Since early September we found three days in there to do some mid range fishing and a couple good enough to get our skiff out for at least the bay or near shore. I have in the past stomached long streaks of wind but this one goes on and on and on.
Its one thing to test the dock lines durability and see how much beating a piling can take. Its another to be bombarded every friggin day for several weeks. Then its yet another when you add cold to the equation. Finally add precipitation to the mix and it turns into shit city.
Today that scenario takes it to a new level...I braved the weather to do my job and keep workin on the boat. Had to run the engines again. They were brought to 120 degrees just yesterday and gave up 55 of them just over night. Then to cap it off I just saw white shit falling out of the sky sideways!
Its October for cryin out loud... Not January in Siberia...Friggin 38 degrees outside my window blowin, rainin and occasional flurries of dare I say it, SNOW mixed in. I still don't understand how water freezes at 32 but it can snow when warmer. Fact is it can and does.
I might have grown up here but I have long since become a Florida boy... This is silly... People were designed to migrate, not sit in this kind of stuff. I'm cuckin fold and don't even have my missus here to keep me warm!
Right now there is what you could call a "sea" at the dock. Its 46 degrees that side of the river and fluctuating between 37 and 40 on this side less than a half mile away. I'm goin to see if I can't fill a bambi order now, although this weather screams of duck heaven...
Well it has got no better out there... Maybe it isn't all that bad. Bambi never heard me sneak up or the string let go.
Even with the drag out, ride home in a warm car, and a relatively warm house though I'm on the edge of hypothermia. Watching news briefs... Earliest snow ever for this area...
Ok... I guess the weather Gods havn't had enough fun playin with the fan... I had a hard time sleepin last night. Went out for a smoke. Rain, sleet, snow and all the wind I care to think about. I knew the girl was havin another round of ass beatin in her slip. Went back across the river and she was riding ok.
Finally got to sleep and woke once during the night to a loud "crack!"... Figured a branch or something... That story will be in another thread...
Woke early. Looked out my window at the miserable conditions... Took a couple sips of my coffee and looked back out... "Fudge! Where did the street go???" The storm drains were runnin full tilt backward!
Minutes later my neighbors and my lawn were now one with the Shrewsbury River.... Remember it as a kid but been a long time since I had seen it... Tried to get to the boat to check on her but they had the town access shut down.
The tide turned and I was able to get to the boat... Water was right flush with the dock. Chop shootin through the cracks but I could see my AC/Heat pump running. I had taken the precaution of putting our splitter and shore cord up on a five gallon bucket above the dock and it had been enough.
Went to run the engines. I don't have a clue how but they had given up 70 degrees since yesterday afternoon. Nomally it stays hot in that engine room for a long time but I guess the wind was from the right direction to roar through the vents and chill the detroits back to 51 degrees... Got em lit, checked all other systems, brought to temp and shut em down. Drove back home. Man! This sucks!
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