Packing up today. Be in HB by 7 or so. I had a chance to see the new NOAA inundation map and Weeki Wachee went from 3' to almost zero over night. Looks worse here in SC!?! Wasn't sure if I would rather arrive to a flooded home, or be there to witness it. Hope I dodge it.

Part II

Watch that surge and be save everyone.

safe, be safe..
I have already been saved !

This storm is becoming a PIA!! That last feeder band is causing more rain and storms than all day Wednesday and Thursday. Started around 3:00am and looks to be here all day. Good news though, went yesterday to Total Wine and I'm all stocked up!!! :)

Not being a scallop aficionado as the England crew is, I'm assuming might cloud up the water for a week or two and make the scallops scarce?

That line just showed up here. Looks like it may be training over us for a while. Hope everybody on the west coast is still afloat.

Seacraft Scallop Scenario
 

Ron, Dougie and I headed up to Weeki Wednesday afternoon to see what we needed to gather up and head to high ground with. The picture below is low tide late in the afternoon and high tide wasn't until 3:00 AM. The Seacraft was safe down in Indian Rocks, but I had that 'ol fat ass Bertram up there on the three axle. We kept measuring the rate of increase of the tide and left for high ground at 11:00 PM to beat the rush. The one's who were "Going to ride it out" said the water came in steady at the rate of 6" per hour and the went up a foot and a half in 20 minutes, while the power went out, the wind was howling and trees were breaking and taking power lines down. We dropped the Bert off at a County Park and eased back in there about 4:00 PM on Friday - everybody was shell-shocked. All but one said "we'er followin' yur ass out of here next time 'cause this was real, real scary".
Anyway gettin' to the main crux of the how this relates to the Seacraft Scallop Scenario, while Marsh and I were sitting on my steps watching the fire burn from all the shit that fell out of the trees, like the good Cub Scouts we are, one of my neighbor's walks up to see if we want to come down for some Cobia steakes. I asked him "Did your freezer quit?". He said "Naw, we went scalloping today and got a cobia on a nearby rock pile". He said "Yea, we limited out in about two hours and the water was surprisingly clear. You could see the bottom in 8' but you had to dive down about a foot and a half under the surface to see the scallops". I went down to his place and saw the cobia and the fresh scallop shells - amazing! I'll check the situation out at the scallop grounds this weekend and report back next Sunday.

Glad all are well.

Sounds like you all have been busy Terry, good to hear from you.

We are a week away from the big event! Hope the weather and everything holds out so we can still have a great weekend!

I may take the boat up from Bradenton and do some fishing on the way....