Fort Pickens FL Flooded Again
From the Pensacola News Journal
Soggy Fort Pickens just can’t get a break.
The National Seashore park remains closed today because park roads, campgrounds, parking lots and boardwalks remain flooded, six days after the park closed at the end of the day on Aug. 16 ahead of a tropical system.
Seashore officials expected the main road to flood and be smothered in sand, as it often does these days, when big surf and high tide pushed a storm surge across it over the weekend.
But the 3-inches of rain that fell that weekend along with the rain that has fallen since, has left many areas of the park underwater, even though the sand has been removed from the main road.
Park rangers will assess the flooding situation Thursday, said seashore superintendent Dan Brown.
If the water has receded, the park might reopen to campers and visitors.
Soggy Fort Pickens just can’t get a break.
The National Seashore park remains closed today because park roads, campgrounds, parking lots and boardwalks remain flooded, six days after the park closed at the end of the day on Aug. 16 ahead of a tropical system.
Seashore officials expected the main road to flood and be smothered in sand, as it often does these days, when big surf and high tide pushed a storm surge across it over the weekend.
But the 3-inches of rain that fell that weekend along with the rain that has fallen since, has left many areas of the park underwater, even though the sand has been removed from the main road.
Park rangers will assess the flooding situation Thursday, said seashore superintendent Dan Brown.
If the water has receded, the park might reopen to campers and visitors.
