Hurricane Matthew

[spuwho]

I made a last minute decision to spend a few days in New Orleans. I-10 West was a mess yesterday. It took me around 4 hours to get to Tallahassee. Felt like half of that time was spent going around I-10 backups between I-295 and Baker County.

I knew I would find you somewhere....

[jaxjaguar]

After this storm passes, what kind of infrastructure improvements can be made to prevent the ocean from breaching the dunes again? Will the coastline be permanently lost to the receded point or are we allowed to rebuild the dunes in their former location?

[Kerry]

After this storm passes, what kind of infrastructure improvements can be made to prevent the ocean from breaching the dunes again? Will the coastline be permanently lost to the receded point or are we allowed to rebuild the dunes in their former location?

Probably a good topic for its own thread because it is going result in lots of opinions that will be controversial.  I know mine will be.

[blfair]

Channel 4 was at the park by river rd & Landon this morning - looks like enough water to go inside cars parked on the street.

[ProjectMaximus]

^Yikes!

[Houseboat Mike]

So as you may know I used to live on a houseboat (AKA houseboat Mike) but sold it and moved onto a sailboat. Glad I did. Stopped by the old marina (Fleming Island Marina) and the houseboat beat the hell out of the dock. New boat is at Ortega River Marina, and we didn't even lose power. Hope everyone made it through.

[blfair]

Photos from around San Marco this morning:

http://imgur.com/a/CissB

[ProjectMaximus]

Thanks blfair!

[KenFSU]

Comcast still down for anyone else?

[Spitfire]

This is the Mandarin County Dock near the Mandarin Historical Society. I took the left picture in June 2015. The right one was taken by the admin of the JaxWaterways page on FB yesterday morning, I do believe.

[Jax-Nole]

The storm cut a new inlet into the beach in southern St John's County about halfway between Marineland and the Matanzas Inlet. Luckily it formed in an area without houses because as you can see in the GIF, there are houses at the top and bottom of the images. Just goes to show how powerful Mother Nature is.

P.S., If you all want, I can edit this post to just the two images if the GIF is annoying.

[Adam White]

The storm cut a new inlet into the beach in southern St John's County about halfway between Marineland and the Matanzas Inlet. Luckily it formed in an area without houses because as you can see in the GIF, there are houses at the top and bottom of the images. Just goes to show how powerful Mother Nature is.

P.S., If you all want, I can edit this post to just the two images if the GIF is annoying.

Wow! Kind of makes we wonder what those houses were doing there in the first place, if I'm honest.

[acme54321]

The storm cut a new inlet into the beach in southern St John's County about halfway between Marineland and the Matanzas Inlet. Luckily it formed in an area without houses because as you can see in the GIF, there are houses at the top and bottom of the images. Just goes to show how powerful Mother Nature is.

P.S., If you all want, I can edit this post to just the two images if the GIF is annoying.

That spot got blown open by another storm a while back and filled the river with sand.  There is a project in the works to armor that section of beach and pump the sand back out of the riverto prevent it from happening again.

[Sonic101]

There are 5 houses north of that new break that are cut off from the road now. That's a section of Old A1A that the county abandoned and doesn't maintain anymore since Hurricane Dora. There are some remnants on the beach there of and old house and the road goes underneath one of the houses.

[acme54321]

Yeah just looked at the exact spot on google maps.  The old break was just north of there.  Sucks to be those people.  Has it closed up yet?