{"id":4921,"date":"2010-03-05T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2010-03-05T13:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:35:45","slug":"nobody-knows-the-troubles-bad-day-on-outer-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4921","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Knows the Troubles — Bad Day on Outer Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pickup Truck Stranded on Lieutenant Island Bridge<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Outer Cape\u00c2\u00a0weather has been rugged this whole\u00c2\u00a0week.\u00c2\u00a0Wind-driven, non-stop snow\/sleet\/drizzle mix\u00c2\u00a0 pelted the Cape\u00c2\u00a0with little accumulation as temperatures hovered around freezing, day and night.\u00c2\u00a0 Massive wind-assisted tides tossed wrack high into the dunes and flooded bayside roads.\u00c2\u00a0 This workman tried to escape Lieutenant Island late Thursday afternoon, but\u00c2\u00a0got trapped between the causeway (right) and mainland road (left) as high tide violently gushed into the South Wellfleet marsh.<\/p>\n

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Flooded Lieutenant Island Bridge<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unwilling to wait the two hours it would take for the tide to recede, the workman decided to brave the flooded roadway and drive his pickup through the high salt water.<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0Autocide!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The scene reminded me of the favorite summer past time of the South Wellfleet\u00c2\u00a0“tidefolk.”\u00c2\u00a0 As the tide rises, they go down to the Lieutenant Island Bridge and cheer the tourists as they commit autocide.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing compares with watching a Mercedes SUV in a natural salt water car wash.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Small 4-Foot Dolphin Carcass on Indian Neck<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Continuing the bad day spell on Thursday, Turtle Journal discovered the carcass of a small, four-foot dolphin on Indian Neck.\u00c2\u00a0 This specimen had been thrust high into the\u00c2\u00a0marsh by storm-driven high tides.\u00c2\u00a0 We quickly alerted the Cape Cod Mammal Stranding Network at IFAW<\/a> (hotline # 508-743-9548), and we sent them digital images via cell phone.<\/p>\n

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Scavenged Dolphin Carcass off Blackfish Creek<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The dolphin washed ashore at the mouth of Blackfish Creek at the southern edge of the Indian Neck sea wall.\u00c2\u00a0 Predators had scavenged the carcass while it lay on the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pickup Truck Stranded on Lieutenant Island Bridge Outer Cape\u00c2\u00a0weather has been rugged this whole\u00c2\u00a0week.\u00c2\u00a0Wind-driven, non-stop snow\/sleet\/drizzle mix\u00c2\u00a0 pelted the Cape\u00c2\u00a0with little accumulation as temperatures hovered around freezing, day and night.\u00c2\u00a0 Massive wind-assisted tides tossed wrack high into the dunes and flooded bayside roads.\u00c2\u00a0 This workman tried to escape Lieutenant Island late Thursday afternoon, but\u00c2\u00a0got trapped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402,823],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}