Note: this topic is from 8/30/2005. Thanks xzins.
Posted on 08/30/2005 6:41:24 PM PDT by xzins
The links in the article won't work. Go to the actual page if you want to see the path of each 19th & 20th century hurricane.
Thank you very much for posting this. I shall be most interested to read this history. I live in Panama City Beach so I look forward to see what has happened in the past.
Bookmark for later.
Google something called "Paleotempestology"..it's going back before written records and directly examining the marshes and beaches, and tree rings for evidence of storm surges and hurricanes...
Thank you. I found other lists of colonial era hurricanes, but they were east coast. Eglin, I think, is near Biloxi, so their list was most relevant to this area, at least.
I'll look it up. I imagine we'll find that hurricanes have been around a long time.
I remembered reading all kinds of reports of Spanish Galleons sunk by terrible storms. Those would be interesting records if they exist.
It looks like there's an average of about 2 years between hurricanes in this area with a range of about 2-3 per year up to a 4-5 year gap between hurricanes.
Nice work finding this. Now some enterprising FReeper needs to match this up against the Bush family geneology. I'll bet dollars to donuts we'll find a direct correlation between the actions of W's ancestors and these storms.
Yes, I remember some geneologist claiming the Bush family's connection to British royalty. Since all those royals interbred whenever they could, it's certain they were related to the Spanish and French crowns. This area was under the Spanish and French before the Americans, and these leaders were blood related to the Bush family, so, imso facto, all of the hurricanes are the fault of the Bushes.
Does this work for you?
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Keesler AFB is near Biloxi, Eglin is near Ft. Walton Beach.
Thank you. I should have known that.
They do. I attended a lecture last spring on the marine archaeological excavation of a big galleon from the 1559 storm in Pensacola Bay (Escambia Bay, actually -- the western, outer part of the bay). She turned out to be the Urca, Don Tristan's flagship. The strength of the storm is attested by the fact that the waves were so big that the bottom of the bay was occasionally exposed in the troughs of the waves as they drove in across the bar, slamming Urca down on the bar over and over until her bottom stove in and her back broke. In the wreck, the Admiral was killed -- the excavators found one of his personal effects in the debris field.
The ship was salved by the survivors of the expedition (who had one sound ship left after the storm), who needed the colonization gear to survive. They were relieved after several months.
Also found in the wreck were crossbow bolt-heads. Urca was one of the last galleons to carry crossbows; they were removed from service soon afterwarda in favor of firearms. Also found, in her bilge, were the remains of ship rats and smoky brown cockroaches, both part of the Columbian Exchange: the roaches are native to Africa and arrived in Spanish ships. The remains from Urca are now the earliest such documentation of this pest in the New World. A moment of levity was provided in the lecture when the lecturer recalled the otherworldly look that came over the distinguished Atlanta entomologist's face when he realized what he had -- publishable data!
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Thank you. That is great history.
Is there a link?
If you remember anything else, please share it. That was excellent stuff.
"LG"
Note: this topic is from 8/30/2005. Thanks xzins.
Eglin is the largest military base in the whole world.
The 30,000 pound (Mother Of All Bombs) MOAB was tested there and only those doing the testing heard the explosion.
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