I saw some posts in some fakebook cruise groups I am in a bunch of ships
are sitting outside the port in Ft. Lauderdale IIRC waiting to dock. A
lot of people complaining they could not dock down in the Bahamas due to
high wind and rough seas.
On 12/17/2023 4:36 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote:
Could very well have been. When it gets windy, they’ll close the port, so they
have to sit out in the Gulf and wait for it to open. The cruise terminal is
right down the street from my office, but I avoid it like the plague, of
course. It’s either going 100 miles an hour because there are ships in port, or
it’s shuttered.
No doubt it was windier than it usually can be during a storm, but it just
didn’t seem all that bad to me. I was watching the radar all afternoon
yesterday to see when the dookie was going to hit the fan, but there was very
little that affected us. Most of the rowdy stuff was out in the Gulf or to the
east of us as it moved north.
-D
On Dec 17, 2023, at 5:27 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I will say lots of cruise ships didn’t get to dock at their ports and seas were
rough, so I read.
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On Dec 17, 2023, at 4:19 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
They ginned this one up like it was going to be a Big Deal, but other than a
lot of wind from the south, I don’t think it’s been that bad. Having said that,
I did see several trees down and a lot of stuff dropped out of them like you
would see after a hurricane or strong thunderstorm while running errands this
morning, so maybe it was pretty rowdy. Must have been so overnight as I didn’t
see anything during the day.
It’s the dry season here so any rain is a big help.
-D
On Dec 17, 2023, at 5:10 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
We have been getting quite a storm today. Like a tropical storm and raining
quite hard. Started late last night. Lots of thunder earlier. I went on a
little ramble while the rain slacked off checking out the flooding and effects
of this storm. It’s fairly warm so not unpleasant. The road to Seabrook was
closed earlier at high tide at the Haulover (between 2 creeks and the marsh)
and there’s still maybe 6” over the road by the marina. Some people are braving
it but still blasting through like morons. Lots of other moronic behavior
related to driving through high water earlier it appears. “I have FOUR WHEEL
DRIVE!!!” Saw 4 or 5 high-end SUVs (Audi BMW Lexi no Benzes) on flatbed
haulers getting dragged to the shop and 2 one with water draining out of the
front under pan. I guess they didn’t have high enough clearance to blast
through a foot of water.
All those electronics in there get Very Unhappy as I guess they’ll find out
soon enough. And I doubt if insurance or warranty will be prone to pay for
stupidity like that.
Rain started fairly hard again. I forgot to look at my rain gauge but my cousin
in Savannah earlier said they had 5” so far.
The very high tide had the back yard flooded pretty good earlier. A buddy down
the road had about a foot of water over his dock on the creek.
--FT
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