We were expecting good weather winds from the east and
fairly consistent, the first four hours went smoothly, we were in the
Chesapeake and were near the confluence of the Chesapeake and the Potomac
river. We were about five miles away from shore ( the boats maximum speed is
about six knots ) when my boss called, she had not been told that I had taken
the day off, she told me that we were about to get hit by a storm. About ten
minutes after this the storm hit. The clouds seemed to just materialize overhead.
By this time we were worried, our boat isn’t big and we didn’t know how she
would hold up in a storm. The wind picked up, gusting up to about forty knots. Waves
up to 5 feet in height. At first we tried to fight it but it was futile. The storm
was too powerful. Then the lighting
came. I am honestly surprised we did not get hit. We almost did, I was coming
back up on deck when the bolt of lighting came down , it was terrifying, the
web of florescent blue. Apparently it struck the water and was very close.
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