just thinking
Hovering, drifting slowly south and inland, still flooding Wilmington with rain, Florence is an unusual storm, and who can tell what damage will appear once the rain moves on and the flood waters withdraw.
In some book I read years ago, maybe it was The Great Tide telling of the final destruction of Saint Joseph in 1844, the new town in about the same place is named Port St. Joe -
or maybe a story I've read of old St. Andrews, Harrison, or Panama City, there's an account of a mid-1800s hurricane that hovered for days over StAndrewsBay, that drove waves ashore repeatedly, cutting back the high bluff that was facing the Bay, leaving the lower, nearly sea level stretch where W. Beach Drive is today. Apparently before that storm, the property all along the Bay, where the high up houses are now - - the Christo house, the Fannin house and the rest that stand way above the street - - that property stretched all the way out to a bluff at the Bay shore. Maybe someone else has read and remembers what book that was accounted in. Can't check The Great Tide, because years ago I gave it to one of my children as worth the read.
An active Sunday ahead. May the Lord bless and keep ...
T
http://www.starfl.com/news/20160908/deaths-angel-great-tide-of-1844
https://coneheadseightytwenty.com/blog/30e/local-history-the-lost-city-port-st-joe-fl/
In some book I read years ago, maybe it was The Great Tide telling of the final destruction of Saint Joseph in 1844, the new town in about the same place is named Port St. Joe -
or maybe a story I've read of old St. Andrews, Harrison, or Panama City, there's an account of a mid-1800s hurricane that hovered for days over StAndrewsBay, that drove waves ashore repeatedly, cutting back the high bluff that was facing the Bay, leaving the lower, nearly sea level stretch where W. Beach Drive is today. Apparently before that storm, the property all along the Bay, where the high up houses are now - - the Christo house, the Fannin house and the rest that stand way above the street - - that property stretched all the way out to a bluff at the Bay shore. Maybe someone else has read and remembers what book that was accounted in. Can't check The Great Tide, because years ago I gave it to one of my children as worth the read.
An active Sunday ahead. May the Lord bless and keep ...
T
http://www.starfl.com/news/20160908/deaths-angel-great-tide-of-1844
https://coneheadseightytwenty.com/blog/30e/local-history-the-lost-city-port-st-joe-fl/