Noreaster

[Guest]

Hope you folks up north get to keep your power and dont suffer too much,it just officially slammed into the peninsula.If it goes south enough and sweeps across the daytona area,its a biger boon than any hurricane to us metal detector enthusiasts.Ima hunt me some doubloons if it hits just right!

 

[Guest]

..................huh?

 

[Guest]

Um sloooower now..I hooope nobody suuufers during this nooooreaster,it can actually be a gooood thing for us meeetal detector enthsiaststststs..

 

[Guest]

I thought I understood until the last sentence.

J.

 

[Guest]

O sorry man,gold doubloons from the 1715 wreck on the Fla east coast near daytona,if the cops dont cordon it off first for "safety" reasons lol,then themselves and their families break out their detectors and steall all the booty!

 

[Guest]

why would a noreaster have anything to do with florida?

 

[Guest]

SB, are talkin about a storm? I seen on AOL that there's a dangerous storm somewhere but I didn't read about it.

J.

 

[Guest]

Because a huge line of thuderstorms will form in the gulf stretching south below the peninsula or to the Keys and will move in a Northeasterly direction,thats why it'll affect Florida.Unless my meterological skills have been too long untested lol.I can hope.There gold on dem dare beaches!GOOLD GOLD I tells ya!

 

[NOKUY]

there is gold on the beaches of Nome, Alaska too...LOTS of it.

not metal detector stuff, mostly sluice and pan. I know several people who work the beaches there for a cpl. months a year every year, and make more than most 9-5ers make all year long in the lower 48.
I also know peeps who make even more than that (cpl. hundred thousand a year) working claims in the fairbanks area w/ a suction dredges. (all stoners and growers too..lol)

nothin' ta do w/ your noreaster, but thought I'd share

for those that havent seen a "suction dredge" here is a pic.
its basicly a floating sluice box, and a diver takes a hose to the bottom of the river, and "vacuums" up the gold etc...from the bottom of the river. then its just a normal sluice/pan operation....there are mechanized ways to pan it all out, but thats how my friends still do it:
are suction dredges used in Florida?...or elsewhere?...I've only seen them used in Alaska

 

[Guest]

Thats too cool,no really I mean just too cool..for me..to treasurehunt in winter clothing lol.Actually my Whites DFX can detect gold nugs with either the 850 eclipse standard coil or the DD 1400 deep scan coil I'm dying to use.Actually I'm probably quite ignorant of the climate,its probably beautiful most of the time.

 

[Nikijad4210]

why would a noreaster have anything to do with florida?

Don't you have any understanding of weather systems, or how massive they can get?? Dude, the low pressure system was huge last time I saw it on radar, stretching all the way from New England down into the Atlantic off the FL coast.....I'd explain what a Nor'Easter is, but I think it would serve you better to do the research yourself.


And Bob, I know what you mean, it kicked up some great swells from what I heard. If THAT didn't churn anything up, I dunno what would, lol. West coast FL got some tornadoes in the mid-morning, my area got some good thunder, good lightning and a shitload of heavy rain. I'm not complaining, we need the rain bad. Still need more of it, but we got a good amount to tide us over til the next system pushes through.

 

[Nikijad4210]

are suction dredges used in Florida?...or elsewhere?...I've only seen them used in Alaska

Could be what they use to dredge deepwater sand to replenish some of the beaches each year.

 

[Pops]

Nokuy, suction dredges are used in Idaho to get gold from some areas, but most of us just used homemade sluice boxes and a shovel. We then pan out whatever was left in the bottom of the sluice.

Bob, I hope you find a couple dozen Spanish gold pieces. Then you can move your Mom to Cali and grow in peace. Lot more gold in weed here than in Spanish coins in Florida. No hurricanes, either. Only thing you have to worry about is falling off into the ocean during a big earthquake and finding parking places within 20 miles of where you want to park.

 

[Guest]

Alas,no treasure for this kid.That shit broke up quick yesterday,by 1pm it was beautiful.A meterologist I'm not lol.Those noreasters are better than hurricanes for treasure hunting precisely because of the track they take,beaches with sand blowing N.E on the east coast of Fla have two or three feet of sand virtually cleared from the beach area itself.Hurricanes tend to wash more sand over the booty coming from the east/southeast.EDIT O yea I do hope everyone up north there didnt lose power and all that good shit,I've been so lucky with the hurricanes it isn't funny

 

[.♠.]

Too bad ya didn't get anything bob.

Cool hobby you have though. Something I never got into, but certainly find interesting.

Peace

 

[bounty29]

I had to work from 11am til 11pm yesterday, so I got to see the whole thing unfold. I was also lucky enough to be driving the entire time so I got to experience it firsthand. I dunno about other places, but in northern Vermont it rained until about 5pm, and then turned to snow. Huge flakes, coming down like crazy. At times visibility was 100 feet tops. It turned back to rain around 11pm~, but I'd say 3-4 inches had accumulated.

It was just slop though, nothing but slush everywhere. By the time I was done with work my feet were completely soaked. Roads got bad for a little while, but then the rain cleaned it up. It wasn't cold enough to freeze, if it had been there probably would've been a much bigger mess.

 

[Guest]

My god I wish theads moved this fast in the grow forums,stop on over and chat awhile lol.Just kidding of course,theres an endless supply of endless babble here of which I'm a proud contributor babble babble