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sipping on some... sipping...
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hi everybody I'm Vince and I'm Emily and you're listening to the lighthouse
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I definitely almost forgot to click that. It was already recording for minutes.
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uh the intro. Oh well you nailed it. Thank you. You're saying the recording
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button. We're nailing it. Normally I'm on your side of the table but Vince is in
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charge for this episode. Welcome to it. Tell us all about it. Today we're first
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of all first history buoy. Oh yeah. Alright so today's history buoy is
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inspired by your last episode when you talked about the anatomy of a lighthouse.
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Okay very nice. The lightning rod. This specific? We're gonna talk about the
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history of lightning rods. Whoa. And then how they got to use on lighthouses which
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is why we're here. Very nice. First I'm gonna take a sip. The unofficial sponsor of the
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moment is Emily providing Starbucks. I was like I'm the sponsor? That would be
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true. That's true. Yes we are. Okay Benjamin Franklin is credited with the
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founding of the idea of the lightning rod. So. Because he used a. Benny Frankie.
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Because he used a. Was it a key or something? Yep. So I'm gonna a lot of the
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things I'm doing today are reading quotes and many of them later are coming
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from the lighthouse friends.com. And you look like a teacher right now. Because
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I'm wearing glasses. Benjamin Franklin suspected that lightning itself was
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electricity given its similar color, crackle, and configuration. Noting that a
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pointed metal needle could draw electricity from a charged metal sphere
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Franklin became convinced that a metal rock coax lightning from the sky. Why?
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So it would not strike. Excuse me. So it would strike the rod instead of the
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buildings or passerby's. Yeah. So I've never really considered that before that
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lightning rods intent is actually. To direct. For people. Like not buildings but
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also people. This is related and unrelated but remember when I talked
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about that the lighthouse where they connected the lightning rod to the
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stairway of the lighthouse. That was metal. Oh no. Was someone on the stairway?
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Yeah but he survived. Oh you're stealing my diagram. Yeah so he got shocked. Yes
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but he was okay in the end. He was paralyzed for a little while. I know.
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Horrible design chance. And now. Oh sorry go ahead. I'm sorry I'm trying to take
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over. This is ridiculous. And now what? No because you're talking about the lightning rods.
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I was just gonna say that nowadays lightning rods are like connected to a
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copper wires that direct it. That's right. To the ground. I am so sorry. Please
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continue. I want to learn from you. Let's talk about metallurgy for just a second.
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Copper wires. So it can be any type of wire that is conducting. Okay. Like
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aluminum doesn't conduct electricity. So yeah it's it's non-ferrous. Ferrous
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metals are well actually no that's that's magnetism sorry. Okay the best
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conductors for electricity among them are silver and gold. Silver is like one
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of the very best. Originally power lines were silver. Oh. But it was too expensive
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and I think people were stealing them. Oh. They're like taking down the wire
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because imagine running wire made of silver. Silver composite. Crazy. So copper
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is like the next step down for cost and also conductance of electricity. So that's
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why copper is used in wiring. Yeah. But there are some components especially like
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microchip levels that are gold and silver. Even in iPhones. I think they use
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those as well. So like it's all around us. Super expensive for multiple reasons
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but super conductive electricity. So some lightning rod cables are made of
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different materials. One we're gonna talk about is made of silver and I think it's
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a dual purpose we'll talk about. It's very exciting. So back to Benny Frankie. The Ben. The Big Ben.
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So legend has it we talked about this but Franklin hopped on a horse in the
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year 1752. Gosh. Which I've never considered when this happened. With a key on a
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kite and he needed the horse because there wasn't enough wind. It was a
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rainstorm he was doing this in. And I don't know if this is multiple times or
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just once but the legend goes rode the horse pulled the kite which sounds hard
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on its own. Yeah. And then observed that the key would get struck by lightning at
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least on one occasion. So that was his confirmation that lightning is drawn to
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a metallic object if it's high up in the air and it's kind of unique. It's on its
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own. It's like lightning is more likely to hit this piece of metal than somewhere else.
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Yeah I saw a TikTok a week or two ago about like a physics professor. I tried
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to find it but I can't find anything on TikTok after it's gone. But he was
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explaining lightning rods and how electrons are actually traveling off of
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the end of the rod because of its pointy shape and how electron travel will
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create the best path for electricity to travel through. So the lightning actually
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strikes the rod and goes down to the cable because it's the best path of
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least resistance between the source, the cloud, the thunderstorm, and the earth. So
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all electricity wants to go to ground. It wants to ground itself. So if you're
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shocked, if you're electrocuted, it's because the energy is passing through
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your body to the ground. Yeah. So that's why they have isolating shoes like
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rubber-soled shoes will help you from being electrocuted but you won't feel
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the electrocution unless you're the termination of the source. So like you
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can pass electricity through your fingers between two sources without pain
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but if you were to jump the gap and have a shock go off your fingertip that would
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hurt. Yeah. So lightning is an extreme event of that. Interesting. Pretty neat.
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Pretty neat. Pretty neat. I've seen pictures when people get electrocuted, sorry, when
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they get shocked by lightning that they have like holes in their shoes where the
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electricity exited. Oh my god. Oh when I was a kid we had a jacuzzi behind our
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house, of course, we had a hot tub and there was this little like pump or
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something. I think it was a cleaner that my my parents would put in there and it
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was electrical and I guess it wasn't fully sealed anymore. There's a copper
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wire exposed or something because my siblings and I we could touch the water
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and you'd feel it like you know fingertip. Who is letting you touch the water?
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Our parents weren't there and it was really mild and I touched it and I was
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like I can't feel anything. Well it's because they all had their shoes off I
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think and they were allowing electrical current to pass through them through the
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water because water is highly conductive. Your siblings? Yeah and so I took my
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shoes off and I could feel it too. I'm pretty sure that happened. Might be a
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false memory. It could be a dream you had when you did a bunch of electrical
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research. But here we are two and a half centuries later after the key in the
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sky on the kite, lightning rods persist. They're decorative architectural pieces,
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vestiges of the past and mitigators of lightning's power. So my next note is to
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ground. I was gonna tell you electricals pass to ground but a lot of lightning rods
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that you'll see now are actually an architectural style choice and they're
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not actually lightning rods. Meaning they make them intentionally not
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conductive materials so they're not a lightning rod. Why? They chose them
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because there was a period where lightning rods became so they were
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scientific. They were proven to be useful through lots of different ways
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and then they were seen on the top of pristine prestigious buildings, tall
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buildings like skyscrapers in Chicago and New York City. They're measured
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sometimes by the top of the lightning rods. The lightning rods have gotten out
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of control because it makes the building taller. So they can set records and they
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build a high-rise. This high-rise is taller than that high-rise because we
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built it this many stories tall. Who cares about that? And then well we've
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talked about this a little with lighthouses as well. The height of a
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lighthouse is often up to question. Is it the focal plane? Is it where the gallery
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is at? Is it where the very tip of the lightning rod is at? You know so anyways
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lightning rods are prestigious and they're decorative. They got really
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ornate and now that's been continued. Lightning rods are also still in use for
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their original purpose but a lot of the ones you'll see are either overly
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expensive because they want to look nice and they're useful or they're actually
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not the lightning rod and instead they're a non-metallic decorative part.
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I want to guess that. Who gives a crap about a lightning rod? The first use.
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I rescind that but who gives a crap about it looking nice? A lot of people.
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Including look at this destruction island lighthouse. This looks cool and
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part of the cool look to me of this diagram is the pointy top. You like that?
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Yeah I think it's cool. I think it adds to it. Something about it.
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Okay lightning rods were first used on ships because ships masts stand out and
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they had metal components to them often so they were struck by lightning and
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they'd be destroyed if not start a fire. Have you ever seen a tree get
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struck by lightning? Oh my god. Sometimes they explode. I know or they at least tip over.
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The lightning will take chunks out of so it'll ruin a mast and then a
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ship will be lost at sea or they can't get back or they can't repair it. Like
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they don't have extra lumber for the main mast. That was the first use was on
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ships because it was so important. They can also take chunks out of buildings like
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lightnings that are struck by buildings. Yeah lightnings that are struck by
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buildings. Oh my gosh this coffee is awesome. So anyway ships were the first use and then
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I've got to show you this next image lightning rod fashion. How do you have all that?
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Hold on. Fancy going on. Here shows the cable. So we talked about the yeah this
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section on the lighthouse. There's a security camera. Look at that cupola.
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Modern technology. Modern technology of a security camera and a cell tower and
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then also our old OG cable going to ground. Yes. Which is outside of the
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lighthouse for best design. Is it surrounded by something that keeps it from transferring the
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energy to all the other metal that it's touching right here? Is it like
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surrounded by rubber or something? No they're not insulated. It's open and
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exposed and that actually helps with the carrying of electricity. So it's again
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it's following the least path resistance. So that's a big gauge wire a
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large diameter wire and it's the best it's the easiest path for electric
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electricity to follow. So therefore electricity follows it and not being
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transferred into other metal. Which is confusing because if you see a
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lightning bolt it's not just a straight line. There's like branches everywhere.
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So why would it be that it would perfectly follow this cable even though
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it's touching a bunch of other metal? Like if you were standing and holding
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onto that balcony would you not be in trouble? I don't think so. I think you'd
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be protected. It makes sense that they they wouldn't lean it up against it like
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that unless it wasn't of any danger to anyone. Yeah. For anyone asking we're
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looking at a picture where there's a cable laying across the top of the
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cupola and the lantern gallery. Yeah so here's another picture. So this is a I wanted to bring this up because you can
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see it's damaged. Yeah. The lightning takes an effect on the system and this
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is not something I wanted to find out because lightning does strike twice in
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the same place. Yeah especially here. Especially where it's where we're trying
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to get it to strike right on the lightning rod. And this lightning rod you're showing is like
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eaten away. Is it corrosion or is it like blast off pieces of it? It's a form of
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corrosion from lightning strikes. Yeah so they'll take off. Well and lightning is
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thousands of degrees Fahrenheit. It's extremely hot. So the metal that you know gets
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in contact with the strike is not gonna last very long. So this is a I don't
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remember where this is at. Oh you know what it's called Gay Head Lighthouse. I
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can't remember where it's at. And this is what I'm super excited to show you.
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All right after 1778 shortly after Benjamin Franklin introduced the
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lightning rod parasol fab for umbrellas and hats that made use of new technology.
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A chain ran from the accessory down to the ground and would in principle carry
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the electricity from a lightning strike harmlessly to the ground. There's ladies
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in hats. Lightning rods did not become popular in the United States even to protect
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structures until the 19th century. You'd think you'd be worried about your hat
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being pulled off. There's something dragging along the ground attached to it.
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So these chains were almost always made of silver and that's what I was saying.
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Can you imagine wearing a silver chain that goes to the ground five six feet to
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the ground seven feet dragging along. Like oh it was a thunderstorm but we're
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headed to the ball. Let me grab my lightning rod hat. Lightning resistant
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hat. Look at that. Look at that umbrella. Can you imagine the cost of that thing?
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Long spike. It's like doubling the length of the umbrella with the
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rod coming. You can't open that thing inside if you never wanted to. You could
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barely even get that on a bus. It's pretty wild. So you'd consider that a
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weapon. Well they did. Pretty pointy. I think it's crazy so I really enjoyed this
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but this is the end of our history buoy. Very interesting. I think there's probably more to learn.
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Maybe an electrical engineer could talk to us about like cable carrying. Yeah.
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Current. The question about whether or not it would transfer to other metal
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surfaces just by touching it. I also want to look up how many lighthouses like didn't have
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lightning rods. I'm sure that. Oh damage from lightning. Yeah maybe. I mean
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considering that this well no there were some lighthouses built long
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before this so I want to see how many lighthouses have been destroyed by
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lightning before. That'd be interesting. Well and like this comes back we had a
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culture comment or conversation months ago but like you know there were
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skeptics. Yeah. Like a lot of skeptics and they're like oh you put a rod on top
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of the building or on your hat and it saves you from the God's power above.
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Like yeah. Or it'd be interesting you'd be like how do you know that you're not
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attracting lightning where there would be no lightning at all. Well and like if
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you go I don't know this is not advice people but I think we talked about
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lightning safety once like if you go on a walk in a thunderstorm condition you
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can't see the lightning always but it is being developed and sometimes you'll be
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around the first strike that you'd see close by and so it's like do or don't.
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Hi Bo. He's helping us. Got his chin on the recording board. I will adjust these when
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necessary. He's a good cat. So sorry for interrupting. Oh I don't know what I was
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saying. Oh walking in lightning storms. So I think the recommendation is that you
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do not walk towards tall items. So imagine you're like in the woods or a
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field. You're a farmer in a field. It starts to be you know lightning
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conditions. You shouldn't walk towards large trees because they might conduct
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the lightning strike and in that case explode or send wood shrapnel or set of
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fire collapse. Okay but what if you're in the middle of a field and you're six
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foot five. Like aren't you the lightning rod at that point? That's what they always tell you to lay
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down whenever there's lightning storm is because you're more likely to get hit
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because you're taller. Yeah so that's sketchy but people have been struck by
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lightning and they're okay. Some not okay. Definitely. Some have been struck by
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lightning and passed it. Oh and they get like bruises on their body that are like
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in the shape of lightning. Okay you're gonna have to teach me how you do this. Is
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this the Annabelle? I'm glad you recognized it out of this photo. So wait wait this
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slideshow how are you doing this? This is Google slides also not sponsored. What?
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Yep. I didn't know they had that. And they're pretty neat. Yeah I'm definitely
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gonna steal this idea because slideshows on on our computers are hard. Yep we got
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a full screen here. There's no like name I've got to crop out. Yeah. Nice. I like
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that a lot and you don't have to drag things in. Yeah all right so you have
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correctly identified via an image from I don't remember when a long time ago I
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think 1940s I remember right? Sanibel Island Lighthouse. So is that what you're covering today?
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That is what we're covering today. Dang it I'm so jealous. Okay tell me all about it. Well if you know something
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about it that I don't cover please let's cover it. No I just think it'll be a
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really interesting coverage and we've never done a skeleton lighthouse before.
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It is it is interesting. I want to talk about why I selected this one first. The
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the note that I have is vacation with family. Not my family not my vacation but
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a friend of ours mutual friend of ours sent me an image after Hurricane Ian.
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Yeah. And we'll talk all about Hurricane Ian. Of Hurricane Ian was September of
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2022 and shortly after she sent me an image of the lighthouse still standing.
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So a little bit of a spoiler in a positive way the lighthouse is still
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there. Now that we've discovered lighthouses that are destroyed now yeah
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maybe it's good we do this. Yeah and it's been there a long time we're gonna talk
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about the history I got a lot of things to read from lighthousefriends.com
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thank you again. Excellent we love them. And this image is also from them. So yeah
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shout out to our friend and thank you for for telling me about this. Very nice. We
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live in Kansas City Missouri and however bad it sounds I don't watch a ton of
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news so like as happenings are going on I'm not always aware of hurricanes
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coming. We're gonna have a couple photos to insert here of Bo the cat. He's
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trying to hit our trying to turn off our record button. I watched him go for it
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twice. He's probably be sliding the volume buttons there. No I keep an eye
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peeled on it. What is he doing? I think he's just wanting to be the center of
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attention. They both are he's purring up. Yeah Joey is here as well we each have a
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lap cat going on. So I'm pretty sure she's shared with me that they went on
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vacation here on an annual basis. Yeah. Or several times growing up and I'm gonna
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show you on Google Maps where we're going. Awesome. I really go remember you
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talking about that when the hurricane first happened. So here we are
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Sanibel Lighthouse 4.6 out of 5 stars. It's pretty good. 2000 ratings. So I'm
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gonna zoom out. I was just gonna say and you know some of those reviews are like
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it was raining. Yeah I can't believe it. I couldn't see anything. This experience sucked.
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It wasn't warm. So Sanibel Lighthouse is on this east coast of Sanibel Island which
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is a string of islands as you can see going up the coast. And we'll keep
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zooming out but this is Fort Myers Florida. So we're on the west coast of
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Florida. We can zoom back in too but Key West is down south. Oh so it's pretty
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southern part of Florida. For those are familiar it's Sarasota Naples.
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Splits the difference. So Key West is down south but apparently Florida has a
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lot of outlying islands on the west coast towards the Gulf. I didn't know that.
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Yeah when you scroll out they're not even not visible. Gulf of Mexico but Cuba is
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down there which again we'll come into the story later. But going back in
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Sanibel Island is uniquely one of the islands that's not running north and
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south in this area. It runs east to west and so Sanibel Island Lighthouse there's
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a beach right here. There's another beach that's really popular and then there's a
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fishing pier. There's lots going on on this island for people to go visit.
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Hurricane Ian has kind of reset that but it's islands still there. That bridge
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you can see on the maps is that the one that was destroyed? It was. It's the
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only bridge out there I think. Oh wow. A section of it was knocked out which
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isolated all the power was cut off to the island and travel as well. I
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read coverage from someone who was on the island during the hurricane and
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that they were just you know just hoping that their house would hold up and that
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they were gonna live. It's just crazy that people have to experience those
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kinds of things. I have a lot of glass artists that live in this area too.
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Oh really? Yeah and they had to they just they didn't they told people to evacuate
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but they didn't really. They keep doing that. Yeah they didn't really specify
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that like oh the water level is gonna creep up this many feet. Your house is
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gonna be underwater. It's like you may not get the brunt of the storm but
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there's your it's gonna be flooded even if you yeah it's just a lot of horror
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stories of people watching the water just get closer to their house and be
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like okay like it looks like we're gonna have to leave and then all of a sudden
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they're fighting for their lives to get out of there. Yeah I've got a lot to
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cover with herkinia. No no I actually really appreciate it because it's I
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watched I think there's two hours of YouTube video that some guy made on the
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storm driving around. Oh no. He's driving around with his wife filming and he's
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narrating what's going on with all these I don't know the area but people who
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know the area here's this resort here's what it looks like. Yeah. Here's this
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store here's what it looks like. You know these estates here and so on. He knows
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the island really well he's a local guy and then another video that's a drone
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footage which I will show us actually. Cool. And people in the drone footage
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comments are like oh it doesn't look that bad. It's like there's no street.
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Yeah. The house many of the houses are gone. Utilities are failed. Also even if
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your house is still standing the inside needs to be completely gutted. It's like
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there's nothing that water touches that would survive especially rushing floods
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like this is not it's not just like oh it's just my basement flooded it's just
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a little stagnant water down there. It's like this is like so hurricane Ian which
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is a focus point right now. Yeah. That was September of 2022 and it stretched
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from I believe from Cuba all the way up to South Carolina was the impacts maybe
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even further north. Wow. 161 fatalities. I didn't know 161 people passed away.
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13 were missing. I don't know if they're included in the assumed dead. Yeah. The
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total damage in the United States dollars is 113 billion dollars. What? Yeah.
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Third costliest tropical cyclone on record. It is the costliest in Florida's
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history. So areas Trinidad Tobago Venezuela Columbia ABC Islands Jamaica
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Cayman Islands Cuba South East United States especially Florida and Carolinas.
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Yeah. So this is good timing the other side of the US is about to get hit with
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a hurricane to the west coast which I guess hasn't happened in like 80 years.
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Yeah. So I wanted to before we move on from this this is a comment. Numerous
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collectors because of the east west running on the island it collects tons
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of seashells. Oh yeah. It's like one of the best in the world and and Lighthouse
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Beach is one of the best spots so numerous collectors flocked to the
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island now known worldwide for its shelling and combed the beaches hunched
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over and what is called the quote Sanibel stoop looking for the perfect
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shell. I love seashells it's like my sisters and I were trying to plan a trip
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to Florida and we ended up going to Fort Lauderdale but I was pushing for San
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Abel Island because of the shells. I was like where's the best shelling in
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Florida and hands down San Abel Island. So I tried really hard to push for that
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but the nearest airports like two hours away or something. For I don't know if
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it's Tampa. Oh maybe. I just closed the map but you don't look at it again. No no it's
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fine. I just Fort Myers is probably not the easiest place to get to. Yeah I just
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remember us we were looking it up that the travel from landing in an airplane
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to get to San Abel Island was just too it's just too much. Yeah Tampa's up the
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coast Sarasota I know yeah there's plenty of airports but the cost and
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coming from Kansas City. We'd have to rent a car. That's one of our challenges
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guys as a lighthouse podcasters is we want to go see more lighthouses. I've
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actually told people hey we're coming you know in September and we're not
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going. It's just it's difficult to get together logistics for us but we love to
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hear from people. We've been really lucky this year to hear from many people at
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different lighthouses who are listeners. It's been awesome. Yeah we love it.
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Connect us to it. We live vicariously through people who live near lighthouses. So that's the San
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Abel stoop. The causeway so the road the bridge yeah connecting the island to the
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mainland was not constructed until 1963. So before that time a ferry had
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transported people to and from the island. Oh so yeah there's your ferry the
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islander. Oh cute nice old cars. Isn't that cool. It'd be a great job. What is this
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picture from? So this is the ferry going about to land on San Abel Island. Is this
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from US LHS archives or is this? This is from lighthousefriends.com. Okay it's one
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of their four or five images they had referenced. They probably got this from
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US LHS. Yeah just for a note for people if you ever want to see well the US LHS
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has an archives where you can find literally everything. You can find
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keepers logs from any period of time any lighthouse. You can find like what's it
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called? Not biographies. Logs. But just pages on keepers and stuff that happened
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the lighthouse. Pictures of all kinds of stuff. I thought this was cool. Yeah.
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Let's do our next. Yeah it's a good image too. Very cool. Another black and white image. The first
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settlement on the island was actually 1833. Oh my. Small group of settlers
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petitioned for a lighthouse at that time but the request was not successful.
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Because there was so few of them. Neither was a settlement. Yeah. Oh no. They were only there for five
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years. So disease and hardship the settlement was abandoned. Oh man. Well they're really
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separated. So that was the first first recorded peoples on the island. Yeah. So
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1830s and then to the east we just talked about that that bay over there.
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That bay started to grow in business transporting cattle from the United
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States who'd come down to Florida. Okay. Cattle would get on boats and then they'd
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be shipped to Cuba. So that was kind of the first pathway growth of industry in
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the area. So that necessitated another lighthouse appeal. So. Spectacular. Did not mean to do that but that's cool.
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This picture he's showing is cool. That's really old but it's a the dock to the
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lighthouse has a little pathway with like it must be like a little fence but
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those little bulbous things lining the way. It's like it's almost it's fancy.
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Yeah. And it's across the whole island at the tip. Yeah spans the whole thing.
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1856 the lighthouse board recommended a beacon was established on the island. No
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action was taken. After the Civil War which is so crazy all this is happened
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before the Civil War. Yeah. Another request for finding the lighthouse funding the
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lighthouse 1878 accompanied by the following justification. They come
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forward with reasoning now. Let's quote it. A lighthouse on Sanibel Island would
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supply a want that has long been felt for lighthouse between the Key West and
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Egmont Key. The coast wise yeah coast wise trade of Florida is considerable and
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increasing. A great number of sailing vessels also six steamers are now
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plying between Key West and the ports of West Coast of Florida. Vessels bound
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across Florida Bay make their landfall and take their departure from the
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southern point of Sanibel Island. Congress again was slow but they
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appointed fifty thousand dollars in 1883. Wow that's a lot of money for that time
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period. You think it's partly because they had to ship materials or yeah the
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transportation. And one of those ships sank. No with stuff. Yeah for two
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lighthouses. Oh my god. So work on the lighthouse began in February of 1884. The
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structure was fabricated in the north and shipped to the site. So the work it
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wasn't built on site but it was erected there. Yeah. So 162 foot long teahead
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wharf was built on piles which is what we see which allowed materials to be
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landed for the tower and two square keepers delings which are topped with
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tipped roofs and supported by iron pilings to the ground. Okay. So two miles
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from Sanibel Island the ship carrying iron work from Jersey City for the
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towers at both Sanibel Island and I think it's pronounced Cape San Blas BLAS.
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The ship sank. So crews above two lighthouse tenders assisted by a diver
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were able to fish up all the pieces to save except for two calorie brackets.
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So like the railings. So they had to. Except for two gallery brackets. Couldn't find those. That's so cool that they could
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recover everything. So the lighthouse came out of the water before it was erected.
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They're like let's adequately soak these items and then we'll construct it.
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They're seasoned. Now they're seasoned by the sea blessed by Poseidon. Yeah 1884
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that was. Maybe that's why it's still standing today. They had done some work on it. Oh dang.
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Almost good. Yeah those those brackets came from New Orleans. So the both of the
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towers consisted of four iron legs that were arranged in a pyramid fashion
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around a cylindrical column topped by a lantern room. The lantern was ready to be
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lit by keeper Dudley Richardson on August 20th 1884 which is still so long ago.
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It is. Third order Fresnel lens or Fresnel lens. Oh gotcha. Got me.
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Grace the tower at a height of about 98 feet and produced a white fixed light
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punctuated every two minutes by a brilliant flash. So I don't know how they
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do that. Could you see the light at all times? And then it would flash because
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like it was magnified for. Can you repeat what the. So the lights constant white.
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Okay. And it would flash every two minutes. So there's a rotating component
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and then you can see the light like incidentally like you can see right at
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it I guess if you're close. It must be. This is why I need to do a history
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booy on Fresnel lenses but it must be that there were no bulls eyes on each
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side it was just panels and then one side maybe was just a different color or
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maybe there was a bulls eye that was a different color. Yeah interesting. They
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didn't have. Every time we look at lighthouses I think that kind of is given
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or just not really focused on. Yeah. So the history is not the technology is not
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always covered. A couple of engineers always want to know. Yeah. So the but
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what's cool about this lighthouse and I'll go to the next photo now is the
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the center column is about 20 feet off the ground. So you need there's a
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staircase to get to it that's built in as well. The staircase was lost in
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Hurricane Ian but I don't know why that is. I just think it's not necessary for
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it to go to the ground. I think it was segmented the way it was and it could be
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built that way and it's like it's got the legs why would it need the center to go
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to the ground. It's not a structural component. Okay. Oh yeah. The structure is all
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exterior. Oh you would think by looking at it that the center column is what's
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structuring like what's keeping it in the ground. So they have a ladder that
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goes up to the base of the column and then from there there's a stairway. Yep
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stairway is internal to it. Very cool. So really that center column is just for
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people to go up and down and potentially also the weight system that we've talked
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about. The clockwork system. Again I didn't find details on that but I was
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fascinated by the structure so all the load supporting is on the exterior.
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Compared to like a brick tower that yes or concrete tower. You wouldn't think
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that'd be enough when you look at it. There's eight legs going to the ground
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that look small. Yeah. Yeah from the bottom to connect to the ground. You can see
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there's the four major corners which are probably the largest load and then in
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between the four corners there's a segment that goes up just two segments
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and then from there you just have the four that go up. Yeah. Interesting. I'm
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sure it's engineered. Oh yeah. I mean if it can withstand hurricanes then. And
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its design was used a couple of different times. Is it brown because it's
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rusted? It is corroded. Yep. Okay. And it was restored in 2013. I don't know the
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this says 2021 so this would have been right before. It's a solid decade ago.
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It's still as far as lighthouses go that's true pretty recent. Accompanied by
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his wife and two sons Henry Shanahan the first keeper. I thought it was Dudley. This is 1888. Oh I see.
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You're right it was Dudley. It was 1884 so he was the first keeper. Okay. Second
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keeper I believe and there's only I have a list at the bottom. I think there's
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eight throughout the lighthouse's history. There was eight headkeepers. Yeah.
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23 assistant. 23. Yeah crazy. So Dudley was 1884 to 1892.
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Shanahan was not the headkeeper when he arrived. That's why. Okay. 1892 took over.
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So glad we got that ironed out. Yeah. So he moved from Key West in 1888. Two
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years later became the assistant keeper of the lighthouse. When Richardson
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resigned Dudley in 1892 Shanahan applied for the position of head keeper. Nice. At
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first the lighthouse authorities refused to promote him since he was illiterate.
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How do you write keepers logs? You wouldn't. And how do you even be an
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assistant keeper? I mean I'm we're just I'm so spoiled we're born in then late
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1900s like we're old now. Well you know around that time it's like it's kind of
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like I was just thinking about this the other day like I would have never
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learned stained glass if I weren't an apprentice for a stained glass artist in
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this time period. Like well like the modern thing of like working on cars I
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don't understand I like I'm a mechanical engineer as far as what I studied in
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school sure but that doesn't mean I can fix cars. Yeah. I just watch YouTube and
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I'm like okay that's how that guy did it. Yeah. He learned it from a book maybe or
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a master mechanic but like the things that were empowered to do today are
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so crazy. Yeah. It is like you didn't go to school unless you were gonna be a
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scholar or like a politician or something it's like if you were doing
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something like being an assistant keeper it's it's more like you need to be an
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apprentice for something and I remember reading to that one of the camera where
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oh Little Ross I think one of the keepers he was an apprentice for like a
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boat something boat related or camera but yes and then over time he had seen
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the lighthouse so much that he wanted to be a part of that and that's how he
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became a lighthouse keeper. Fascinated by it. But like you just didn't go to
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school unless it was relevant to what you were planning on doing which was not
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like today it's like you have to be educated and then you can decide what
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you want to do whether that just be through high school or middle school or
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whatever. And there's you know there's pressures through that just like you
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know I know being what 16 17 years old and supposedly deciding like what your
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life is gonna be. Oh disaster. I don't know that that was that different actually
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because 16 17 back then you probably have to be making money. Yeah you have to
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be close to being an adult so gotta be responsible for something but so that
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was he was literate but he threatened to otherwise resign so they gave him the
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position. That was easy. Master negotiator. After a few years of living in the
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lighthouse Shanahan's wife died I'm not sure how. Leaving him with seven
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children. Oh good heavens. In town. In town. A widow named Irene Rutland happened to
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also be living with her five children as a single woman. Oh my gosh. Soon she and
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Shanahan struck it off and got married. They combined forces. And they had
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another son. And together they had 13 children. That's a lot. So yes. Oh gosh.
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This is written on the. Needless to say the family helped run the lighthouse.
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Yeah they have. That's good. One keeper and now 15 assistant keepers. 13 children.
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Or 13. The Shanahan's had a pet deer that would race up and down the beach along
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with a trained cat that would roll over like a dog. Good cat. Henry passed away in
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1913 after 23 years of the lighthouse. His son Eugene who had served. Yeah served
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as a lighthouse assistant for several years. Would later come back in 1924 so
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11 years later to carry on the family's connection to the lighthouse. Kind of
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neat. Clarice Rutland one of the step sons. Oh Clarence. I'm sorry Clarence.
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Served as an assistant keeper from a stint in the 1920s and again in the 30s.
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So the family was around for a while. You had that many kids. You know. Rutland left
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the description of the daily routine of the lighthouse. I'm not sure which one.
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Which Rutland. There were two men at a time. We changed watch each night at 12.
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It was an oil light then. We take a five gallon can up full in the
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afternoon. Pump the light and bring the can down empty in the morning. Just crazy.
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Five gallons. It's always five gallons. Those Home Depot buckets are
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five gallons. Crazy. So heavy. Somebody had to be with it almost every minute it
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being the light. Yeah. During the day we had curtains we hung around every one of
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those prisms. So a lot of work which is nothing new for lighthouses but it's
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always crazy. Yeah. Another key event in 1919. The assistant keeper was shot and
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killed. What? Yep. Where? In Fort Myers Press. June 23rd of 1919 reported that
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Jesse W Lee of Fort Myers had shot and killed Richard T Barry, assistant keeper
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of the lighthouse, the day before around noon after Barry had reportedly insulted
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Lee's wife and refused to apologize. Five months later a jury in Fort Myers
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acquitted Lee of the murder. He admitted killing the assistant keeper but claimed
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it was in self-defense. Wait a minute. I think I've heard this story before. No way.
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Yes. No way. Like why? Was this a story where he went and got his gun from the
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house and then came back and shot him? I don't know. Because either something very
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similar happened to somebody else. I'll have to. It's in the station's logbook
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that the head keeper Charles Williams received word about 130 that his
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assistant had been shot and killed the day he was killed. Was it outside the
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lighthouse or was it like out? It was in town I think. Okay then never mind.
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Oh business. Yeah I think he was off. I think he was off duty. The next day, the
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next day the lighthouse tender ship Ivy arrived at the station bringing Mrs.
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Barry, who was the wife of the deceased and a new assistant keeper. Oh my gosh.
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The next day. They're like we have this guy lined up ready to go. He was only 45
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years old. They took him to Key West for burial. He'd been in Key West as an
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engineer before his role as a keeper. 1923 the dwellings were modernized
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receiving indoor plumbing and bathrooms and enclosed porches. Actually sounds
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like a great place to be. Yeah. Same year the light was converted from kerosene to
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acetylene gas which is like those small lanterns you pump up. You press your head and they
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glow white. Oh yeah. Roughly 670 acres were originally reserved for the
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lighthouse but by 23, 1923, the boundary of the station property extended only a
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thousand feet west of the lighthouse. As we've talked about before islands are
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moving. So it was getting a little tight. Yeah. There was a Coast Guardsman named
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Bob England. He came to the lighthouse in 1946 with his wife May and infant
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daughter Margaret. The following year hurricane caused severe erosion of the
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island and left one of the dwellings standing in a foot of water. Due to in
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part to concerns of erosion the lighthouse is automated in 1949. So that
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was only three years after he arrived. This particular keeper. England was
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assigned to the Fort Myers Coast Guard station from where it continued to serve
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a standable light island along with other gates navigation the area. So it's
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kind of interesting and like oh there's corrosion going on. Maybe that's one of
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the reasons the tower is built the way it is with the main component not on the
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ground. Because it would just invite too much. Well the elevation of
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St. Abel Island is three feet above sea level. Oh. So they just assume at some
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points it'll be flooded. Maybe. I've never considered that until just now. So even
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though he moved away the dwellings were not really ever empty. The island had a
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large part of it in 1949 assigned to the J.N. Bing Darling National Wildlife Fresh
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Food which is still there. Okay. Which is really nice. It's a gorgeous section of
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the island. Charles LeBuff lived in the assistance keeper cottage for 21 years
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starting in 1958. So they were rented out or you could buy them. They're rented out
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and I think up until now I know I'm gonna mention it. I've got a lot I'm just
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reading here. I'm sorry guys but I think it's really interesting. Oh yeah. But I'm
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pretty sure they were occupied by government officials that for taking
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care of the lighthouse grounds that was their rent. So they were they're rented
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in a way. Okay. They're owned by the city. Yeah. And yeah I'm gonna shortcut part of
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this. And the shortcut says they went from the Coast Guard who stopped taking
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care of them to the BLM the Bureau of Land Management which is big up in
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Montana Wyoming and then Bureau of Land Management sold it almost gifted it to
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the city. So the city owns the lighthouse again and still manages it. Okay. So that
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will fast forward us some in the story. Sanibel County Council awarded almost
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270 thousand dollars to a company in 2013 to restore the lighthouse. In that
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restoration they replaced this company replaced sections of deteriorated steel
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on the tower then sanded and painted the exterior. The city of Sanibel certainly
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showed its commitment to preserving the lighthouse property. 2016 the lighthouse
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dwellings were added to the city of Sanibel's a register of the stress
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register for historic sites and structures. Okay. Or the resources. There
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was a man come lots of those. So I just I don't know I think it's pretty neat.
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Those dwellings are gone now aren't they? They are. Dang. Here's before and after
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Hurricane Ian. Oh no. This is actually the image this came from Instagram. Yeah.
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This is actually the image that our friend had shared with us. Ah it's just
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the island. Everything's gone. It's and it's so it changed the silhouette of the
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island entirely. Like it's it's so it ate away. I mean that's got to be how many
541
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feet do you think that is that now the water is right next to the lighthouse?
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100 feet of beach are gone. So much vegetation destroyed. The fishing dock was gone.
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Houses are gone. Everything's gone. Yeah. Oh they have a dock. Yeah. So we'll I got
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more coverage on that. Hurricane September 22 Hurricane Ian category 4
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category 4 storm ravaged Sanibel and swept away two keepers dwellings at
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Sanibel Island lighthouse along with the oil house and a portion of one of the
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four main legs that support the tower. Yeah. A section of the causeway leading
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to the island collapsed during the storm leaving the island cut off from
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immediate aid. The pieces get this the pieces of the support leg lost from the
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storm were later recovered. No. Yeah. Yeah. That's insane. That's barely any material. They found it.
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A structural engineer hired to assess the damage structure found it the structure
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to be structurally sound with three legs. Oh no. So it's just left like that.
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They repaired it. Okay. That would have been awesome though. The stairs were gone so they had to use a
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ladder to even get to it and he's like yep this thing's good with his inspection.
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That's insane. That is crazy. Oh yeah that other leg was just for show. Also how
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crazy would it be like when you see how much sand has been moved by this
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storm like that's it's shocking that it wouldn't just be buried beneath 10 feet
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of sand. The fact that it's standing. Yeah. Just the tower. That's what it's made for.
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That's why they do skeleton line houses. It's just they have just the wind
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resistance you know. Less surface area. Yeah the wind just goes right through it.
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There's no it's not taking the brunt of any high winds it just goes straight
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through the lighthouse. It's just a bunch of pipes basically. Strong stuff. So after
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Hurricane Ian the Florida Lighthouse Association provided $60,000 in
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emergency funds to help repair Sanibel Island as well as Boca Grande lighthouse
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and Gasparia Island lighthouse. I'm my pronunciation. You think those are nearby? They are.
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Okay. I checked into them. Yep. Five months to the day after Hurricane Ian
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nearly toppled Sanibel Island lighthouse a relighting ceremony was held at the
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base of the tower early in the morning of February 28th. The reactivated
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lighthouse served as a literal beacon of hope as an island community continued
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its recovery. Let's get me. Very nice. Did they so did they have the same flash pattern for the
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lighthouse? Did they change anything about it? No. Okay. No changes. That's good. I think I had other images that were
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proud and cool but I had one from the base of the tower that showed this
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scale of those houses and how big they are. Yeah. And now that they're gone I
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just I've dumbfounded by how the tower is still there and all it's gone. Yeah
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everything's wiped completely clean. Even there's not even any indication of
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foundations there anymore. Yeah. Also I just realized those keepers
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cottages are enormous for just having one head keeper and an assistant
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sometimes. Very nice. I think they had multiple assistants at a time. Very big
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and fancy. Oh they had like second and third assistants. Yep. Interesting. I
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wanted to show you this a little bit out of order but this is so the city of
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Sanibel their website is mysanibel.com. Okay. But you can go to Lee County
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hurricane Ian damage assessments. This is my type of research. I go clicking and
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this is to me is crazy. I'm clicking. I'm clicking. Clicking clicking clicking clicking.
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All right so this shows the county that's why the borders are where they're
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at. Whoa. But here's Sanibel Island. These are all instant reports of damage.
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So the only here this is non-residential and non-commercial this is the
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lighthouse or lighthouse. This is the Wildlife Reserve up here. But everywhere
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else. These are all like buildings they're talking about. Yeah. So you can actually go look. So
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reds are destroyed. Major damage minor affected. For everyone not on the
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Instagram we're looking at a map on the website that shows little pins all over
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where there was a house that was destroyed or had any sort of level of
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damage and at the tip is of course the lighthouse cottages. Destroyed. So it's
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only foundation remains is the description assessment and then if you
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go down I think it shows the address and I looked up the address. Yep 114
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periwinkle way. Periwinkle. I'm pretty sure that was one of those two. That's
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interesting because often leading to a lighthouse like this road that you can
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obviously see in the map. They're usually named lighthouse way from what I've seen
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you know it's like a large percentage of the road names have something to do with
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lighthouses and this one's just periwinkle. It's cute. That's a that's a
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cooler. So that's just residential. Oh no. Show commercial as well and you know
601
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it's a big tourism area so it's packed. It's a packed island. Yeah. 535 million.
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Is that million? I don't know it goes off the page. Yeah. Major three billion
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miners two billion total damages. Seven and a half billion dollars. That's in the
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county. That's from one storm. In the county. Can you zoom in on the point at
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the very end again? Because it doesn't say anything about the lighthouse. 153
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periwinkle way. Oh that's that's another building. These are louvers. It's like a
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door. Wow the door got blasted inward. That is pretty crazy. They have
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pictures if you click on each pin they have some of them have pictures of the
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damage and there's this door. It's a door that's still connected to the wall that
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was just blasted in. Yeah so people are like oh it's just flooded. Nope it's like
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punching through walls. Pretty wild. Total losses major damage. This is just
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all these homes. All of them like almost all of them have a pin. If we go just
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commercial. These are all businesses. Is this all water? So like between all the houses is water? I
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think so. You think that's from the storm or is that was that intentional?
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I think those are intentional. Oh yeah they're like channels. People have their boats in their backyards.
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Oh so cool but you know some of these channels don't connect to the ocean. Really?
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Yeah I was just looking. Like this one doesn't seem to connect anywhere. I bet
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she gets out somewhere. We're in we're invested now. So they can go under that bridge.
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Oh there it is. Oh yeah. Out north. There's Lighthouse Way. Oh there's always one somewhere.
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Oh do you think the light? No I was gonna say you think Lighthouse used to be in a
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different location. Battery's gonna die on us. Oh. I don't think so. I don't think so. I think it's been allocated.
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It was built over here so but kind of interesting and then I was gonna show
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you the aerial YouTube view but I don't think we need to cover that. It just shows.
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We can put the link in our show notes so other people can watch it. I'll put it up
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while we're closing out here. Okay. And a comment one last note someone left a note
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on lighthousefriends.com. Craig writes the Sanibel stoop thing isn't just a
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catchy phrase it's for real. During a visit to the island property on a Sunday
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morning in 2006 we encountered dozens of people patrolling the beach looking for
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the perfect seashell and yes a lot of the time they're bent over all at the
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waist. One guy with a knatted sack knitted sack apparently made for shell
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collecting waited about ten yards offshore and seemed to be having the
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most success judging by his fullness of his sack. I was dying to join in on the
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fun but unfortunately I was a tired for church and soon had to leave for the
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other form of worship. Thank you Craig. So much fun. I love shelling. I am definitely
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stooped over when I'm looking for seashells and I got my knitted sack.
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Yeah it's like the one time that you and I were on vacation and I found a shark
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tooth and I was like oh how cool I've never seen a shark tooth and then I
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realized by talking to the other people who were shelling that they were all
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looking for shark teeth and I had just happened to find one when I wasn't
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looking for them. I was like oh yeah I just I just found one so they're around
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and they were like oh you know get back. It's so crazy. It's like it is a discipline it is like a
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it is like a way of life some people with the shelling well you know when you
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take me on beach vacations I'm like well we better get up at five so that we can
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beat the other people to shelling you're like what? All right I'm gonna insert a
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picture right here Emily on her knee scooter after needing surgery didn't know
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it at the time we literally got an all-terrain knee scooter I carried the
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scooter and Emily crouched all the way across to the long beach get to the
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water so you could ride her scooter to shell. Although I will say dedication I
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first of all this was not an area that had shells it was where were we?
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Hatterbanks, Hatteras. Yeah okay it was not a it had some shells but it had some
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but they were already picked over yeah and I'm gonna insert a picture here of
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Vince holding out shells because it was too hard to do it on my scooter so then
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he took my place shelling. Do you have a picture? I do. All right well as always we
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appreciate you guys listening this is a fun episode for me more professional than
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my last one. Thanks for covering this one. You can tell from my excitement is that I
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Florida's got a ton yeah they do yeah and it's fun to have a recommendation
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from a personal friend of ours here in Kansas City. We love it when people give
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us suggestions always anyone who lives near a lighthouse just send us an email
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you don't have to tell us stories or anything just say I live near this
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lighthouse you should cover it. It's a fact yeah awesome you know where to find us the
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lighthouse slowdown calm also on Spotify YouTube everywhere everywhere all the
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time we're not on Twitter but oh yeah that doesn't exist anymore now it's just X. Oh yeah we're
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never on X or Twitter anyways yeah reach out to us we appreciate it and thank you
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for listening to lighthouse lowdown.
