jeffies, *two* hours, but who's counting.

yo-yo, the gate is there to stop serious inflooding on a rising tide. That and
that alone. no much inflooding except for about the middle two hours of flood.

yuk-yuk, **IF** you have ever seen the canal you would have noticed -- even
you, jeffies -- that the gate is often not closed at all during flood.

why don't you go sailing sometime, jeffies. don't bother to ask me, for I will
read any posts for at least a couple weeks. you see, I'm heading ESE for a
bit.

From: "Jeff Morris"
Date: 10/23/2004 8:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

Well, aside from the fact that its a lot close to twelve hours a day than two
hours,
its exactly like I claimed it was. Jax, you were dead wrong and now you're
just
backpedaling.


"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...
"The lock gates and tide gates are constructed so that tidal action opens
them to
allow the current to set south through the canal and closes them to prevent
water from
Shinnecock Bay to flow back into Great Peconic Bay."

in other words, they are gates open for all but about two hours a days (if
that, and often not that for days at a time) only to flow from the Atlantic
to
the Peconic.