Storm surge or unusually high tide?
 

Yesterday we took the TolmAn from St Marks, FL downriver and out to the range marker about 2 miles from the lighthouse and then came back in and went up river past the Hwy 98 bridge and then on upriver about 4 miles to the nest bridge where we swam for three hours.
When we came back downriver to the Hwy 98 bridge, several cars parked there were in the water up to their frames and the water was up in trees that are bot normally in the water. Downriver at St. Marks, the water was over the banks and going into the parking lot. We have not has an abnormal amount of rainfall so it wasn't the river rising from rainfall.
Being NE of the storm with the wind blowing from the south, I think it was blowing water up into Apalachee Bay where it then gets funnelled up into the river at the head of the bay.
Just like Hurricane Dennis that did not hit here but caused serious storm surge damage, there has been no prediction of storm surge in the bay

Storm surge or unusually high tide?
 

On 6/24/2012 1:48 PM, Frogwatch wrote:
Yesterday we took the TolmAn from St Marks, FL downriver and out to the range marker about 2 miles from the lighthouse and then came back in and went up river past the Hwy 98 bridge and then on upriver about 4 miles to the nest bridge where we swam for three hours.
When we came back downriver to the Hwy 98 bridge, several cars parked there were in the water up to their frames and the water was up in trees that are bot normally in the water. Downriver at St. Marks, the water was over the banks and going into the parking lot. We have not has an abnormal amount of rainfall so it wasn't the river rising from rainfall.
Being NE of the storm with the wind blowing from the south, I think it was blowing water up into Apalachee Bay where it then gets funnelled up into the river at the head of the bay.
Just like Hurricane Dennis that did not hit here but caused serious storm surge damage, there has been no prediction of storm surge in the bay

Ya, I'm in St. Andrews Bay (Panama City) and the water level has been
high for three or four days. Right now it's about 2 ft above normal. I
normally step down about 1.5 ft on to my boat, today I step up 6 inches.
Mikek

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Storm surge or unusually high tide?
 

On Jun 24, 2:59*pm, amdx wrote:

* *Ya, I'm in St. Andrews Bay (Panama City) and the water level has been
high for three or four days. Right now it's about 2 ft above normal. I
normally step down about 1.5 ft on to my boat, today I step up 6 inches.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Mikek

Hey, I made a boat related post!

Excellent! and Thank you!!!!

Storm surge or unusually high tide?
 

Frogwatch wrote:

Yesterday we took the TolmAn from St Marks, FL downriver and out to the
range marker about 2 miles from the lighthouse and then came back in and
went up river past the Hwy 98 bridge and then on upriver about 4 miles to
the nest bridge where we swam for three hours.
When we came back downriver to the Hwy 98 bridge, several cars parked
there were in the water up to their frames and the water was up in trees
that are bot normally in the water. Downriver at St. Marks, the water was
over the banks and going into the parking lot. We have not has an
abnormal amount of rainfall so it wasn't the river rising from rainfall.
Being NE of the storm with the wind blowing from the south, I think it was
blowing water up into Apalachee Bay where it then gets funnelled up into
the river at the head of the bay. Just like Hurricane Dennis that did not
hit here but caused serious storm surge damage, there has been no
prediction of storm surge in the bay

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...surge#contents

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Paul Hovnanian
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to true panic.

Storm surge or unusually high tide?
 

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:17:47 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
wrote:

Being NE of the storm with the wind blowing from the south, I think it was
blowing water up into Apalachee Bay where it then gets funnelled up into
the river at the head of the bay. Just like Hurricane Dennis that did not
hit here but caused serious storm surge damage, there has been no
prediction of storm surge in the bay

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...surge#contents

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Down here in the Ft Myers area we are in the 10% probability zone but
the tide level is already 2 ft above normal and still rising.