Isaac pics from Lagoon/Fort Morgan area.

I took a few pics down the road from me, I could only go to about the 4/5 mile marker then turned around.

Little Lagoon

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Boat launch on Fort Morgan RD

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West end of Fort Morgan Rd

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Saltwater pouring in from the gulfside to the highway

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Beach side on fort morgan rd

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Heres a short video of the surf...Kinda messy out there for sure...Just click the pic.[img width=528 height=432]http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w144/saltfisher1/Isaac/th_014.jpg[/img]

WOW! That's unreal there was already some overwash from the waves and tide.
Great pics BTW :headbang:

[size=12pt]Thanks SF1, great shots and video. [/size] :headbang:

Water on Fort Morgan Road was rising fast so I would attempt a trip down there now...It was getting hard to see the edges of the road at 11:30 today so it has to be bad by now...Thats from the 5 mile marker on down.

I went to the Lagoon Boat Ramp and it looked okay around 12 or so...Going back to the end of my street in a few to keep an eye on the water level..I live just about due north of West Beach Pass.....Wind has picked up a little here since 1:30.

I hope Tofer is doing okay. he is a good ways out there on Fort Morgan Road. Being as i have not seen any posts from him I will assume he is without power already.

The water is starting to get over the edges of the lagoon into folks yard on the northside just west of the pass.

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If you can see that peach or pink colored house thats where west beach pass is.
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I went back to this area a few minutes ago and it looks like the water is still coming up.

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[quote author=Dick link=topic=1927.msg18149#msg18149 date=1346183883]
I hope Tofer is doing okay. he is a good ways out there on Fort Morgan Road. Being as i have not seen any posts from him I will assume he is without power already.
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[size=12pt]I just talked to Tofer he is fine. He has been at work and is on the way home now.[/size]

Just talked to a friend of mine on the far west end of Fort Morgan Rd and they still have power as of 3:45 but he has about 1 ft of water in his yard and is stranded for the duration...He is on the bay side near navy cove harbor condo.

awesome job of getting some pic, I'm hoping some one can get some pic ,down around the state park camp ground. mike

I believe the State Park is closed off since it is easily flooded.

More lagoon pics

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In the aftermath, after the flood tides receeded more damage to the sandy beaches is revealed...
http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2012/sep/03/b-ar-4471306/

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By: Debbie Williams | WKRG
Published: September 03, 2012 Updated: September 03, 2012 - 6:08 PM
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FORT MORGAN, Alabama --
On the Bon Secour Wildlife Refuge near Fort Morgan the waves of Isaac reshaped the beach and in doing so revealed what appeared to be a tar mat.

On the northern edge of a tidal pool that splits the beach, what looks like part of a road or parking lot on the beach.

"I could tell almost right off the bat what it was cause it looked like the stuff had congealed with the sand and you could pick it up. It's pretty solid," says Eric Chiasson of Gulf Shores.

Three or four hundred yards from the fort near Alabama Point, it is 3 to 6 inches thick in places. It looks like lava that has cooled. It is very gooey and it is all over the beach.

Chunks have broken away and litter the beach. Watching where you step is imperative.

"Kind of gross. I was kind of surprised," says Chiasson. "I thought it was all gone but obviously it's not so."

What appears to be another tar mat is down the beach a few miles. This one not as big but just as concerning for Chris Estes. "I still think there is a lot of work for BP to do. You know they have a pretty strong PR campaign going about how the clean up is going and everybody is coming back. When you see that it really shows they did a surface level job."

The Coast Guard got the same reports we did and tested samples. They came back as a mixture of clay and grass.

BP is also sending assessment teams out and clean up crews will return to the beaches tomorrow.

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Another case of mistaken identity where BP is being made to pick up natural peat exposed on the beaches. ::)

[size=12pt][font=comic sans ms] I went to photograph the Rachel shipwreck Saturday and got a couple shots of two huge black mats in the surf. Before I left I pulled several chunks off the mats and they are definitely NOT oil. They are a mixture of grass, reeds, twigs and mud with a touch of old fishing line in the mix. No odor and no residue on my hands!
I did not post the photos on my page because I didn’t want to start a “the sky is falling” campaign. I am not a fan of BP, but people tend to over react to what they don’t understand and jump right to oil spill even if it is totally unrelated.

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These are the newly exposed bottoms of old dune depressions, back water swamps and lagoons that filled in with heavy organic material (dead dune grass, bits of wood, detritis, dead animals, etc. until the were level enough to be covered by wind driven sand for years.
the hurrican'es wave action simply unburied them.