|
Hurricanes
Jun 21, 2024 18:25:43 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by stc1993 on Jun 21, 2024 18:25:43 GMT -5
A couple from PA with their 6 children were on vacation in Martin Co. They were caught in a rip current and both drowned.
Feel sorry for the children. They must of been older kids he was 52 and she was in her mid 40s.
Seems like a lot of people drown from them or you hear of it more often.
|
|
|
Hurricanes
Jun 21, 2024 18:28:20 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by tonyroma on Jun 21, 2024 18:28:20 GMT -5
Heard that today, terrible story, ocean don’t play.
|
|
|
Post by TRTerror on Jun 21, 2024 18:56:51 GMT -5
Basic Seaman ship says swim parallel to the shore in a rip current. Lots of folks don't seem to know that. I was raised next to the Ocean and it was a pretty basic rule. Guess they don't teach that anymore...Sad
|
|
|
Hurricanes
Jun 21, 2024 19:12:10 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by swampdog on Jun 21, 2024 19:12:10 GMT -5
TRT - I was explaining to my family that very thing while on the beach this morning. You go with the flow then swim parallel to the beach and head in to land.
|
|
|
Post by bullfrog on Jun 21, 2024 19:44:36 GMT -5
To the extent that I can look and some indirect facts and get a “gut feeling” for it, I’d say yeah they’ve always come and gone in cycles. I think this because:
1. Crackers were sticklers about factoring hurricanes into their selection for a homestead. I was raised by my grandparents of the Depression/WWII generation. I constantly heard them criticize new home developments based upon the sites’ penchant to flood during heavy hurricane cycles. They presumed decades of high water from lots of storms were followed by decades of dry from less storm activity. They considered it fact that it was so. They got that idea from somewhere.
2. The ecology of Florida seems to depend on the hurricane cycle. Lakes and wetlands fill up, last many years, go dry and become prairie, then fill up again and the cycle repeats. Some kinds of animals lay dormant directly during the dry years and with other kinds their eggs do so until heavy rains come. Animals can sense the storms coming days out and make to high ground and do a flurry of emergency feeding before hand. Florida’s aquifer is a big sponge that is replenish by the storms. Everything about natural Florida and hurricanes seems to go together like peanut butter and jelly. Hurricanes are not aberrations in an ecological sense. They can’t be. There’s been too much natural selection and adaptation going on relating to them.
|
|
|
Post by restlessnative on Jun 21, 2024 19:50:24 GMT -5
back in the 'old days' the coasts weren't lined with houses 10 feet from the ocean. Umm, where do you live again?? What kind of point are you trying to make?
|
|
|
Post by restlessnative on Jun 21, 2024 19:53:17 GMT -5
Hurricanes are like hoes, they come (pun intended) and they go. Some are fun and playful, some fuck your world up for a little while. Either way life goes on and more will be at your doorstep in the future. I just ride em out.
|
|
|
Hurricanes
Jun 21, 2024 21:11:34 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by whitebacon on Jun 21, 2024 21:11:34 GMT -5
Basic Seaman ship says swim parallel to the shore in a rip current. Lots of folks don't seem to know that. I was raised next to the Ocean and it was a pretty basic rule. Guess they don't teach that anymore...Sad I'm with you on this. I was more or less raised on the beach. We were taught from a young age to swim parallel to the beach if we got caught in a rip current. That being said, the entire north and south shorelines of Boca Grande Pass, are lined with public beach. We swam well north or well south of the dangerous currents, which could well exceed 3-5k knots or any natural tide. I spent years on those beaches and in the pass fishing, and I'm telling you an Olympic swimmer couldn't buck the normal currents in the pass, even on the beaches where we knew not to go. From the stories I read about the deaths in Martin County, the warning signs were well marked and plentiful this week regarding the dangerous rip tides. Very sad for the kids, but I'm of the feeling that the idiot parents bear 100% of the blame for being stupid.
|
|
|
Post by stc1993 on Jun 21, 2024 21:53:33 GMT -5
Being from PA they probably don't even know what a rip current is. What I think.
|
|
|
Post by tonyroma on Jun 21, 2024 21:59:01 GMT -5
I’ve witnessed 2 people drown. 14 years old, walking to a buddies house. 2 younger girls come running out to the road clearly in distress. We ask them what was wrong and they just keep on walking. We get to my buddies house on the little neighborhood lake and he’s swimming back towards where we had just been a minute ago.
Turned out 4 kids were on a pool raft. Little girl fell off and couldn’t swim. When we seen our buddy swimming we followed and started looking for her. I will never forget how deep that little trailer park lake was. The only way you could get to the bottom was to go down feet first, and let all the air out of your lunges. Then once you hit bottom it was just muck.
3 of us did that over and over until the police and scuba team showed up. Felt like an eternity but was probably 30-40 minutes. We got out when the scuba team showed up. It took them over an hour to find her. They did CPR on that little girl. But it was pointless.
Haven’t thought about that in a long time. I don’t fear the water but I respect the shit out of it. Both my kids were swimming as infants. My daughter is a lifeguard and teaches little kids to swim.
|
|
|
Post by stc1993 on Jun 23, 2024 5:16:11 GMT -5
Flooding in Miami/Dade last week. The FWC caught tarpon swimming down 60th st and Alton Rd. Said they got them back in their habitat. I'd of like to seen that.
|
|
|
Post by johngalt on Jun 24, 2024 5:40:28 GMT -5
Since Friday six have drowned here in Bay county.
|
|
|
Post by ferris1248 on Jun 24, 2024 5:52:35 GMT -5
People just don't understand that you can't fight the water and win. The water is inexhaustible.
What's the saying? "Go with the flow"?
|
|