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To all of the Floridians, stay safe tomorrow! Fingers crossed for minimal damage but lots of fossils washing out.
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I discussed going to the Peace River hunting today, but decided I had a bunch of chores to get done at home. You might recall from previous posts that I lost a good chunk of my fossil collection because I moved it into the carport for storage, and Hurricane Ian redistributed some of it across my neighbors property. I kept like things together in Zip_lock bags. Last week , we had very heavy winds around 40 mph that blew anything not nailed down around...An hour ago, I was picking up stuff that had blown onto my neighbor's property and I saw... a Ziplock bag... it had been torn, but in the bottom of the bag were a few pufferfish mouth plates and some Stingray teeth... As I turned to return home, I spotted another Ziplock bag... this one still sealed !!! Dumped them out, washed them off... It has been over 7 months since the Hurricane... Sometimes, thru happenstance, things just work out.... Jack
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As many of you know, my home on Sanibel was severely impacted by Hurricane Ian, especially by the storm surge of 12-15 feet. I was fortunate that the living areas escaped major damage. I have a 13 foot carport as the 1st level, and 90 % of its contents were destroyed or washed away. This included one of my kayaks, found badly damaged 15 feet up in a tree 6 weeks after the surge hit. Also in the carport, was a 20 drawer display cabinet containing lots of excellent fossils, which I could not fit inside the house. I have searched for that cabinet for 2 months, walking thru the much and mire of hurricane debris. Yesterday afternoon, about 3 hours before dinner and a play, a friend called my wife, saying there was a cabinet, like mine, dumped at the side of our street, 5 houses down, waiting for trash removal. I was up at 1st light, and indeed verified this was my fossil cabinet. It was full of sand, mud, fossils and broken beyond repair. The cabinet must have rolled in its journey thru the surge, since it contained a lot of palm fronds and large seeds from a Bismarkia palm and at least one panel was breached, allowing some loss of contents. I ripped the cabinet apart with pry bar and hammer in search of fossils. I recovered about 35-40% of the original contents... My glass in half full. This is a GREAT Christmas present.... I finished about an hour ago... Some of the recoveries.... That is a small Baleen whale mandible tip. I am really pleased to get it back...Jack
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Just wanted to make a little thread telling everyone to stay safe and make sure they're all good and ready for what's to come!
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Hey everyone who lives in coastal New York or the New England area, here's hoping Hurricane Henri doesn't cause you too much trouble in the next few days. Don
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Hi- we are new to this forum and have great interest in finding out what we picked up this weekend after Hurricane Dorian on the beach in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We actually drove from Ohio Friday night to look for sharks teeth and came home with a few (nothing sizely this visit) and this piece of what we believe to be fossilized tusk.
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