Fizz on the water?

I came across this on Youtube.

Chunky River

The Chunky River is a short tributary of the Chickasawhay River in east-central Mississippi.

Via the Chickasawhay, it is part of the watershed of the Pascagoula River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

The river is formed between the towns of Hickory and Chunky in southwestern Newton County.

Chunky River Raft Race

The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Chunky River" as the stream's name in 1963,it has also been known as:
Chanki River
Chunkey Creek
Chunkey River
Chunky Creek
Ectchangui River
Tchanke River

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunky_River

Shortfalls at Long Beach Harbor?

WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi

Where will TS Dorian go?

City of Pascagoula, South MS

Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi.

The name Pascagoula, which means "bread eaters," is taken from a group of Native Americans found in villages along the Pascagoula River some distance above its mouth.

Hernando De Soto seems to have made first contact with them in the 1540s, though little is known of that encounter.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, founder of the colony of Louisiana, left a more detailed account from an expedition of this region in 1700.

The first detailed account comes from Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, younger brother of Iberville, whom the Pascagoula visited at Fort Maurepas in present-day Ocean Springs, shortly after it was settled and while the older brother was away in France.

There are few details that are certain about these peoples, except that their language seemed not to have shared an etymological root with the larger native groups to the north, the Choctaw particularly.

Instead, their language seems more akin to that of the Biloxi or Natchez people, both of whom have been linked in this way to the Sioux, Crow, and Ho-Chunk.

The territory of the Biloxi peoples seems to have ranged from the areas of what are now called Biloxi Bay to Bayou La Batre (Alabama) and twenty-five miles up the Pascagoula River, and then the Pascagoula people's territory seems to have ranged between some distance north of there to the confluence of the Leaf and Chickasawhay rivers.

The first settlers of Pascagoula were Jean Baptiste Baudreau Dit Graveline, Joseph Simon De La Pointe and his aunt, the Madame Chaumont.

A view of a section of the Ingalls Shipbuilding Company showing various United States Navy ships under construction in Pascagoula

Local legend says the Pascagoula tribe chanted and waded hand-in-hand into the Pascagoula River, drowning together rather than become enslaved and killed to an enemy tribe, the Biloxi. Thus, the legend of the "Singing River" was born. It is said that on still summer and autumn evenings, the sad song of the Pascagoulas can still be heard near the river.

Pascagoula gained notoriety on October 11, 1973 when two local fishermen, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, claimed to have been abducted by aliens from a Pascagoula pier. The media frenzy that followed touched off national interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials unparalleled since the Roswell incident. In 1983, Hickson wrote a book about his ordeal entitled UFO Contact In Pascagoula.

Pascagoula also gained national attention in the 1980s, when novelty singer/songwriter Ray Stevens featured the town in his hit, "Mississippi Squirrel Revival." Stevens admits, though, that the song could have been set in any Southern town but the name Pascagoula easily rhymed with the word, hallelujah, which is heard frequently in the song.

Pascagoula Website

Summer pattern

The TS broke apart and what's left of it is heading up the east coast and no real danger to anyone, thankgoodness.

We are in our summer pattern, sunny hot and humid in the during the day and a possible storm in the afternoon.

Today we went to the Menge Flea market.

Flea Market

We all got a few things, but it was very hot and humid and a shower and change of clothes happened as soon as I got home.

That's a cute milk glass candy bowl, one of a few milk glass items I bought there in my last two visits.

A little more west..

It looks like Chantal is tracking a little more west than was previously shown.

But Florida is still a target only the west side of Florida now.

I don't like all those other squiggly lines in the Gulf but tomorrow we should have a better bead on the track.

We are in our typical summer weather, hot-humid with a chance of rain.

TS Chantal

Tropical Storm Chantal (shahn-TAHL') is racing toward the Lesser Antilles after forming in the Atlantic.

The storm's maximum sustained winds early Monday are near 40 mph (65 kph) with some strengthening expected over the next two days.

A tropical storm warning has been issued for Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique and Guadeloupe. A tropical storm watch is in effect for St. Vincent.

Chantal is centered about 630 miles (1,010 kilometers) east-southeast of Barbados and is moving west near 26 mph (43 kph).

Right now it looks like Chantal might skirt the east side of Florida.

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2013/07/07/4781440/erick-downgraded-to-tropical-storm.html#storylink=cpy

Happy Fourth of July

It looks like it will be a wet one in South Mississippi

Jubillee fish kill

HARRISON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) -

Researchers now know what caused a widespread fish kill along the beaches of South Mississippi Monday. Thousands of dead fish started washing ashore in Harrison County, Hancock County, and Cat Island in the early morning hours.

The Department of Marine Resources says one reason is low oxygen levels, due to the warm water. Several samples also pointed to Red Tide algae blooms in the Mississippi Sound that can deplete the oxygen and clog the gills of fish.

Many families took advantage of the event, calling it a "July Jubilee." They didn't seem to mind the dead fish and sting rays floating in the water and lying on the beach.

Hundreds of people were lured to the shores of Harrison County, after learning about an abundance of available seafood. There were a lot of flounder, white trout, speckled trout and ground mullet that you could catch with your bare hands.

"They're just floating on the surface," said Jordan Mathews of Biloxi. "I was watching the news this morning. I saw there was a Jubilee and some of my friends were out here gigging flounders, so I came out here to see what it was all about."

"What it appears to be is a Jubilee, or Red Tide. When the oxygen level is low in the water, the fish would come up next to the shoreline to try to get air," explained Chuck Loftis, Harrison County Sand Beach Director.

And that meant plenty of seafood up for grabs. The most popular was jumbo shrimp. David Morgan brought his grandson along for the fish free-for-all.

"They're just laying on the bottom. They're fresh dead. It's like a shopping spree at the seafood market. You just pick them up," said Morgan.

DMR officials are advising people that if you pick up fish in the water and they're still alive, they should be safe to eat. However, if you see ones that have washed ashore, don't pick them up or eat them.

Read the rest of the story here...http://www.wlox.com/story/22730148/thousands-of-dead-fish-wash-up-on-biloxis-shoreline