This has not been our typical fall here on the Carolina coast.
First the heat stayed longer than normal into the fall.
Then the winds and the rain seem to make regular appearances, timed to thwart most fishing attempts.
I can remember crossing the first bridge in Swansboro around midnight. There in the dark and rain was a fisherman with his boat anchored just to the north and west of Clyde's Seafood.
That was a dedicated fisherman forced into desperate measure by uncooperative weather.
However, even that was not as bad as what we found this morning. The gut behind our house was frozen over. That raised some concerns in my mind especially when I noticed that there were some holes which had refrozen.
My assumption was that some of our native Jumping Mullet might be breaking through the ice. I immediately wondered what would happen if hey were to land in a spot where the ice might be thick enough to prevent them from re-entering the water?
Fortunately I did not see any flash frozen mullet. Had I seen any dead mullet if would have been dead mullet on Canadian hands.
I know Canadians are a reasonable people, but I also an aware that you are trapped in a land of cold temperatures. This cold obviously makes you do strange things.
Why else would there be Canadian cars at Old Orchard Beach, Me. in January.
While the US government has been concentrating on building walls along our southern border with Mexico, I think we have missed an opportunity to save energy.
We should have been building wind breaks along the Canadian border. We could have diverted those cold Canadian winter winds into windmills powering electric generators.
While our low temperature this morning was a shocking twenty-seven degrees Fahrenheit, we did manage to get above freezing around 9 am this morning. We are approaching five degrees Celsius or almost forty-one degrees Fahrenheit as we near noon.
Our government missed the opportunity for the Canadian windbreak. Now we have seen ice in the water along the Carolina coast in November. There are lots of events planned for November here along the Crystal Coast. None of them require any ice on the water.
The good news is that we should see temperatures over sixty degrees by Monday.
It would be a good time for Canadians to come for a visit and mend relations.
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