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Post by RickB on Sept 30, 2022 7:40:41 GMT -5
Welfare check on RickB RickBHope you didn't float away or get blown away Rick. Atlanta got nothing but intensely dry wind too add to a fall drought. Thanks for checking on us. Right now the rain is beginning to get heavier and wind a little gusty at times. This is going to increase as the day and night come. Heard a transformer blow nearby about a half hour ago. We should be ok here with just tropical force winds here in Columbia. From what I can see from all the projections the eye will come inland early afternoon and it looks like it will be close to a dead hit around McClellanville and the South Santee river area along our coast. This is an area that Hugo hit hard back in 1989 and also the area that we go camping and crabbing two weeks out of each month from April through August. This area has many barrier islands and old plantation rice fields. They usually flood the rice fields prior to one of these storms hitting as this puts a lot of mass against the force of the hurricane. Flooding rice fields along the coast means that many crabs have just been stocked into them. Commercial guys can not put crab traps into them so the crabs in there get bigger. RickB likes to catch those large crabs and can do so in permitted areas in a non-commercial way next season. PS. fossil hunting will pick up around Edisto Beach this fall and winter. I will begin camping there as it gets cooler 8:10 am
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Post by fernwood on Sept 30, 2022 8:07:13 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Sept 30, 2022 8:59:21 GMT -5
I see that southerly flowing wind band ripping across you along with a bunch of moisture. Some of those wind bands can get whipped up to serious continuous gusts. Hoping you don't lose power. Hugo sure lived up to its name, that was a giant of a storm. The timber industry suffered great losses when those plantation pines got laid down well inland. It hit perpendicular to the shore which was unusual for a Carolina coast impact. It hit forests that never experienced high wind and laid them down easily. Killed 49. One of those that stayed hurricane force deep inland. I would guess the large breeder crabs would come up the Santee. The commercial guys probably wear them out in the river. But they can't trap in the rice fields, interesting sanctuary. The commercial guys could work Lake George. The big breeder blue crabs would come 125 miles up the St John's and spread out in the giant lake and made it difficult for the commercial guys to catch them all. Crabs that were up to 27 inches claw tip to claw tip spread, a one crab meal ! The non-commercial folks were allowed to put X amount of(3 to 5) traps in shallower water where many large crabs roamed. During November the crabs would go into the warmer springs and moult, they could be caught by chicken-neck-on-string and dip net only - no shell to wrestle with. Stay safe and enjoy the gumbeaux and low country boil. Be on the lookout for sharks teeth/fossils/points when waters reside ! Hurricane Hugo - September 21-22, 1989 Summary Hurricane Hugo was a Cape Verde hurricane that became a Category 5 (on the Saffir-Simpson Scale) storm in the Atlantic, then raked the northeast Caribbean as a Category 4 storm before turning northwest between an upper-level high pressure system to the north and upper-level low pressure system to the south. Hugo made landfall just north of Charleston, SC at Sullivan's Island around midnight September 22, 1989 as a Category 4 storm with estimated maximum sustained winds of 135-140 mph and a minimum central pressure of 27.58 inches Hg (934 mb). Hugo produced tremendous wind and storm surge damage along the coast as well as significant wind damage well inland with hurricane force wind gusts all the way into western North Carolina. In fact, Hugo produced the highest storm tide heights ever recorded along the U.S. East Coast. At the time, Hurricane Hugo was the strongest storm to strike the United States in the previous 20-year period. The hurricane was also the nation's costliest in terms of monetary losses with approximately $7 billion in damage. It is estimated that there were 49 deaths directly related to the storm, 26 of which occurred in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 2, 2022 11:52:33 GMT -5
RickB Newscasts showed S Carolina getting hit hard. Is all ok with you ? Did Ian go back to a cat 1 when it skipped across the the ocean ? Must have judging from the high water at the SC coast. Do fossil hunters find on the beach or the banks of the Santee ? I know they dive the Santee. I have seen videos of construction excavations in wet places(near the Santee I believe) where people were collecting those huge shark's teeth by the bucket, who could be so fortunate !
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Post by RickB on Oct 2, 2022 13:41:44 GMT -5
RickB Newscasts showed S Carolina getting hit hard. Is all ok with you ? Did Ian go back to a cat 1 when it skipped across the the ocean ? Must have judging from the high water at the SC coast. Do fossil hunters find on the beach or the banks of the Santee ? I know they dive the Santee. I have seen videos of construction excavations in wet places(near the Santee I believe) where people were collecting those huge shark's teeth by the bucket, who could be so fortunate ! James, we didn't have it as bad here as the water/wave action they got along our coast. I'm still having trouble finding info and photos of the areas I go to down there. I know that two of the state parks around the Myrtle Beach area are closed, some fishing piers were torn down or damaged in the same area. Storm made land on coast with 85 mph winds. Divers are the ones around here that find shark teeth and fossils in the bays and rivers. Haven't heard what they find in the Santee River. Seems like the Cooper River and the Edisto River are the main ones. Divers have to feel around the bottom for them as visibility is very bad making lights ineffective. I know that occasionally construction sites turn up shark teeth. We camp a lot at Edisto Beach State Park for weeks at a time and I pick teeth up on occasion there. I have found smaller Meg teeth before and only have one large one that's 4 1/2" long. Need a boat to hunt the river banks. This lady was looking for shark teeth in the Stono River in Charleston SC area. Plenty of YouTube videos with finds like this. Beach finds are rare, river finds the best. Nice video PS. Recently my metal detecting friends were searching an old farm in the Charleston area and one of the guys found a horde of Meg teeth that an early fossil hunter had stashed in his home. Forget the total number but I'm sure I heard a number a little under 200. A post colonial era shark tooth collector. jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2022 13:03:52 GMT -5
Good news for you. The coast did not look so good. surprised that thing spun back up to 85 mph, weather guy didn't think it would.
Wow, to find an old stash of collected sharks teeth is a wild find. And so many. I want you to detect up a mason jar full or gold eagles ! One has to wonder what the colonials were thinking about fossil(?) teeth or how present day teeth are found inland. Maybe they knew about fossils. That is a load of teeth. I'm confused, it is the Cooper and the Edisto where they find so many. Charleston has them too, hmm. Well, many don't know but coral can be found in most small creeks in north central Florida at 80 to 100 feet elevation. Not just Suwannee and Withlacoochee.. Must be an expansive vein, shark's teeth may occur in an expansive vein too ! Divers are the ones that score so well, a Youtube video showed a couple of guys finding them in a wide damp excavation go figure. and scoring big.
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Post by RickB on Oct 3, 2022 13:12:11 GMT -5
Good news for you. The coast did not look so good. surprised that thing spun back up to 85 mph, weather guy didn't think it would. Wow, to find an old stash of collected sharks teeth is a wild find. And so many. I want you to detect up a mason jar full or gold eagles ! One has to wonder what the colonials were thinking about fossil(?) teeth or how present day teeth are found inland. Maybe they knew about fossils. That is a load of teeth. I'm confused, it is the Cooper and the Edisto where they find so many. Charleston has them too, hmm. Well, many don't know but coral can be found in most small creeks in north central Florida at 80 to 100 feet elevation. Not just Suwannee and Withlacoochee.. Must be an expansive vein, shark's teeth may occur in an expansive vein too ! Divers are the ones that score so well, a Youtube video showed a couple of guys finding them in a wide damp excavation go figure. and scoring big. The guys and I have breakfast at Shoney's every Tuesday. I plan on getting more info on the Meg tooth horde to get the total number found. Teeth can be found in most of those coastal rivers. The Cooper River ends in Charleston SC and the Edisto River is about 20 miles south of that. Many people with boats hit the gravel bars in the Edisto River East of I-95 to the coast to find shark teeth. They put the boats in at Colleton State Park and check as they drift toward the coast.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 3, 2022 14:23:49 GMT -5
RickB Well you guys have a cool gig. Metal detecting and arrowhead hunting works great with a group to increase finds. Something says It will be a challenge to find another horde of sharks teeth like that. A friend bought a house near me and found a pile of quite large nautilus fossils the past owner had left behind. Wishing Colleton Park was closer, that would be an fine trip.
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Post by RickB on Oct 3, 2022 19:14:06 GMT -5
jamesp here's a nice video of shark teeth hunting in the Edisto River in SC. The Edisto is the longest free flowing black water river in the United States.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 4, 2022 0:47:24 GMT -5
jamesp here's a nice video of shark teeth hunting in the Edisto River in SC. The Edisto is the longest free flowing black water river in the United States. They have it dialed in Rick. Lots of Piedmont quartz mixed in. The Edisto must feed from way up in the Piedmont. It is rare to find crystalline quartz in peninsular Florida. The St John's is the big Florida river but it flows north. They trip out if they find a quartz point. Little quartz there. Those are some well preserved teeth.
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Post by RickB on Oct 4, 2022 9:28:39 GMT -5
jamesp I got a more accurate story from one of the bottle digging/metal detecting guys. He called up the guy that found the Meg teeth this morning. They had permission to dig the site of an old home from the 1700's in the Charleston SC area. The number of teeth was a lot less than 200, turned out he found all 52 of them along with old bottles in the home's old privy. Maybe the guy's wife was cleaning out her husbands old stuff, no telling why they were put in a privy except to get rid of them. Your threads seem to morph a lot and I helped twist this one up a little bit. We now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 4, 2022 10:20:15 GMT -5
Charleston is an old town. What a great opportunity to metal detect RickB. Most of my family is from Fernandina Beach and St Augustine, similar in age. Both old town sections well built over, no chance of detecting there. 52 Megalodon teeth in the privy ! Yep, that sounds like an angry wife lol. That was cold blooded. The only news left on Ian is totally depressing. Talk about the perfect storm(in a negative way) it could not have picked a worse orientation and location to make a landfall considering the bay and the urbanization. Had that thing gone out in the middle of the gulf no telling how powerful it could have gotten.
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