First one; I just got out of a 9 hour jury trial and an only in the car for about an hour when dispatch puts out a two-Jon Boat accident on the big lake with one boat missing. A storm has just hit hard and Pend Oreille is not a good place to be on a small ship let alone a Jon Boat in a storm. She can kick up 20-30 confused seas.
I buy the call and advise dispatch to get Marine and the Dive Team enroute. I working my way through traffic in a heavy rain with sticker tires less than an hour old. Trust me they are no longer Sticker tires. ;^)
I make it about 10 miles when dispatch calls and says one boat is missing but there was no accident. They were coming from Lakeview towards Bayview together and only one made it. Crap, that end of the lake runs up to 1000 deep. Some places are almost that only deep 100 from shore.
So the Marine Sgt. plays a hunch. He tells dispatch to call the Lakeview bar. Sure enough, one boat went across in the storm while the other went back to The Happy Hermit and was battling the heavy seas on a barstool.
So now I wipe off the sweat and open the Adrenaline dump valve to get rid of the excess.
Then this morning we get a car in Coeur dAlene Lake at Cougar bay. The vehicle ended up turned turtle but the occupant(s) got out and will survive.
Hummmmmm, is this another fast season opener that will slow down after a fast start or will it continue?
We had a very quiet summer compared to the norm. Quiet is a good thing.
Gary D.
I buy the call and advise dispatch to get Marine and the Dive Team enroute. I working my way through traffic in a heavy rain with sticker tires less than an hour old. Trust me they are no longer Sticker tires. ;^)
I make it about 10 miles when dispatch calls and says one boat is missing but there was no accident. They were coming from Lakeview towards Bayview together and only one made it. Crap, that end of the lake runs up to 1000 deep. Some places are almost that only deep 100 from shore.
So the Marine Sgt. plays a hunch. He tells dispatch to call the Lakeview bar. Sure enough, one boat went across in the storm while the other went back to The Happy Hermit and was battling the heavy seas on a barstool.
So now I wipe off the sweat and open the Adrenaline dump valve to get rid of the excess.
Then this morning we get a car in Coeur dAlene Lake at Cougar bay. The vehicle ended up turned turtle but the occupant(s) got out and will survive.
Hummmmmm, is this another fast season opener that will slow down after a fast start or will it continue?
We had a very quiet summer compared to the norm. Quiet is a good thing.
Gary D.