The Hurricane Barrier Wall

For this post I am going to focus on the Hurricane Barrier wall here in New Bedford,

It cost $1,000 a foot, is long enough to span the 3.5 mile width of New Bedford, is as high (and wider ) than The Great Wall of China, and has enough steel in it to build a Navy destroyer.

Its two huge steel navigational-sector gates weigh 400 tons apiece-each 35 tons heavier than the biggest locomotive ever built-and each as tall as a six-story house. When the gates swing shut at the touch of a button to lock out devastating storm tides, they create a pond inside the barrier which could cover 6,500 acres of land with a foot of water. They keep out much more of course.

These shots are not the part of the barrier walk that has a walkway installed on top but at the end of the Harbor walk portion and heading to the gates.

This first shot is a 73 second exposure ( yes it was pretty dark when I took this) beside the wall, and my favorite shot of this series.

At the top of those poles I believe are solar panels to power lights which serves as a guide to ships coming in.

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This next shot shows a portion of the wall and someone has painted character on it, not sure if it is Chinese or Japanese ( or some other language) and also I don't know what it says, which I gues sis obvious and could have not been said since I don't know what language it is

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At the end of this portion of the wall is the control room and gate I mentioned that closes off the wall in a storm or hurricane, the other side of the gate joins with the Fairhaven portion of the Barrier wall

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And another shot of the walkway beside the wall

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And another very early morning shot looking over the wall with stars clear in the sky.

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And finishing off looking at the top of the Hurricane Barrier, now after my wife's fall and injury last year she does worry ( too much sometimes) about me slipping and falling when out on my own and asked me not to walk on the top of this portion of the wall, So officially I didn't and this shot could possible have bene taken from on the harbor walk

But for the record the time I did fall recently was not on this walk if I did walk on this spot ( not saying I did) I would have bene very careful to watch my step and where I was walking, unlike what I was doing in another place when I was so focused on what I wanted a shot of I did not pay enough attention to where I was walking.

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