IKE dips North sparing Florida and Royal Harbor

All we got from IKE was a small 2 foot rise in our high tide level. as it passed a couple hundred miles to the south of us. Residents of Royal Harbor closely monitored this storm as it was origionally projected to pass through southern Florida. A dip south caused by the strong Bermuda high and a lot of wind sheer kept the Hurricane on a SW track and over and through Cuba then across to the Gulf where it took a bee line for Galviston and Houston. Another miss and now we are over the half way mark in the 2008 hurricane season.

Formation of East Naples Bay Advisory board

The newly appointed East Naples Bay advisory board met today for the first time. they were updated by the engineering firm hired by the city council to do the research on the area. they elected a chairman, Ted Toybe and V. Chmn Jim Doan other members are Bonnie Mattieo, Terry Green, Harold Oldak and chip Harris (who was not present.)
The meeting was an organizational one. One public speaker (me) spoke to the new committee regarding funding and the 4 separate areas to be dredged. Royal Harbor, Oyster Bay, Golden Shores and Naples Bay. It was suggested each fund its own area. The committee asked the engineers to break out the costs by these 4 areas and to have them ready for the next meeting Oct 6.

Hurricanes and Naples Royal Harbor

Peak Hurricane season is here and with stormes lined up in the Atlanatic folks in Naples can only watch the Weather channel and wait. They are hopiong that Hannah, Ike and Josephine all blow somewhere else and not here. So far so good in NAples. FAY hit just south of here , below Marco Island, as a tropical storm and then slowly cruised up the middle of the State and dumped us with a ton of rain. Then Gustov went past on the West. It gave us a surge but nothing else.
Residents here say the main effect of the season so far has been the cancelling of the tourists arrival as each storm presents its path of uncertainty. This has also led to a slowing of the Real Estate market that looked like it was trying to start up after such a long downturn.
We shall see..

Gustov causes extra high tides

Yesterday as Gustov passed to the West of us we experienced a 3 foot rise in our normal high tide. Here is a photo down my canal in Royal Harbor. This was just after high tide and you can see the warter is over the seawall in places. No damage anywhere I know of. Some streets along the coast flooded due to full storm drains.