Sad news from Pascagoula...
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That is awful. My heart and prayers go out to the families. The Pascagoula is usually such a lazy river, but with getting 10 inches of rain Wednesday and some rain basically everyday this week, the river is high and current is fast. Any other time of the year, and that doesn't happen. Just awful.
Awful, just awful. I can't imagine what these families are going thru right now.
We need to keep these families in our prayers.
We need to keep these families in our prayers.
From what I have heard, they had been kneeboarding...
and they went in the water around a spot where barges have been tied up lately. I think they probably ended up getting swept under one of the barges by the flood tide and panicked when they couldn't get up for a breath because of the barge. This is horrible, and these boys, their families, and the boys on the Pascagoula football team are in my prayers.
and they went in the water around a spot where barges have been tied up lately. I think they probably ended up getting swept under one of the barges by the flood tide and panicked when they couldn't get up for a breath because of the barge. This is horrible, and these boys, their families, and the boys on the Pascagoula football team are in my prayers.
So was the river current strong enough to suck them under even with a life jacket on?
Or did they get caught where the incoming tide and the river meet and that was strong enough to pull them and their life jacket under?
Should they have been able to tell that it was that dangerous from looking at it? I'm only asking because I've seen a lot of people swim in rivers after rains, even coastal rivers, and it never occurred to me that they were doing anything that dangerous. Was something unique going on? Or are a lot of people doing something stupid without realizing it?
Or did they get caught where the incoming tide and the river meet and that was strong enough to pull them and their life jacket under?
Should they have been able to tell that it was that dangerous from looking at it? I'm only asking because I've seen a lot of people swim in rivers after rains, even coastal rivers, and it never occurred to me that they were doing anything that dangerous. Was something unique going on? Or are a lot of people doing something stupid without realizing it?
Yes, I live on the Pascagoula River and my kids were upset with me because I wouldn't take the boat out yesterday. It is scary enough in the boat when the River is this high (the boiling and currents will jerk the boat from side to side when in motion), I would never go swimming in the river in high water like this.
Yep, and the added danger is all the debris that is the rivers right now. I
remember taking my boat out as a young man on the Pearl river when it was
badly flooding in the spring and kept noticing that the performance of the boat
was changing. When I took it out of the water most of my propeller was gone and
I really never noticed hitting anything.
remember taking my boat out as a young man on the Pearl river when it was
badly flooding in the spring and kept noticing that the performance of the boat
was changing. When I took it out of the water most of my propeller was gone and
I really never noticed hitting anything.