On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:17:18 -0500, RicSeyler
wrote:
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===Roy wrote:
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===I take it you live in P'cola beach area........super nice territory
===there. I lived for a long time in Perdido area myself, until I had
===all the hurricanes I cared to have, and moved further inland. Still
===have the property in Perdido though, but now we have a camper we keep
===there which can be moved if need be.......situated right on Perdido
===Bay off the point near soldiers creek......So when there is a storm
===that is heading that way, we take two vehicles down and pickup the
===camper and the boat a 24 footer, and bring them further inland.
===
===Anything over 90mph and I bail to town :-)
I rode out Fredrick. We had come back to town and they said thiengs
were fine, (sunday evening) next day they say its heading north again,
then it should not be a problem, then not a problem, then a
problem,,and so on and the next thing its dab smack south of the house
and coming full bore. I raced from where we live now down to the
house in Perdido, with a trailer load of plywood etc to board up the
front porch windows etc as it was a wall of glass 65 feet long that
looked directly out over the bay into the gulf without a dune or tree
anywhere to break any wind (not that it would have mattered much) as
well as food and some supplies and gas and a gen set. I figured until
we (brother and I) borded it up it may be safe to stay in the basement
portion (house sat on a high bluff, with three sides of its foundation
dug into the bank and formed a sort of lower level or
basement)......state troopers did not want to allow us back inthe
area, told them my wife was there and I would only be a few
minutes......so they let us pass. Never could get a thing boarded up
as winds were already up there, so we went in the house and hoped for
the best.......had to move from the upstairs to the lower level after
front porch and roof went, then the glass front, which allowed the
wind to work on the main roof, which it eventually took off and we
only ever found a small portion of it, things soon got bad donwstairs
with water running in everywhere, and then a tree came down, and
through the upstairs floor as well, so we bailed and rode it out in my
K5 Blazer, which was a rocking and a rolling in that
wind..........mighty strange and erie feeling out in the middle of
nowhere back then, dark as can be except for lightning, no phone,
nothing...........and then come sun rise not a sound could be heard
anywhere not even a bird, and the guld was like a mirrow, without a
ripple in it......
===How did that fellow that has the sort of dome or oval shaped sputkik
===looking house fair out with Ivan last year?
===
===He was my neighbor! It did real well. He lost the staircase and the
===garage flooded.
===The Discovery Channel crew stayed in it with him and they just showed
===the episode.
==="Hurricane Summer". The Dis Channel cornered us and wanted to know if we
===would stay,
===NADA! LOL Opal was enough for me, I thought the house was going to
===collapse then.
===And you see what Ivan did, from the link. Dang glad I didn't stay. We
===went to town.
===
Glad to hear he did ok, I had heard throughn the grape vine that fella
wa gonna ride it out, as was the owner of the Chulamar..........glad
it worked out for them.
===
===Ever hear of the Charter Boat Chulamar? Skippers Dive Center? I used
===ot work there part time, and also as a dive master on the Chulamar,
===which has been renamed to somethng else now......
===
===HAHAHA Capt Bubba Thorsen!! He's a friend of mine! Small World!!
===It's still called the Chulamar, unless Bubba changed it in the last
===couple months.
===I also do his printing and he hasn't been in for anything in a couple
===months.
Thorsen does not ring a bell for some reason or other, this was back
in the late 70's, so it maya have been, and i just don;t remember.
Heck I can;t even remember the name of the owner of Skippers Dive shop
where I worked part time as an instructor.......think its out of
business now or boughtout and renamed, but IIRC it was on railroad or
wright street.......
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===Did Ft. Pickens come out ok with Ivan as well. That area is just
===beautiful, especially the old fort where Geronomo (sp?) was kept.
===Pretty hard to protect that area during a hurricane though, but its
===been there for a long time and been through a lot.
===
===NO it got trashed and there is now a pass between Ft Pickens and P'Cola
===Beach.
===It's going to be a couple years before they get the new pass filled and
===can build another
===road to open up. My friend is the park ranger there and they re-assigned
===him to
===Ft. Barancas. And he hates it :-)
Man I hate to hear Pickens got tore up..........its a real shame
===
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===I used to like to go over to Ft. McCrae and just tie up to that old
===steel piling wall and rock jetty and kick back and watch the boats
===going in and out of the pass, and do a bit of scrounging on the
===bottom, looking for old bricks which got pretty rounded over with
===water and sands.......and the occasional ballast stones from the old
===old days.. I have a heap of those old bricks just setting around here
===and there and folks often ask where I got those flat red / tan
===rounded rocks!
===
===A lot of people collect those for ornimanted walkways. :-)
I heard those old bricks originally were from Ft McCrae or Barancas
and I also heard they were just junk thrown out in the gulf and bay
over the years, but whatever they are the brick are neat and so are
those round ballast stones. I had thought I found an old cannon ball
the first time I found one, and I was really excited.........then I
was told they are ballast stones froom the old sailing ship days.
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===I see your into marine setups? Are you familiar with the JBJ Nano
===cubes? Been thinking on getting the wife one for our wedding
===anniversary, but now hear rthy are prone to just up and cracking for
===no apparaent reason. Sure hate to plunk the money down on them if its
===a problem. No big deal if its only got the water in it, but once you
===get it cycled and going it would be a disaster for sure.
===
===Haven't seen the JBJ Cubes. I used a generic PetCo tank and ripped
===everything out of the hood
===and installed 80watts of Power Compact Flouresent. 10KK and Actinic.
===Plus a Sander
===Maxi Skim Skimmer. Most Nano Cubes try to get by with Bio-Balls or
===Skilters, but
===they generally don't pull out enough for Marine Reef, really need a
===skimmer. And something
===that small really needs an AirStone style skimmer, instead of a venturi
===style like big tanks use.
===
===Plus the money you spend on Live Rock and Live Sand is nothing to sneeze
===at even with a Nano.
===
===Ahh I just Googled up the JBJ, it has Bio-Balls, but there is a place
===for a Carbon Bag to help with
===water clarity and other stuff. It would be good for low light and hearty
===corals like, Mushrooms,
===Polyps, Green Stars, maybe a Leather and other soft corals.
===
===http://www.pcola.gulf.net/~ricseyler/tank/assembly.html
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===Regards
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===Ric Seyler
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I am just leary of the glass breakage everyone is talking about. NOw I
just found a site that is called Nanotuners.com and nanocustom.com
that is stat8ing they have acrylic tanks in the works......so maybe i
will hold off a little longer before I make my mind up. The
nanocustom and also a nano forum have all kinds of mods for them, as
well as a skimmer setup made from a plastic cassette cartridge case,
bigger lights and a chiller. I like the optional lunar
lighting.....looks just like it would if you were under water and a
full moon was out.........really neat.
Regards and hope this year is not a repeat of last year.
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