NOTE NEW ISLAND IN MOBILE BAY................
Posted on 09/28/2022 9:59:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Must be that First of The Five Chinese Brothers who could swallow the sea.
One of my favorite books as a kid:
This has happened in areas of the Chesapeake. I had a friend who lived on Bay Hundred, and she saw the bay ‘disappeared’ and turned to mud. That would have been at least 50 years ago.
But as the hurricane passes and the winds switch direction, they will get nailed.
The winds ahead of the hurricane blowing westward are pushing the water out to sea.
As the eye passes, the wind direction will come from the west to the east and then push the water right into the coast. That’s when the problems will happen. And if it happens at high tide, the storm surge will reach higher than if it happens at low tide.
There are differences in ocean level amounting to feet visible by high resolution radar all the time. An intense low just makes that change in elevation more profound.
Interesting, isn’t it?
Indicative of a massive hurricane induced storm surge.
I was in Mobile from 94 to 98. Saw the whole bay sucked dry prior to a storm. Offshore winds combined with outgoing tide. When the tide turned, the water came back in very quickly.
Dont disagree
That’s the mechanism
But it means when the circulation overhead driving the winds moves inland, the water will return....with force, since it now has excess potential energy
Mobile bay is deeper now that they have dredged it so larger ships can come in.
There is also a large new island there since they piled up the dredgings in one place and it is a sea bird sanctuary................
NOTE NEW ISLAND IN MOBILE BAY................
Remember reading 5 Chinese Brothers as a kid. Would ha e been cool to see the fish on the ocean floor.
Hmmm...
An opportunity to find some of those guns lost in boating accidents...
Don’t stay out too long..................😉
After Hurricane at Cape Batteries they found a number of old shipwreaks.
My daughter & SIL are in Apopka; another relative in Lakeland who brought her mom, another elderly woman, a brother and BIL around 60. Daughter is essential responder RN, but not due in to work until Friday evening.
Prayers for all.
This happens every time a hurricane passes to the south of Tampa Bay. I remember when all the storms came through back in 04, we could walk under the Bayside Bridge which runs north-south in Pinellas county. It’s not a tidal wave, it’s literally wind pushing the water out. It comes back slowly as the winds die down.
Listening to the radio this morning the news report some parts of Florida have had 5 feet of storm surge and may get as much as 18 feet.
There was a fine rock band called The Five Chinese Brothers. Too bad that they never broke out.
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