Tornados in Florida
The wind
howled through the rigging and the boat danced on her mooring all night. In the
morning, we discovered we had a leak somewhere in our black water system. We
had over a gallon of sewage sloshing around in the compartment that houses our
holding tank. We called the marina for the pump-out boat which makes a morning
run. It wasn’t long before the mess was cleaned up and we began our efforts to
discover the source of the leak.
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| Macerator Pump |
The macerator
pump was the problem. It was dripping where two bolts holding the impeller
housing in place had sheared. We decided we could use our toilet for the rest
of the day and night without fear of an overflow since the holding tank was
empty and wouldn’t became full enough to reach the level of the leaky macerator
before we could have it pumped out the next morning. Since it was Sunday, we’d have
to wait a day to try to get a new pump.
The winds
continued to increase in strength and it began to rain around noon. We decided
not to go ashore due to the weather. Tornado warnings for the counties north of
us went into effect by the time the Packer game came on shortly after 3PM. The
Atlanta Falcons dominated the game. It was very disappointing. Our cell phones
announced a tornado warning for our area twice during the game. We decided to
stay on the boat. The weather radar showed the most severe path of the storm
passing north of us. Launching the dinghy and heading to shore would have been
unpleasant and dangerous. We felt we were safer on the boat so long as the
mooring held.
We are very
glad we made the off-shore run from Georgetown. We would have been in the southern
Georgia counties worst hit by the tornados if we had decided to go down the ICW
rather than off-shore. The last news we heard before going to bed was that at
least 6 people were reported dead in Georgia due to the tornados.
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