Update on Sanibel Island

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Update on Sanibel Island

#1 Postby Brent » Sat Aug 14, 2004 1:41 pm

MSNBC was just simulcasting pictures from the NBC affiliate who had helicopter shots of the island. It's REALLY bad. Major resort complexes heavily damaged. There's a new inlet somewhere in the middle of the area now. Only people being let on are residents(ID required).
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#2 Postby Brent » Sat Aug 14, 2004 1:53 pm

Correction: NO ACCESS being granted to Sanibel. They are showing video from Captiva now and the damage is worse.
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#3 Postby OtherHD » Sat Aug 14, 2004 1:55 pm

Captiva Island was literally split in 2...Charley created a 400 mile-wide channel. You could see fallen trees in the new channel, it was very disturbing.
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#4 Postby Brent » Sat Aug 14, 2004 1:58 pm

OtherHD wrote:Captiva Island was literally split in 2...Charley created a 400 mile-wide channel. You could see fallen trees in the new channel, it was very disturbing.


I'm watching NBC 2 out of Fort Myers right now. Very hard to watch. Such a nice resort area. :cry:
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#5 Postby Dean4Storms » Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:03 pm

OtherHD wrote:Captiva Island was literally split in 2...Charley created a 400 mile-wide channel. You could see fallen trees in the new channel, it was very disturbing.



Dang, you mean the Gulf of Mexico must now stand between both ends for it to be 400 mile wide!! LOL!! :lol:
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#6 Postby rbaker » Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:10 pm

had a similar situation back in 1921 in tpa bay area, which split an island in half, which is caledesi island and honeymoon island. And that's the way it stands today, except its now a channel for boats.
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#7 Postby OtherHD » Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:11 pm

lol Dean..hush...I could have SWORN I typed yards. Did a mod change it????????? :P
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#8 Postby Lindaloo » Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:13 pm

OtherHD wrote:lol Dean..hush...I could have SWORN I typed yards. Did a mod change it????????? :P



Not me. :D
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#9 Postby opera ghost » Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:15 pm

Wasn't there an Isabel inlet? Is this one bigger?
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#10 Postby baygirl_1 » Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:52 pm

I know Opal cut a pretty good size cut in Okaloosa Island. They managed to fill it in, but it's taken a long time for those dunes to rebuild.
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#11 Postby quickychick » Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:55 pm

Picture of (North/Upper) Captiva Island split:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040814/ids_photos_ts/r416591859.jpg
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#12 Postby PTPatrick » Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:59 pm

weighing in on storms that changes the landscape...

Camille split Ship Island in half. Georges also permantently burried a large portion of Round Island. However...nobody lives on these islands...Mississippians have got the good sense to take boats out to them for the day, rather than live on them.
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#13 Postby Agua » Sat Aug 14, 2004 3:06 pm

Hehehh... well, I'd say we've got a lot more experience with these things probably than any three contiguous counties in the nation.
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#14 Postby wolffeeder » Sat Aug 14, 2004 3:14 pm

opera ghost wrote:Wasn't there an Isabel inlet? Is this one bigger?

Yes, it did.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s2091.htm
Looks like that new inlet is on North Captiva maybe?
Hurricanes cutting new inlets through barrier islands isn't uncommon. I worked at a condo they were building in Palm Beach. Some of the people who worked there claimed that a hurricane cut an inlet right where the building now stood back in the old days, but it had filled in. Don't know for sure if that was true, but it was an exceptioonaly narrow and low part of the island.
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