Can you imagine a wind at 225 MPH?

[Honest Samuel]

Many treasure hunters looking forward to storms so they can hit the beaches with their mental detectors.

 

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[smokeythecat]

If it goes off the Delaware coast, even half close, I'll go but as you all know I do not go in the water. I don't take chances with storms. Too many close calls when I haven't been challenging the weather!

 

[Pick_axe]

One reason I won't move to Florida. New Mexico, huh?

Yeah. You know, cleaner than the other Mexico.

 

[A2coins]

Now imagine the idiot on a sailboat who will be a meteorite lol

 

[Duckshot]

If it goes off the Delaware coast, even half close, I'll go but as you all know I do not go in the water. I don't take chances with storms. Too many close calls when I haven't been challenging the weather!

I have not gone swimming on purpose in over a decade.

 

[Toecutter]

The new Bugatti can hit 300mph...

 

[smokeythecat]

I went to a bay beach today. I'll post after the mandatory happy nap! I was able to detect FOUR HOURS which is the most I've been able to do all year.

This is in Maryland. The storm has clouds overhead, down the bay where I was the waves had taken off a foot of sand, exposed some rocks where I got a boat load of sinkers.

I went to a lesser used part of the beach and got some coin spills and more 14k gold. Will post later. Nap time. I can't hardly move. STAY SAFE.

At no time was I in any kind of danger. Coast guard was patrolling and police were parked in two parking lots. Very few people there. Winds 20 mph out of the northeast.

 

[TheRingFinder]

Glad I'm on the West coast, far away from Dorian (and Trump, who said Dorian will not impact Alabama).

Treasure hunters are usually pretty intelligent people with common sense, so most are Trump supporters - Not smart to offend the community.

 

[smokeythecat]

Trump was right. Alabama was not impacted. Those first few days one of the projections had it crossing Florida and going into the Gulf, were Alabama would have been impacted to some extent.

 

[Billieg]

Well, it came and went and I'm 30 miles from the beach. We got no rain and little wind. I guess we dodged a bullet. Was going to go out to the beach hunting but the news showed a lot of guys swinging on the beach. It was funny, the news gal was on the beach saying how bad it was and every 30 seconds or so a guy swinging a detector walked by.

 

[smokeythecat]

Yeah, the news folks never lie or exaggerate. Don't let other people already being there stop you. One wave can make a difference and some of the guys don't know which end of the machine goes near the ground.

 

[Billieg]

Yeah, the news folks never lie or exaggerate. Don't let other people already being there stop you. One wave can make a difference and some of the guys don't know which end of the machine goes near the ground.

So.... who are you talking about

 

[smokeythecat]

Especially one guy I saw last weekend at a beach. Swinging the loop a good 8" above the ground, and moving like a bat out of perdition!

I have seen some folks almost run along a beach, with the idea they will find something! I've seen this way more than one time.

 

[Blak bart]

Gonna be worse up your way smokey than it was for us down here. Hang on and fire up the sump pump !!

 

[smokeythecat]

I'm 100 miles inland. Was semi bright and sunny today. Beach was windy. New thread coming in 5, 4, 3, 2, ...

 

[Megalodon]

Well, it came and went and I'm 30 miles from the beach. We got no rain and little wind. I guess we dodged a bullet. Was going to go out to the beach hunting but the news showed a lot of guys swinging on the beach. It was funny, the news gal was on the beach saying how bad it was and every 30 seconds or so a guy swinging a detector walked by.

In that case, it would have been a good story, IMO, to go off-script and cover the TH'ers on the beach - who they were, what they were doing, and why, with a little history lesson. But the reporters don't veer from the script. I've been interviewed a few times in the past about species we were restoring, and in one case, there was a massive fish kill that could have made a good story that day - but the fish kill "was not in the script" - the producer's exact words.

 

[Megalodon]

I'm 100 miles inland. Was semi bright and sunny today. Beach was windy. New thread coming in 5, 4, 3, 2, ...

I'm about 100 miles south of you, on the Bay, and closer to the Atlantic coast, so technically closer to the winds, but conditions are looking marginal to me. A good nor'easter can be better at Coin Beach than many hurricanes. But on the other hand do we wait for the "Perfect Storm" for Coin Beach, or go with less perfect beach conditions?

Getting turned away from Coin Beach 5 consecutive days after a tropical storm in the early 90's affected me and has kept me away from there.

 

[smokeythecat]

I will check road closures on the net but will probably go tomorrow late or crack of dawn Saturday. It is a gamble, but there are a couple other beaches that probably won't have restrictions.

 

[Mudflap]

World Record Wind. For nearly sixty-two years, Mount Washington, New Hampshire held the world record for the fastest wind gust ever recorded on the surface of the Earth: 231 miles per hour, recorded April 12, 1934 by Mount Washington Observatory staff.

Then>> On April 10, 1996, the Earth's strongest surface wind, not including tornadoes, was measured, but almost 14 years would pass until it became an official world record. Tropical Cyclone Olivia bore down on tiny Barrow Island, just off the coast of western Australia in April 1996. An individual mesovortex, a smaller-scale circulation embedded within Olivia's eyewall, produced five extreme 3-second wind gusts, the peak of which was a 253 mph gust on April 10.

Always thought my old Corvair Spyder could do that. Come to find out the speedometer was broken......

 

[smokeythecat]

I don't like 25 mph winds! Too many trees up here in the woods to blow down on power lines.