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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
There is a lot of activity out still out there, but for the first big threat, Idalia did not come out way. It did however do a lot of damage and there are people in need. You might want to contribute or do whatever you can to help them.
For the Treasure Coast, there is no immediate threat, but there are some BIG tides to go along with some not so big surf. In most places there is a lot of sand that needs to be moved, but in other places that are more vulnerable for one reason or another, the tides and surf might be enough to make some good finds.
If you work shallow water, instead of waiting for low tide, you might want to go at sunrise to catch the smooth water before the wind picks up. It is easy to work smooth water, even if it is a little deeper.
There are places where hunting will be amazing after Idalia. The Big Bend and Panhandle areas, for example, and I would suspect some great hunting at select spots on the Outer Banks. Closer to home, the better spots will be scattered and scarce, yet if you have the time to explore or have been out enough this summer to be in touch with the more vulnerable areas, you might be able to find some good spots.
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| Source: Windy.com. |
For a while the ECMWF model was showing some good north winds as Idalia moved out into the ocean, but now all I'm seeing is northeast winds that will be hitting perpendicular to the Treasure Coast. See above.
I'm still looking for some slightly higher surf tomorrow. Here is the surf chart showing a slightly higher surf for tomorrow.
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| Source: SurfGuru.com. |
The most recent chart for the Fort Pierce Inlet area shows a five-to-six-foot surf for Saturday. That is typical for the various Treasure Coast areas. SurfGuru provides charts for quite a variety of areas.
In recent years we've had some good hunting in November. It can take a while do move the summer overburden.
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Maybe you've heard someone ask, "When was America ever great?" I've seen that question asked, and some people have trouble answering it. One of the reasons for that is youth and lack of education, but one answer to consider is America was great when it stopped Hitler? If you are a Marxist, Communist or Nazi, you might not think that was a good thing, but I think it was pretty great.
I recently discovered some absolutely fascinating history you should see. Just after World War II ended there was an amazing world-wide treasure hunt. The hunt was to recover the American fathers, sons, brothers and daughters that were lost on battlefields around the world. It was called the Return of the Dead Program, which resulted in the recovery of over 280,000 American bodies.
Below is a brief introduction to that program.
Congress unanimously approved the "Return of the Dead Program" in May 1946 and President Harry Truman immediately signed off on an initial $92.5 million for the work. The job fell to the American Graves Registration Service, the Transportation Corps, and thousands of civilian employees. Moving from country to country, they located graves, disinterred and formally identified remains, prepared bodies for permanent burials, and sent them home by ships and trains. It was gruesome, sober work. It also was honorable work that followed an American tradition of the return of overseas war dead that began with the Spanish-American War.
The government let families decide whether to have their loved ones brought home or buried overseas. Polling the families was followed by delays in staffing and equipment, including steel and coal strikes that waylaid casket manufacturing, meaning the first war dead did not reach American shores until October 1947. When the inaugural shipload of bodies from Europe arrived in New York, more than 400,000 people turned out to pay tribute.
"One mother offered to sell her house to pay for the return of her son’s body."US troops found my grandfather’s body in 1946 in a Viennese cemetery where German troops had buried downed airmen. American soldiers gathered his remains and flew them to a temporary US military cemetery in eastern France for burial. In 1948, the body was unearthed again, moved to Antwerp, Belgium, and hoisted aboard an Army transport ship bound for New York harbor. A train then carried the coffin to a distribution center in Ohio, where a military escort met it. Another train took the escort and casketed remains on to Indiana in January 1949, when my grandmother, mother, and other relatives gathered to see my grandfather buried for a third and final time. They had waited more than four years to say goodbye...
Here is the link for the rest of that article, but there is also a more detailed ebook listed below.Gruesome but Honorable Work | Perspectives on History | AHA (historians.org)
If you are interested in history, you will want to read the ebook, Final Disposition of World War II Dead, 1945-51.
Here is that link.
Every American should know about this part of our history. It is a part of our history that is seldom discussed.
I highly recommend it.
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If you give an answer to the question, then some idiots will ask, what about this and what about that. How can America be great when it did such and such? Then I'd ask them when they were ever great, and if they managed to come up with anything at all, I'd ask about their faults other than pride and moral blindness. They changed the standard of the question from greatness to perfection. Great Super Bowl winning teams, lost games, but that doesn't remove their greatness. Individual instances of imperfection do not cancel greatness. The original question was about a large general thing - an entire country - and a very general concept - greatness. The original question was not about perfection or individual faults.
My next response to the question would be to suggest going to the Mexican border and asking those coming into the country, why they are giving up so much to come to the United States. If the immigrants are coming to such a flawed country, you would do them a favor by sending them somewhere better.
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I do hope you'll read the very enlightening #5 - Final disposition of World War II dead, 1945-51 ... v.2:4. - Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library.
Idalia is moving away from the Treasure Coast but with all the other activity in the Atlantic, you won't want to miss any big developments. In recent years, October and November have produced some great hunting.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net