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. Worst
case is he would be up on the beach. Better than dead.
We had a little west wind at the end but most of the storm was straight out of
the south. We spent a lot of it on the front porch, hiding behind the south
wall and watching our neighbor's stuff fly by.
A 3' piece of aluminum soffit whizzing by at 90 or so is an awesome sight, a
piece buried edge on, a couple inches into a palm tree trunk is more so.