Listen to This Water Story... while waiting for Noel to Develop

This is the corner of 10th and Alton near Wild Oats.. it was underwater today, barely passable.

Yes this is one of those days... in between days when the Recon into the Gulf is cancelled and people wonder on whether Noel will form in the Bahamas and not the Gulf.

People wonder on water...For instance, Miami Beach is flooded all along Alton Road from the Bay literally rising up through the drains or up anyway the water can go on Miami Beach which is a beautiful overbuilt sandbar. I will post some incredible water pics later that were taken as I tried to get into Wild Oats and watched people navigate through water than was more than 6 inches deep in some places. Children with pack backs trying to figure out how to get around the water, an old man in a wheelchair trying to find high enough ground to turn the corner, jeeps slowly navigating the alley ways of Miami Beach. The other side of the island.. Washington Avenue is high and dry... the east side tends to flood when the sewers and drains cannot handle anymore. Understand also that most of the land to the west of Alton was dredged a long time ago for the beautiful Carl Fisher Hotels that graced the West Side of Miami Beach and looked west towards Miami. There.. just east of where the old Flamingo Golf Course sat (now Flamingo Park) and before the entrance to the Fleetwood, the Floridian and the Flamingo the sea is trying to take back the land if only for a day or so, take back it's natural shape which used to change with the tides. It was high tide when I took the pictures.. as the tide went down, the water receded some. A visually compelling reminder that the land we live on in Miami Beach was simply shifting sands on a sandbar across a once pristine Biscayne Bay filled with dolphins and so clear that you could see down to the bottom where the sea grass was before the spoil islands were dumped there and the MacArthur Causeway damned up the flow of the water in and the water out... from the Ocean into Biscayne Bay.

If you ever want to read a wonderful book, one of my all time favorite books about a time long gone in South Florida read The Commodore's Story, by Ralph Munroe. If you live in Miami you can pick up a copy at one of my all time favorite places, the gift shop of the Historical Museum of South Florida.




There are heroes still today who try and save our environment or at least educate us about what we are losing and what we can try and save if we only care enough to band together and fight for our beautiful beaches and our very beautiful Biscayne Bay.




Listen to Craig Grossenbacher's inspiring water story.. listen to Max Mayfield and other's and do something valuable and enjoyable with the rest of your day.. while you are waiting for Noel to form and pump more tropical moisture into an already water logged city.

http://www.hmsf.org/ Scroll down to Water Stories

I wish him luck and respect his desire to make a difference to our world.

Bobbi