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20% on Panama City, 20% on Apalachicola so highest prob is right on
Cape San Blas. Now, it it hits with 130+ mph winds as it has now, my
old dock at Carabelle 20 miles east of Apalach would be a disaster
being so exposed. My current dock at Shell Pt is about 80 miles east
of Apalach so may be a little better except Apalachee Bay is very
shallow and historically concentrates water into a large surge.
I always thought St Joe Peninsula needed a good cleaning of condo
madness but it may clean my boat too. If it also gives St George Is a
good condo beach cleaning it'll be worth it. There is nothing worse
than tacky side by side condos or dumb-ass yankees building monstrous
houses on MY beach. Maybe this'll run em off fer good and leave it to
us natives. See, there's a silver linin in every hurricane.

Well I'm a Yankee, or half, the other half Canadian. The Condo cleaning
will provide brief respite. In '62 we had a "NorEaster" hit the Jersey
shore. Gave the barrier island a new inlet. Cleaned out hundreds of
houses. Just made more land for the developers to resell and rebuild
on. They are now tearing down the "old" houses built after '62 to put
up newer and uglier models with more rental rooms. Remember, the real
estate agent makes money on every transaction whether or not the seller
does.

My Dad was a bayman. There were about 15 to 20 full time baymen on our
creek, maybe more for there were 3 full time clam houses. Now there are
NONE.

The deepest cynical side of me likens a good hurricane to taking a hot
bath to get rid of a case of the crabs. Temporary relief, but unless
you get the eggs the'r gonna come back.

Feeling particularlly crumudgenly this morning I guess.