St. Augustine braces for Saturday morning’s high tide

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Major king tide Saturday greeting expected to beryllium astatine slightest a ft higher than Friday night’s insignificant precocious tide

High tide occured astir 9:40 p.m. Friday successful St. Augustine. (WJXT)

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Downtown St. Augustine is bracing for Saturday morning’s precocious tide.

High tide occurred astir 9:40 p.m. Friday. But this is what’s called a king tide, which comes successful pairs — a insignificant and a large precocious tide. Friday night’s was the minor. The large king tide, which volition hap astir 12 hours later, is expected to beryllium a ft oregon much higher.

A nor’easter dumped rainfall crossed the area astir of Friday. News4Jax has seen crews trimming backmost immoderate of the trees and clearing debris. Some concern owners successful the country told News4Jax that they’re not expecting the floods to past excessively agelong and aren’t anticipating immoderate closures.

High tide occured astir 9:40 p.m. Friday successful St. Augustine. (WJXT)

The harsh upwind inactive didn’t support immoderate radical from enjoying their Friday nighttime out.

“We thought it’d beryllium a quiescent nighttime down present and it’d amusive to ticker the upwind and, you know, it hasn’t disappointed,” said Ponte Vedra Beach nonmigratory Brian Carmelengo.

St. Augustine visitant James Dolan said: “We felt atrocious for the radical that person to woody with utmost precocious tides and erosion, and I mean tomorrow’s going to beryllium a brainsick time for a batch of people.”

We besides spotted vessels retired connected the water, weathering the beardown winds. Those winds person caused immoderate isolated damage. On Florida Avenue successful St. Augustine, a monolithic conception of a histrion collapsed onto 2 homes, 1 of which appeared to person taken the brunt of the impact. According to archetypal responders, nary 1 was location astatine the clip and determination were nary injuries.

A histrion fell onto 2 St. Augustine homes. (WJXT)

The St. Augustine occurrence main told america earlier successful the time that they’ve been called to assistance 5 boats since Thursday. No injuries were reported. Also earlier Friday, determination was immoderate flooding adjacent the Castillo de San Marcos, arsenic good arsenic Lake Maria Sanchez, conscionable southbound of downtown.

If you unrecorded oregon person immoderate vehicles oregon spot on the coastal areas of Vilano Beach and up and down St. Augustine, program for important flooding connected Saturday.

This marks the 3rd clip successful the past six years that we’re apt to spot h2o levels similar this. The archetypal 2 were during hurricanes Matthew and Irma.