? for those that were hit by Katrina and Rita

[artist]

Do you know if the marinas allow everyone to keep their boats in dock even though a hurricane is coming? I know here in WPB FL that alot of them require you to remove them for certain cats. coming this way - that is why I am asking. Seems such waste to see all those boats in the pics that could have been saved had they been moved. I am talking about the marinas in the intercoastal here.

[Lindaloo]

Local officials do not demand that you remove your boats. Most do though but if left in the harbor they tie them off.

[Ixolib]

Biloxi makes everyone leave as soon as a TS warning is put in place. For Katrina, most of the boats left in plenty of time, by many of them faired no better in the bayous and inlets up the rivers and industrial canal. The huge surge was simply more than they were prepared to deal with...

[artist]

thanks for the replies.

[beachbum_al]

Well the Fairhope Yacht Club in Fairhope didn't require members to move their boats. And lets see thanks Katrina's storm surge in Mobile Bay there is no longer a yacht club and many of the boats are total. Of course this is minor compare to what many people went through.

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=73149

Just a few pictures of what happen around this area.

[artist]

thanks for posting beachbum_al - those are incredible!l