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Originally Posted by bumpdraft
Hope everybody on the west coast is still afloat.
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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.
08-31-2016, 10:16 PM
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