Weather was nice today, should be back to diving tomorrow morning I would think. Winds light, seas going down rapidly, minimal damage to area that I can see, very little and minor really.
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The webcam at the Presidente is not working at the moment but it was late last night and the sea looked calm. I did find one live cam that mostly showed a couple of cruise ships, but the sea looked pretty flat and I saw a couple of small boats passing by. Are things back to normal today?
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"Officials have not disclosed why the man was out to sea while small craft advisories and hurricane warnings had already been issued in the area as Hurricane Helene was expected to make landfall." I wondered what kind of fool would be out sailing with a Cat-4 closing in.
abcnews.go.com
Man and his dog rescued from disabled boat 25 miles out to sea as Hurricane Helene fast approached
The United States Coast Guard has rescued a man and his dog during Hurricane Helene when his boat became disabled and started taking on water 25 miles out to sea.
abcnews.go.com
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Some people have more guts than brains."Officials have not disclosed why the man was out to sea while small craft advisories and hurricane warnings had already been issued in the area as Hurricane Helene was expected to make landfall." I wondered what kind of fool would be out sailing with a Cat-4 closing in.
Man and his dog rescued from disabled boat 25 miles out to sea as Hurricane Helene fast approached
The United States Coast Guard has rescued a man and his dog during Hurricane Helene when his boat became disabled and started taking on water 25 miles out to sea.
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I think they're still taking bets on the possibilities of North Carolina Lake Lure Dam and Tennessee Nolichucky dam failing.
gopbroek
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Yes it does
The question / concern I have is if it does develope and tracks up thru the gulf coast will we still have blocking weather in the upper US and east that captures and entraps the weather? The extremely high rainfall experienced when it stalled out appears to have caused the large loss of life from the remnants of Helene.
In the early 90's on my first visit to Texas I read an indepth article in the Sunday DMN about how these storms when trapped inland can produce local rainfall as high as 50" and if one got trapped in the upper Trinity river basin it could flood out 125K homes in Dallas County. That article caused me to buy a home on an elvated ridge, a few years later. A few years back Harvey dumped north of 50". You do not have to live in a coastal area to be at risk from these storms.
Well, in the meantime, diving has been great. The water might be a little cloudy out deep, perhaps a bit more on the shallow banks but viz is still over 100 feet and beautiful blue and warm.
Storms, storms, go away, come again some other (never) day.
Storms, storms, go away, come again some other (never) day.
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There is a low pressure area gathering to the south and east of the Yucatan in the same location that spawned what became Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
