Wow Salty Sam

Demands that boats be removed today?

WTF is he smoking !?!?!

There is no easy /fast/on demand way to untangle all of that ...

I think it is just the first step in a looonnnnng process. You notify everyone and then start pulling the outer boats away working your way towards the middle/shore.

The manager and the owner apologized for the letter today and said they didn’t know what their lawyer had sent out.

Their letting us on the boats but a big problem is there is only 3 feet of water in the channel to the bridge right now . I don’t think we can even get over to the channel on the island side and it’s most likely been filled in

The incredible amount of sand and houses and cars that are in the back bay is going to make it a real treat to dredge

Going to try and get out on my boat to view back bay but no ramps are open yet.

Any more pics of how bad the big yacht is? That’s pretty crazy. Lots of boat carnage but rare to see something that large.

Anybody hear from Craig/Old School? I think he lived in Ft Myers on the water.

Actually it just got out of the yard after a year of it at the dock getting body work, than 6 months at Gulf marine ways that built a big tent to paint it in.

I conclude that their the boat that took out all the other piers as that was moored on the end of furthest north western pier and the end where they were broke off and came in and got thee other 3 piers
when the surge really rushed in from the inlet mouth after the eye passed.

There was not enough piling to hold that yacht in a strong NW blow much less a hurricane.

The shop at Salty Sams has a waterline showing 14 of surge.

95% of the boats faired well at their floating dock , some with no damage at all. But anything that was in that yachts path got ran over and sunk.
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I cannot even imagine how any of that is possible without just trashing everything in the water. Still waiting new from my Lake neighbor to find out when we can head to Bonita to start cleaning up his house. As of Friday, no power, no water, no gas and they were not allowing anyone or contractors to enter into the neighborhood on Hickory.

Do they have a Florida attorney? I know they apologized, but how can that "demand" be legal? Was the property and all boats cleared by FEMA or local authorities? I would assume homes would be cleared first then marinas and boats but could be wrong. Like the dude that stayed on his 35 foot sailboat during the storm, I am sure there are more that unfortunately, didnt make it. I can deal with the tragedy of finding a body while purposefully clearing homes and impacted areas, Im not going to deal with it because somebody wants a boat in a marina removed. They should have a little more compassion.

There are a bunch of people that stayed on 55, 65, 75 foot vessels, this dude rode it out on a 35. He was like "hold my beer bitcches". I heard that Apache adopted this guy as their new spokesman:
https://autos.yahoo.com/autos/fort-m...7uBFmhDJoLa54r

My neighbor here on the river in North Idaho just got back from a week long trip to check on his place on Marco, he’s more familiar with Ft Meyers Beach than I am. He said the surge at FMB was every bit of 12-15.
Marco got 8’. He had water in his garage but not the house.

Man, that is just wild! :eek: Good to hear most fared well. Sorry to see some really didn't!!

Thanks for the pics.