Hurricane to hit Treasure Beaches?

[Bigcypresshunter]

HURRICANE SEASON IS HERE!!! Get Ready. I will be this time! Gotta be on the beach before the bridge road blocks set up.
What is the best car to sleep in? Suicide? Do I have Gold Fever? :P
Should I rent a bungalo for the season?
What do you say Cappy? Are you with me? 50/50.

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

A man of your wealth should rent a bungalow for the season..
One can never have too much GOLD!
lol
CZ

In my dreams.
A modest room, off-season, near the beach, in the summer, during hurricane season, couldn't cost that much, better than the car, plus I gotta live somewhere. I need a place where they can't force me to evacuate.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Oh ferchrissake...

Shaking head,

Cyn

Something bothering you, Flea?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

What I am tryng to say is that the first persons on the 1715 beaches find the treasure. The police have smartened up, and will not let us across any of the 3 bridges to the barrier islands. (beaches),after a storm, unless I have proof as a resident. To rent ahead of time may be the best way to have this proof. Sleeping in the car, as some have done, can be dangerous. Staying in a room is a possibility, esp. if the bridges are out again. Will another storm hit this year?

"Millions of dollars of Spanish treasure await those who would dare brave the eye of the hurricane." (quote FSHEYE)

 

[PyrateJim]

Looks like you just answered your own question. Rent and enjoy the storm, then collect your gold for weathering it out.

 

[LadyDigger]

Being 10-15 min car ride from the oceanfront, and only MD'ing since April this year....I am so very excited for the storms to hit (of course, I do wish they could hit with causing damage or harm to the ppl)....but hubby and I are ready to hit the sands!!!! Now, I will not....after sitting here at home through Isabel in Sept 2003 (even though she was a 2 or upper grade 1...depends who you talk too)....I will NOT sit through another, 2 or above...that was scarey at all get out!! My dau survived IVAN and my parents, ANDREW and some former shipmates, the one that hit New Orleans (can't remember the name...just had a brain fart...sorry)

So, depending on the cat hurricane, depends on how quick I get to the beaches, the riches I may find are not as important as protecting my kids ....But I wish everyone safe journey and happy hunting!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Being 10-15 min car ride from the oceanfront, and only MD'ing since April this year....I am so very excited for the storms to hit (of course, I do wish they could hit with causing damage or harm to the ppl)....but hubby and I are ready to hit the sands!!!! Now, I will not....after sitting here at home through Isabel in Sept 2003 (even though she was a 2 or upper grade 1...depends who you talk too)....I will NOT sit through another, 2 or above...that was scarey at all get out!! My dau survived IVAN and my parents, ANDREW and some former shipmates, the one that hit New Orleans (can't remember the name...just had a brain fart...sorry)

So, depending on the cat hurricane, depends on how quick I get to the beaches, the riches I may find are not as important as protecting my kids ....But I wish everyone safe journey and happy hunting!!!!!!!!!!

Here in Florda, they block the bridges to the beach, before, during, and AFTER a storm. Do you have the same problem?

 

[LadyDigger]

Bigcypresshunter.....well, my route to the beach is right down the main road that goes from Norfolk right to the oceanfront, use to be (still is called) Rt 58 or Va Beach Blvd now or 17th Street when you are at the oceanfront.

The only two bridges into this area that are of major concerns are the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (but high winds alone can stop certain vehicles from crossing over at anytime of the year)...

During a major storm...they will try to stop you from driving to the oceanfront, even going on the beach. But we have those, as you see on the news, right in the middle of the hurricane on the beach!!! Surfers too!!!!

Major probs though with bad storms / hurricanes...is flooding...the oceanfront area floods big time...so that would prevent driving of course.

But we have been very fortunate in this area...other than Gloria in 1985...Isabel has been our hardest hit for the beach area since 1935, or was it 64 time frame? So, we are very long overdue for a big one. The Outer Banks saves us, unfortunate for them though

So, from what I have seen in the past, other than the winds stopping traffic, I don't recall them ever stopping anyone crossing these two major bridges. They do close these bridges when the winds get 55 or more, esp for trucks and cars with luggage racks (It happened to me) and campers and such. Besides, if you know the back roads (what's left of them) ... you can get around this area fairly well...just have to watch for the flooding. And unless there is extremely major damage, you would have to prove you live at the oceanfront to get into that area.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

After hurricanes Frances and Jeanne you could get to the beach from the one bridge left standing or from AIA up or down the coastline. After Wilma, all access to beach was prohibited from all directions, unless you lived there, and in Broward Co. that didn't help. No access to beach! The police are ready to stop us!

 

[LadyDigger]

I would say, if you could find a SAFE way to get there...go ....I would...but here too....police on the beach stop ppl too (mostly surfers though, which I understand that!!). I am going to try after a good storm. The Strip is pretty long...so I am sure I can get on somewhere where no one sees me

I know after a few Nor'easterner's we had....ship wrecks have been found on the beach. I would love to find that...but the CITY grabbed it and the guy who found it...received no credit!!!! Well, he did after the newspaper article was printed...but he could not get any claim to the wreck That was just a couple years ago....

Also, we heard...just off shore is a sand bar....between the shoreline and the sandbar is suppose to be great to finding stuff. Hubby is a diver and will be getting his underwater detector soon. He plans to go out and see what he can find!!!

Wishing you to be safe this hurricane season and also great findings on the beach!!!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

The Treasure Coast beaches are on a barrier island (an old reef). And it is not hard to set up roadblocks at the bridges and on AIA. They are trying to stop looters from entering a devastated area with empty homes and apts. If I have a local beach address, I might be allowed to stay, and I can keep a lo profile. If I can get to the sand, I should be OK. Maybe I should bring a surfboard, they might ignore me, thinking I'm just a nut.

 

[LadyDigger]

Hey yeah...that's the ticket...build yourself a surfboard, but make it a secret compartment to store you metal detector in...that would be so cool (Now watch, someone will make something like that now, just my luck LOL). Yea, they wouldn't think anything if you had a surfboard...seems those are the only ones that can get on the beach LOL.

That is a cool pic. Wow...look at that erosion too!!!

If you had a friend living out there, maybe they would let you stay with them. But then again, don't know if I would want to be on the beach during a hurricane either.

Same here, even though I live in Va Beach and have a local addy, if they close the oceanfront to residents only, I would not be allowed to get to the beach. But it would have to be real extreme, not just abit of flooding.

Oh, those looters tick me off so much!!! (UGH...that's a whole new topic there!!)

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Imagine Spansh shipwreck survivors on that same beach. The pic iis a few weeks after. A lifeguard stand became buried in a couple weeks. The sand is originally stripped off, then builds back up quickly starting on the next high tide. Add beach renourishment on top and forget finding anything now. I think a whole pier may be buried on that beach.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Big,

It does not always take a Hurricane to produce a deep cut on the beaches. In December of 1988 there was a bad Nor’easter storm that produced a stellar eight-foot cut on some of the Treasure Coast beaches.

Even though the temperatures were in the 20s, and it was Christmas, a lot of us from over on this Coast made the jaunt over there. I found some modern silver coins, as well as three Cobs. The guy just to my right (also from Tampa) found a huge gold cross with 12 emeralds on it, 1715 period.

HH, Jim

Are you saying the finds were deep in the sand for a long time or washed in?

Cyn

It is probably both, a combinaton of everchanging sands. Buried treasure is also washed out of the dunes, where it has been for almost 300 years. I believe wthout doubt that there is treasure on the beach right now, but too deep to detect. A good storm will eat 10 feet of sand and expose the goodies. But it will rebury it quckly. There is a small window of oppurtunity.

 

[Southcacalaky]

Good Luck, Art...

 

[LadyDigger]

Same here for our beaches...every year they replenish the beach with new sand...so any good stuff is buried very deep, where a detector can't pick up. And yes, we have a sand dune just off shore, that is where my hubby wants to go. He's a diver and is getting himself an underwater detector. He wants to go detect between the beach and the sand dune. Usually you find someone finding something really neat in the late fall / winter time frame, due to all the sand poured on the beach washed away. Infact, you can go to the beach today and see where erosion has already started on the sand they put up there. I figure by summer's end...alot of that sand will be gone, except what is close to the boardwalk.

And I agree....as I said in an earlier post, our area is very long overdue for a big hurricane hit, but those Nor'easterner really cause us more damage over these last years than hurricanes have. I live on a creek and since 1999...the erosion of our bank is changed drastically!!! We are trying to see how we can get a bulkhead or something put up to help stop the erosion....but everything is so dang expensive

We also have Ft Story at the end of the beach front with the Chesapeake Bay on it's other side. I love going to the military beach there, you don't get all those tourist's!!! I called and spoke with a rep from Ft Story a week or so ago to see if I could metal detect. She said as much as she would love to say YES....they can't allow it due to all the ammo buried all over the base, some she said, still live ammo. They do have some archelogist there doing digs at the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse and even they have to be careful, due to the ammo. But I really wonder, could ammo be buried all over that base? If you maps.google.com and look at Ft Story, that's an awfully pretty big base and most of the ammo that I am aware of would be mid base to the shore...but I have not studied all there is on the history of Ft Story.

Another beach you can not detect at here is Buckroe Beach. Apparently someone found some ammo some years back, then others found some...most were found IN THE WATER!!!! Shells. They closed the beach to metal detectors, said for the safety of the people. If that's the case, you need to close the beach to everyone, for the safety of all. One of the guys who found some, was military ammo expert and said what was found would not explode, nor a safety issue. Some from the Civil War time frame from what I am told. I need to research that further to really get the full pic...but that is what I was told by another local detector who lives in the Hampton area of Buckroe Beach.

Big....I know what you mean about Spanish shipwrecks...we live in the area of the GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC...so many ships off the coast of VA/NC....

 

[Roadquest]

Bigcypress, What type detector do you use to hunt the beach?

Roadquest

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Bigcypress, What type detector do you use to hunt the beach?

Roadquest

I need to buy a new one, when I sell my house. What do you suggest?
Actually that is my brother. I took the picture at Corrigan's Beach. All I have is a 70's vintage underwater Whites Amphibian..Actually works well underwater but only 4" on dry land. I think A Pulse would be good, with so little trash on those beaches. I see many using the Excaliber.

 

[Chagy]

HURRICANE SEASON IS HERE!!! Get Ready. I will be this time! Gotta be on the beach before the bridge road blocks set up.
What is the best car to sleep in? Suicide? Do I have Gold Fever? :P
Should I rent a bungalo for the season?
What do you say Cappy? Are you with me? 50/50.

BiggyC.

I am all in for the rent 50/50

Chagy.........

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

When I get situated, I will start looking around. The trick will be to predict when the big storm is going to hit and find a place that can ride it out.
I tried to get on colored Beach from the north, after Wilma, and was stopped at AIA roadblock. Police said "no way,...unless you live there?" I had to say "no, I don't."
Would be nice to have local address. 8)