Jekyll Island

[gamoonbat]

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[disembodiment]

Wow, that brings back 7th grade memories for me; my class went on a field trip down there, too.

[gamoonbat]

Was the convention center there then?

[disembodiment]

Hmm...I can't remember. I remember dorm-like places to sleep, the sand and the phosphorecence, and that boardwalk looks very familiar. They made each of us city kids take a solo walk down the boardwalk without anyone around us in the middle of night.

[gamoonbat]

That sounds more like Sapelo Island to me. I think the Jekyll accomodations have always been private hotels, and the one we stayed in was pretty pricey. Most of the students camped. I did not see any boardwalks on the beach, although there is one through maritime forest by the old Holiday Inn.

[artricia]

I thought Jekyll wasn't troubled much by tropical storms, because it's nestled away in the Georgia bite. When I was down there last, someone at the nature center told me the last hurricane there was in 1935.

Hurricanes and Jekyll

[gamoonbat]

There was also Hurricane Dora in 1964. I do not know a lot about this actually. The 1935 storm seems to be referred to as the Labor Day Hurricane and was one of the Weather Channel's "Storms of the Century." It seems to me that the Georgia Bight might actually funnel the storm and make it more severe at landfall.

Re: Hurricanes and Jekyll

[artricia]

I think the effect is more like an incline helping a truck to slow, rather than a decline that speeds it up. But I've heard that for some reason, they usually hit the Carolinas -- Cape Hatteras. Probably because the bight isn't on the usual trajectory?