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Category: Beach Renourishment
September 12, 2008
We’re All Texans Tonight
Living in a coastal community is 99% bliss, but when hurricanes threaten life gets challenging. We on the Cape have had some inconveniences from Ike but no life threatening problems. I’ve been listening on the internet tonight to KTRH from Houston where the storm is bearing down and as a ...
September 12, 2008
Local Traffic Being Allowed Through Stumphole
7:00 p.m. UPDATE – We have a fluid situation here, absolutely no pun intended. I just had a call from Paula Pickett, Executive Director of the Gulf County Tourist Development Council, who drove out to the Cape within the hour, and was told the road is such that if it’s ...
September 12, 2008
Stumphole Closed Again This Morning
7:40 a.m. – The Sheriff has re-closed Stumphole this morning as waves continue to break over the rocks. High tide is at 8:30 and there is hope they can reopen Cape San Blas Road to traffic after the tide subsides later on this morning. I will let you know as ...
September 11, 2008
Ike Closes Stumphole
3 p.m. Update from Gulf County Emergency Management: Gulf County remains under a High Surf Advisory and a Coastal Flood Advisory. These conditions will continue to lead to hazardous rip currents as well as dangerously high surf along Gulf County’s beaches. These conditions will be life threatening to anyone entering ...
September 6, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – Aug. 29 – Sept. 5, 2008
Luckily it’s a lot quieter around here than it was last week, which is a good thing since this is the last weekend of scallop season for 2008, with Wednesday, the 10th, being the final day, so if you’re wanting to stock your freezer you need to get moving. Lots ...
September 4, 2008
Stumphole Badly Battered
Although the county was able to quickly reopen Cape San Blas Road to traffic again by late Monday afternoon after closing it at 10 a.m., the rocks at Stumphole took quite a thumping and FDOT will hopefully make repairs quickly. I saw three of their crew members out yesterday with ...
September 2, 2008
Back To Normal
Sorry, kids – you’re going back to school today. Cape San Blas Road is re-opened and once again traffic is passing through Stumphole. Overall I think the beach looks good, admittedly there was ersosion but it could have been much, much, worse. Here’s the latest update from the beach restoration ...
September 1, 2008
Gustav Is a Big Boy
I have to admit being several hundred miles from New Orleans we weren’t expecting all that much action from Gustav, but the wind has been blowing hard and steady since late Friday afternoon and waves continue to pound away at our beaches even at mid-day on Labor Day. The combination ...
August 23, 2008
Fay Is First Real Test for Our Beach Renourishment Program
Not much change since this morning in the weather, still blustery with occasional gusts and brief periodic rainshowers, but the heavy bands still seem to be to the east of us, over around Wakulla and stretching out into the gulf south of St. George Island. With the center of the ...
August 23, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – August 16-22, 2008
Fay has dominated the scene for more than a week now as she’s made her agonizingly slow and meandering path to the panhandle. We’re all just ready for her to be gone. As I’m writing this on Saturday morning we’ve only had about 3 inches of rain, but the heavy ...
August 23, 2008
A Quiet Morning . . . So Far
I drove around the Cape this morning and other than some deck chairs and small items blown around there was little evidence of our being in the midst of a tropical storm. Of course the winds so far have been blowing off shore and we’re in the eye of the ...
August 16, 2008
Cape San Blas Real Estate Week In Review – August 9-15, 2008
It’s been a rainy, soggy week along the Forgotten Coast, and with Miss Fay cruising through the Caribean this morning it looks as if we’re in for yet another rainy week. The rain didn’t dampen interest in people looking for coastal real estate, though, as we have three new contracts, ...