In mid-November Brett and I were having lunch near Davis Islands and decided to take a quick ride through the small island that sits off downtown Tampa. We had heard the entire island had flooded during Hurricane Helene but some of the stores and restaurants had recently reopened. We drove past the small private airport and went out to the little beach in the yacht basin. There were so many boats up on land that had gotten stranded when the water receded. It’s going to take many months to years to get them all off land.
The little docks at the boat ramp were missing.
Other than the brown grass and overturned boats, on the surface everything else looked back to normal at the yacht basin.
You can see the downtown skyline leaving the beach here.
We drove down the inside channel side to get back to Tampa and a lot of the houses still had house and yard debris piled up more than a month later.
The sky doesn’t look real! Lovely. #WordlessWednesday
Kind of surreal seeing the boats up on land. Glad the rebuild is making progress, but a long arduous task!
Such tranquil scenes with the beached and beaten boats as a reminder of not so tranquil times.
I’ve seen boats like that after storms when I lived in the Gulf Coast. I always wondered where the owners were and did they know where their boat was.
Wonderful skies!
The cloudscape is something else. Love it.
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Wonderful.