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Water Spout

Postby BigTruck » Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:45 am

Recently went on vacation to the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf Shores Alabama and Pensacola FL to be exact) and the weather decided to give us a show!  And yes I swam in the oil spill, turned a pair of white board shorts into a pair of rust orange board shorts!!

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Re: Water Spout

Postby Mitch. » Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:31 am

Wow, stunning. :o
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Re: Water Spout

Postby expat » Sat Jul 24, 2010 8:51 am

A case of the right place at the right time. Great capture Truck :o

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Re: Water Spout

Postby glennokc » Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:21 am

Love to be on that ship out there :-P. Great Pics truck
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Re: Water Spout

Postby Bob70 » Sun Jul 25, 2010 1:20 am

Nice shots. Sounds like you got well lubed.  ;)

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Re: Water Spout

Postby glennokc » Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:31 am

i want to see a photo of said swimming trunks
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Re: Water Spout

Postby BigTruck » Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:51 am

It was just a tint of orange Glenno, enough to know that there was oil in the water, I'll post more shots later, they had full blown hazmat crews out there cleaning the tar balls out of the sand, we only had one day though where the oil sheen came in, the rest of the week the water was pretty clean except for a few tar balls here and there.
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Re: Water Spout

Postby Hagar » Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:53 am

Good catch. The beach looks clean enough. Not sure swimming in that oil is such a great idea.
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Re: Water Spout

Postby Fozzer » Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:13 am

Wonderful Catch!

Beautiful sand!

I notice the water spout was playing around for the whole time the Folks on the beach assembled their tent and covered it, and lots of Folk gathered around beneath it!

I wonder how long the spout displayed from start to finish?

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Re: Water Spout

Postby Hagar » Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:57 am

I notice the water spout was playing around for the whole time the Folks on the beach assembled their tent and covered it, and lots of Folk gathered around beneath it!

I wonder how long the spout displayed from start to finish?

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Different tent Paul. :P
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Re: Water Spout

Postby BigTruck » Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:14 am

Wonderful Catch!

Beautiful sand!

I notice the water spout was playing around for the whole time the Folks on the beach assembled their tent and covered it, and lots of Folk gathered around beneath it!

I wonder how long the spout displayed from start to finish?

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It was a good ten to fifteen minutes Paul
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Re: Water Spout

Postby Hagar » Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:03 am

[quote]Hagar - The water was rather clean, a few splashes of oil here and there, stained the trunks, but I still dove in and got what I asked for!!!!
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Re: Water Spout

Postby Fozzer » Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:30 am

[quote][quote]Hagar - The water was rather clean, a few splashes of oil here and there, stained the trunks, but I still dove in and got what I asked for!!!!
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Re: Water Spout

Postby BigTruck » Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:01 pm

[quote][quote]Hagar - The water was rather clean, a few splashes of oil here and there, stained the trunks, but I still dove in and got what I asked for!!!!
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Re: Water Spout

Postby Hagar » Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:49 pm

[quote][quote][quote]Hagar - The water was rather clean, a few splashes of oil here and there, stained the trunks, but I still dove in and got what I asked for!!!!
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