of sand have been washed away in the surf.
Mayor Patrick Rosenello of North Wildwood says he's expecting more of the dunes to go. "This is a major breach of our dune system," said Rosenello. "This dune is protecting our beach patrol headquarters.
We’ve lost 20 feet just since yesterday afternoon. If we go through another tide-cycle, we’ll see this dune completely breached."The big concern is if the dune that stands in the way of the beach patrol building gets washed away, commercial properties will be directly exposed to the wrath of the intense, white-topped waves.