Covered Slips are sinking in Tennessee. :(

[Eddieclemons]

Well some are sinking and one flipped from the ice today. I would have thought the weight would have been engineered into the design.

 

[Freeebird]

That brings back memories for sure. Blizzard of '93 and Fort Loudoun Dam Marina in Lenoir City, TN. I called the marina the morning after we got a ton of snow to see if they still had power. They didn't, but the concern was sinking slips due to the weight of the snow. To make things more interesting, a tornado a week or so before had torn loose a section of dock that sealed the harbor. With that, we were a captive audience.

I told them I was driving over to move my boat to an open slip, but they told me not to. They wanted everyone to stay tied to the docks to aid them in staying afloat. Uh, no. I picked up a friend to whom I had sold a boat a couple of years earlier, and we moved our boats into open slips. We ended up staying on our boats and running our generators for a couple of days until things returned to normal.

Nothing happened that time, but the next big snow brought down the covered slips. They didn't sink, they collapsed. It was nowhere near as much snow as before, but they had apparently been weakened enough that they couldn't stand the next round. I had moved my boat by that point, but my buddy's boat received substantial damage. Other boats were totaled and/or sank.

 

[Sadey]

What lake are the pictures from.

 

[Eddieclemons]

These pictures are from Old Hickory Lake on the Cumberland River. This is a community dock about 20 minutes by road way East of Downtown Nashville.

 

[Eddieclemons]

Fresh Snow just finished these off downstream.

Several other places not looking good.

 

[Freeebird]

Just saw this.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/n...EpP2-22eNZtWEurbL6vCDc9rHCNq5kPsCcl1v-Ksn-T2g

 

[Freeebird]

Pretty dumb to stay on a boat when the docks had clearly been sinking.

 

[Sadey]

God weeding out the gene pool.

 

[Freeebird]

The marina specifically warned people about being on the docks with this going on, but these people obviously didn't listen. I think they should be billed for that rescue as they put first responders in danger while keeping them from attending to others who weren't... dumb.

 

[oscarvan]

I think they should be billed for that rescue as they put first responders in danger while keeping them from attending to others who weren't... dumb.

Yep. Just like an accident resulting from an unsafe lane change or other dumb move is not an "accident".... and should carry a 10K fine NOT payable by your insurance.

 

[Eddieclemons]

Today was even worse for several locations on the TennTom, Mississippi, to the Cumberland. There was a drone up on that Old Hickory collapse today and it caught another one as it happened.

 

[Eddieclemons]

https://fb.watch/3KNEBgkbRd/

 

[Freeebird]

Yep. Just like an accident resulting from an unsafe lane change or other dumb move is not an "accident".... and should carry a 10K fine NOT payable by your insurance.

That's an extremely odd analogy. This was no accident, it was an act of God that came with several days notice. These people failed to take it seriously.

 

[jim rosenthal]

This happened a few years ago on the Bohemia River, up here on the C.B. Sheds collapsed and took at least one 54' Hatteras MY with them. As I recall, this happened in such a way as to prevent the owner of that boat from getting it out. No one hurt, but a lot of boats lost. Covered sheds have their hazards, along with everything else in life.