If you are watching the Weather Channel and you see them mention Fish Creek, that is here. Those are thousands of fiddler crabs on the sand! It's interesting watching them discuss the Big Bend area. Apparently, it is easier to give it one big name than to name individual towns where people live. I even heard them earlier dismiss it as "mostly rural".
Another location on the map was Shired Island. A location most people have never heard of. I posted photos of that location in June. No one on the weather channel and hardly anyone else has said "Steinhatchee" because they don't know how to pronounce it! (It is pronounced steenhatchee--from a native American word for River of Man.) They will say the Taylor County/Dixie County border (which is divided by the Steinhatchee River).
There! Now you've all had a geography lesson.
Praying this nasty storm does the least amount of damage to all concerned.
Fingers crossed. If a storm heads for New England, then all the states get lumped in together and the weather is usually quite different. They are big picture folks. The result is you get calls from friends who are concerned about you only you have to say the storm in miles away in Connecticut.
Yes, they said mainly a swampy area. Very frightening to watch but necessary to stay on your toes. I'll fill up the bath tubs tomorrow morning in case of power outage. No power - no well pump. They're telling us with all the rain we'll get to expect downed trees from the winds and power outages. Just hoping none fall on my house or my car. Praying for it to seriously weaken before it hits anything!
Great capture. Can't believe all of the fiddler crabs. Hopefully Jim Cantore is not anywhere near there. Yeah, we all hope it just somehow fizzles out before it gets to the really populated areas and the least amount of damage.
@rickster549 he’s been in Cedar Key but they are making everyone leave the island. It’ll be bad for those who don’t leave. Not sure where Jim is headed. I see they had someone in Steinhatchee.
