Photo Source: Pixabay The parking lot was empty.  No surprise there. It had been empty for a decade or more, and access to it had been cordoned off by cement Jersey barriers along the road. Weeds, thriving and tall, waved up through the pavement cracks, and scattered beach rubble, piled up by encroaching waves, made the surface impassible to all but maintenance trucks and bulldozers.   Next to the lot were the forlorn remains of a once-popular seaside restaurant, now abandoned. The...