Fate of the Phantom

On a blustery January day, a group of out-of-town visitors gathered near the Phantom of the Aqua, the massive beached sailboat that has become something of a semi-permanent landmark here. The visitors talked amongst themselves, sharing lore and stories they'd heard about the boat, and wondered what would happen to it.

Nate marches across US East Coast, dumping heavy rains

Nate slogged its way across the U.S. East Coast on Monday, dumping heavy rains and bringing gusty winds to inland states as a tropical depression, a day after Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Nate spared the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by a series of hurricanes that hit the southern U.S. and Caribbean in recent weeks.

A weakened Nate brings flooding, power outages to Gulf Coast

Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast before weakening rapidly Sunday, sparing the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by a series of hurricanes that hit the southern U.S. and Caribbean in recent weeks. Nate - the first hurricane to make landfall in Mississippi since Katrina in 2005 - quickly lost strength, with its winds diminishing to a tropical depression as it pushed northward into Alabama and toward Georgia with heavy rain.

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Friends, relatives and an outpouring of grievers gathered in California to celebrate the life of a man who died shielding his wife during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Friends, relatives and an outpouring of grievers gathered in California to celebrate the life of a man who died shielding his wife during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

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Where's Weinstein? 'Cowardly' SNL comes under fire for ignoring movie mogul's sex abuse scandal as row grows over liberal Hollywood's 'wall of silence' around the powerful Democrat donor Vegas gunman had a note calculating bullet trajectories so he could kill as many people as possible and he drove into the Nevada desert to practice shooting in the days leading up to the attack America falls out of love with football: Shock study sees NFL drop below baseball in the popularity stakes for the first time in decades Hurricane Nate makes second landfall slamming into the Gulf Coast leaving thousands without power and bringing up to 11-feet of flooding 'I have been targeted with this false allegation': Nelly proclaims he is 'completely innocent' after being released following rape arrest Trump threatens military action on North Korea: President dismisses diplomacy and says 'only one thing will ... (more)

Hurricane Nate makes landfall at mouth of Mississippi River

Red flags fly at Navarre Beach, Florida indicating that people should not swim in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Nate approaches the Gulf Coast, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. This enhanced infrared satellite image made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Nate in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017 at 2:15 p.m. EDT.

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Map tracks the forecast and positioning outlook for Hurricane Nate; 2c x 6 inches; 96.3 mm x 152 mm; . Brenda Kent jumps on her boat as she and her husband leave the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor in Biloxi, Miss., on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 to take the boat up river in advance of Tropical Storm Nate.