stupid Frances

[Frank Kohler]

stupid Frances i was going diving this weekend till this stupid thing came.

 

[alemaozinho]

stupid Frances i was going diving this weekend till this stupid thing came.

Hurricanes have no IQ......................... :11:

 

[FredT]

Look at the bright side. EVERY wreck on the Fla east coast will be a "brand new dive site" once they are relocated after this storm. Andrew moved many wrecks several hundred yards and "rearranged" most of the others in much less surge exposure time.

Be happy if you can still type to the board after this thing passes. From what I've seen so far the power infrastructure over most of the northern and easter, 3/4s of the state will have to be rebuilt, a bunch of it from near scratch. Power to run your 'puter may be several weeks away.

FT

 

[teknitroxdiver]

Yeah me too. I know how you feel. (Sigh...)

 

[baltimoron]

I got a trip cancelled over it. yeah i am pretty bummed out.

 

[Maya]

I had a huge maple tree fall on my house.....I'm pretty bummed out too!! Sign on plywood in Orlando " Take it easy, girl...save something for Ivan"....I guess you gotta keep your sense of humor!

 

[DarkWaterDiver]

Hurricanes are bummers, but on the brightside of things we'll find lots of new things under the water. The currents will unearth things that were never seen before, so we could see some interesting things come out of these storms.

 

[Scubaguy62]

Andrew moved many wrecks several hundred yards and "rearranged" most of the others in much less surge exposure time.

It's true that, at least in the Fort Lauderdale area (not sure what it did in Miami), Andrew stripped the Ancient Mariner (72fsw) from the additions that made it a restaurant before it was sunk, almost tore the Mercedes in two (97fsw), threw tower one into tower two of the Tennecco Towers' wreck (102 fsw on the shallow end), and its most acclaimed work, it righted the Jim Atria from lying on its port side, in 110 fsw, to resting right side up in 132 fsw.

However, Andrew was a Cat 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of more than 165 mph and wind gusts of over 200 mph vs. Frances that was a Cat 2 with winds of 102 mph with gusts of 130 mph. Frances was a slower moving storm, but with a difference of more than 70 mph difference in the gust factor and 60 mph in the sustained wind, I doubt Frances did as much as Andrew. If we get hit with Ivan, hopefully it will right the Spiegel Grove and make it a shallower dive

 

[H2Andy]

sorry about your cancelled trip, frank... at least you didnt' have to chainsaw your way
out of your side door!!

 

[simbrooks]

We also had to cancel our diving weekend down in the SE and also our back up plans at the springs - then of course there are the knock on flooding of the rivers stopping us diving the springs and lack of viz on SE from the bottom being stirred up preventing our other plans. So onto plan C!

Sorry to hear about the tree/house collision, we did a lot better this time than during Charley. I wont say "Bring on Ivan" though!