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Charleston’s historic downtown area flooded Monday, as now-Tropical Storm Irma continued churning northward from Florida. The Post and Courier said the storm had generated a 9.9-foot tide, the third highest on record for the city,
The storm had another impact that I haven't seen mentioned. The beach this morning in Cocoa Beach was littered with hundreds of hatchling turtles that stood no chance against the hard onshore flow. They were joined by a large number of older and yearling little turtles who were pushed in from farther offshore. I spent the morning gathering a bucketful of weary little guys and handed them off to the turtle people who had their craziest day ever collecting all these turtles. I imagine the entire east coast saw similar. I also found some exposed turtle eggs from nests that were washed out. Not a good day for sea turtles. Overall, the beach faired well with sand lost at the shoreline and sand gained on the dune. Swell is just now dying down with hard SW wind.
On another note, Cocoa Beach took a pretty hard hit with widespread damage. The roof on the CB police station lifted off during the night. The oceanfront building I rode the storm out in had four AC units blown off their perches on the roof. One landed in the pool. We have no water and no power and expect a long wait. Heard that there were multiple, as yet unlocated major water line breaks from soft and saturated soil that allowed the aging pipes to break. I'm emptying the pool one bucket at a time.
My area in north Nokomis came through relatively unscathed
No flooding in any of our homes---seems like our storm drains worked very well
The reduced strength of Irma undoubtedly was a blessing to many west of the eye
The scariest thing was having a queen Palm in front yard fall parallel to house--not on roof...
Sideline fence is somewhat pushed sideways but kept our pool cage w/o any lost screening or bent sections
Our daughter's house in good shape as well
We were definitely on the right (left) side of the eye...seeing what is going on along the east coast I am just incredibly grateful not to be dealing with that flooding...
I can't thank those of you who followed this storm for so long and gave so unselfishly of your time and analysis enough...
I felt that I got much better info about what was going to happen than from almost any other source-and without knowing ANY of you I could trust your opinions...
So thank you who obviously are staying with Irma in the last days of her passage--
pbMaise, Cambium, Psychoma---you are the best IMO...
While I hope I don't need to return to this forum in the future (kind of unlikely with homes in TX and Florida), I hope you are still around --- doing your thing---cause you are top-notch in my book!!
That went viral in Houston's flooding--so someone added a US flag---
Totally fake
The guy who did it originally a couple of years ago couldn't believe it became such a meme and that people BELIEVED it...
The storm had another impact that I haven't seen mentioned. The beach this morning in Cocoa Beach was littered with hundreds of hatchling turtles that stood no chance against the hard onshore flow. They were joined by a large number of older and yearling little turtles who were pushed in from farther offshore. I spent the morning gathering a bucketful of weary little guys and handed them off to the turtle people who had their craziest day ever collecting all these turtles. I imagine the entire east coast saw similar. I also found some exposed turtle eggs from nests that were washed out. Not a good day for sea turtles. Overall, the beach faired well with sand lost at the shoreline and sand gained on the dune. Swell is just now dying down with hard SW wind.
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Reporter on the Today Show this morning spent many minutes trying to rescue a baby dolphin that was too tired to swim past the breakers. Some experts finally came down and took care of it.
That went viral in Houston's flooding--so someone added a US flag---
Totally fake
The guy who did it originally a couple of years ago couldn't believe it became such a meme and that people BELIEVED it...
Reporter on the Today Show this morning spent many minutes trying to rescue a baby dolphin that was too tired to swim past the breakers. Some experts finally came down and took care of it.
Actually the reporter was able to return the young dolphin--he had to walk it out into waist high water and hold it to allow it to acclimate after being on shore for so long
And he and his crew saw a man on shore a little farther down that had found a mature dolphin stranded
The reporter had the other men help him hold the dolphin appropriately and I thought they returned it to the Gulf...
Apparently he has experience with turtles and dolphins in similar circumstances because of his years following /interviewing the National Oceanographic institute people and stories about the oceans...
Your comment makes it seem that he did something inappropriate--like a reporter trying to hype himself vs acting professional....
That wasn't the impression I got at all...
He was also involved in helping relocate some young hatching turtles too I think
Or maybe that was another person....
Whoever helped the young turtles did turn them over to experts for final determination
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