----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Lloyd" <dougl_at_islandnet.com> > Larry, I was following the hurricane with my daughter ... >Our local weather guru figured it would fizzle in the Gulf > from cooler water to the north and dryer air near the coast, and he was > correct. He was correct indeed, and may have had it figgered better than did the folk at the National Hurricane Center in Miami who predicted worse than we got right up until an hour or so before landfall. The gulf water is not normally much cooler near the coast but, may have been last week because of the passage of Tropical Storm Isidore the week prior. The predicted 10 - 20 foot storm surge turned out to be 6 - 10 ft. -still high enough to flood a lot of houses on the roads to Vermilion and Cote Blanche Bays. The only high land (hence, only roads) in extreme south Louisiana is alongside the rivers and bayous where silt dropped out of the flood water after overflow. That and the "islands" of land that cover bulging salt domes in the marsh (like Avery Island where Tabasco sauce is made). > How's the planing for your next adventure going? Didn't you have > something going on with Arthur? The La Costa Del Golfo trip takes off February '03. (We're leaving then so as to avoid next year's hurricane season.) This is a time of a huge amount of planning, letter writing, permission acquisition and so forth. I've healed up about as well as I'm gonna, I reckon. It's been a real gift and blessing this getting better, and I can paddle very nearly as well as ever I could. Thanks for asking. Larry Koenig www.lacostadelgolfo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 11 2002 - 09:17:30 PDT
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