During its lifetime, the base was home to a large storage depot of mines, ready for deployment across the mouth of Tampa Bay in the event of an enemy incursion. In the island’s interior, the jungle swallows whole the support facilities for this mining operation, leaving nothing behind but...
Alabama, western Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and the western Carolinas with its gusting winds and flooding. Most of the damage came fromstorm surges of up to 10 to 15 feetalong the coastal areas of the Florida panhandle. More than 1,300 homes and 1,000 boats were destroyed...
BoatsNOAACaliforniaFloridaLouisianaThere are a number of reasons for vessel abandonment. In some cases, severe storms have a large impact. Derelict and sunken vessels are a common problem in ports around the U.S. that are subject to hurricanes and tropical storms. Vessels that are commercially ...
Gerder: “Reno was amanin Florida, before she gotchanged.” When I started to laugh and asked Gerder how he’d come to that conclusion, he was outraged by my bemusement. “How do I know?” he shouted. “Because Iknowthings.”
Just 1.1-square-miles, the town of Highland Beach, is sandwiched between Delray Beach, Florida, to the north and Boca Raton, Florida, to the south. It is residential, with a year-round population of about 4,000 that more than doubles in size during the winter. Four out of five residen...