sstterry":1oa5mzix said:
I heard this morning that the winds were over 60mph and that the boat should not have gone out. But the tourists don't know that!
I can tell you why, they did not know! That same wind hit us. Straight line winds are not predictable, and all week we have had storms that "might" happen. Yesterday, it was actual 105 with a feels like 125 (HORRIBLE). There was no weather warning, and only a 20% chance of rain. It was so hot, we did not even want to go outside! Just as fast as I could get out of my chair, the sky turned black and the wind started howling (my weather gauge said average was 48 MPH). The wind snapped two big limbs off of my trees in my yard, the temperature dropped to 68 (thank gosh), and we ended up with 2 tenths of an inch of rain. And the wind died after about 15 minutes (along with the rain), and the weather went back to normal.
The boats do not stay in unless the weather turns bad. That storm yesterday was fast and hard, and they got caught at the wrong time. There were two boats in the video posted, I am glad that both did not flip!