Lawd! I have NEVER seen this from the NWS before:

[Warpy]

145. I was on the south side of the Cape

and went to the beach (or a quarter mile from where it usually was) before the storm really hit hard. However, things down there are built to withstand storms like that and it wasn't a direct hit--I'm not completely stupid. 80 knot winds aren't all that unusual on the south Cape. Snowplows are hooked up year round to get deep sand off the roads.

We decided we'd had enough sightseeing when the car started to roll backward against the emergency brake and spent the rest of the storm indoors by kerosene lamp, our cats purring in our lap and strays I'd been rehabbing hanging out in the cellar.

Storm watching is a big deal if you live near the shore. There isn't a hell of a lot more to do in the off season.

I don't think the beach volleyball got very far. Likely they quit after about 5 minutes of getting sandblasted.

Sightseeing was better the day after, hundreds of boats whose owners couldn't be arsed to rig them for storms were smashed on bridges and up on the shore, harbormasters red faced and screaming about lawsuits.