Today is the anniversary of it. Some of yall that have been in Fla for a while will remember it. My parents were in Steinhatchee and the flooding was just in-describable. I have 35mm pics dad took somewhere.
I can still see boats on the bottom of the river on my depth finder. Noone really knew it was coming, so boats weren't properly stored or moored
Here is a link to radar loops of that storm. Pretty damn impressive for a weather geek like me
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tbw/?n=93storm
Yessir i remember that one it was nasty!
I remember it. We lost some really nice oaks, a fence, flooded my Uncle's place in Yankeetown......
Iluv2hunt,
Thought you might like a layman's account of that weather event. My wife has been faithful to keep a journal for many years. I asked her about 1993, she got her journal down and here is what was her entries about the weather in the panhandle on March 12th, 1993:
"hi 40's & partlly cloudy AM. then up to mid 50's in PM then it started raining but the winds extra bad." From her personal notes she wrote "News said the worst winter storm ever is coming".
On March 13, she recorded: "snowed most of the AM & a little in the PM, & the sun even tried to peak out a few times, but the wind was the worst. No power in town either."
Sunday March 14: "Still cold & snow on the trees in shady spots." also, "car barely made it through the wash at the culvert on the way to church." (apparently we didn't have a working rain gauge or ther would have been some rain fall totals)
We certainly didn't have the damage that occured along the west coast from the storm surge, but snow is a big deal anywhere in the state in my book.
Treefarmer
I remember it very well.... I was over at a friend's house in Athena (near Salem) that night. We were woke up at 12 am then 3am by his sisters and family. The power was off for awhile.
It nearly gutted our bottom floor laundry/storage room in our Steinhatchee river house. This room was built up 3-4 ft off ground level and the stand-up washer STILL had river water in it, and the water/debris line was actually higher than the dryer. We lost alot of stuff to the river but basically small stuff (fishing roads, skiis, tubes, tackle boxes, coolers, etc) compared to most all of the neighbors who houses were completely gutted as most weren't on stilts. We had a nice reinforced 50 ft long dock that it also knocked off level to the point it was nearly unusable on half of it and busted up our boat ramp also by shifting the soil underneath it.
I remember several years after than seeing random boat hulls and junk spread out around Keaton Beach Road and other places from the storm. The wrecker services pulled multiple cars, trucks, and boats out of the marsh and odd places.
