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(Greg) wrote in message ...
There was a lot of eastbound traffic on the Okeechobee
Waterway on Thursday afternoon, and not everyone made it past the
first lock before they closed.

Did you see the guy in the sail boat who was trapped outside the Sanibel
bridge? He didn't have an engine so he wasn't willing to try getting around
Boca Grand pass and down the inside to the river. Last I heard his boat was
smashed on the bridge and he was missing. If he had gone south and holed up in
New Pass or even the cove in Big Carlos he probably would have been fine.
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No, we started out from our house which is about 10 miles upriver from
the Sanibel bridge. Too bad about the guy and boat. There was
another sailboat sunk by the storm about 1/2 mile north of the Cape
Coral bridge. This was a boat that had been anchored there for a few
weeks and had someone living aboard. No idea what happened to them
but it couldn't have been good if they were onboard during the
hurricane.