Posted on 09/11/2017 3:06:05 PM PDT by Morgana
Unless someone filled the entire bay with about 50 feet of fill, or a dike at the mouth of the bay, while the water was out the bay has to return and it already has.
Thanks for the info. I’ll tell my Tampa sisters that the bay is back.
“freaky”
Well, you know that old statement; It’s not nice to fool with Algore.
Thank you for that explanation! I have never lived anywhere near an ocean and never really thought about it before so I had no idea.
I should have said I have never lived near large bodies of water, since no ocean where that picture was taken on the Gulf side. I am a desert rat so don’t laugh too much.
We, at least the Floridians who live near Tampa Bay, know it’s going to be a gradual thing. As the winds don’t suck the water out all at once, the Bay just gets lower, little by little.
Same coming in after it’s been dry (I think I read the rate is an inch a minute) Well that means in an hour, it would have flowed back to 5 ft depth, and it continues that slow fill, then when the high tide shows up, that’s what determines how far over the seawalls, and how far inward it’s going to floodl.
It’s not a Tsunami effect, it’s a wind driven event, and the counter clock wise winds that circulate around a low are what does it. Depending on where the hurricane/tropical storm, is positioned to the Bay determines the amount of water sucked out.
Thank you for explaining that.
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