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To: AbolishCSEU
This makes me have awesome respect for the early sea faring people who had to sail the high seas and had no way of predicting storms like this one.

They used to call those storms a tempest.

I can't imagine sailing into one of those in a pre 20th Century ship. There were a lot of shipwrecks.

1,414 posted on 09/28/2022 9:00:58 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,116,490 active users on Truth Social)
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To: SamAdams76

Hurricane Michael washed up ships on Dog Island that went down in the 1899 hurricane:

https://www.floridasforgottencoast.com/2019/04/hurricane-michael-unearthed-historical-treasures-on-floridas-forgotten-coast/


1,435 posted on 09/28/2022 9:16:22 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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