Hurricane Michael: Boots on the Ground in the Aftermath – by Capt. Brian P. Whiddon

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Our captain, Brian Whiddon, shares his first-hand account of volunteering at Ground Zero of Hurricane Michael. 


Sitting on my boat last week, observing the rising waters and intense wind, I knew that Hurricane Michael was a monster. It was several hundred miles from St. Petersburg yet we were getting 30 and 40 MPH gusts and the water in the marina had risen over and above the finger docks. The satellite images showed a compact, almost symmetrical cyclone slowly closing on the Florida panhandle. Monitoring the newscasts, I heard that the storm was no longer a Category 2, but a Cat 3. Then, it wasn’t a Cat 3, but a Cat 4!!

Read the rest here:

PART I

PART II

NEXT: My First (and certainly not my last) Falling Off the Boat Accident! (Includes really gross pictures…)

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Angela Hoy is a publisher, a blogger, and the author of 19 books. She lived on dirt her entire life before her family gave away almost everything they owned, and moved onto a 52-foot Irwin Center Cockpit Ketch. They all live, work, and play on board full-time.

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