#ThrowbackThursday If any of you have scrolled through photos or news of St. Augustine, you have probably come across pictures and videos of the flooding that occurs downtown during hurricanes, tropical storms and nor’easters. 📸This photo shows Coasties (Coast Guardsmen) standing in the flood water on Bay Street (Avenida Menendez) in downtown St Augustine, Florida during the aftermath of a hurricane in the 1940s. The Ponce de Leon Hotel (Flagler College) was a training station for the Coast Guard during WW2, and there were also Coast Guardsmen stationed at the St Augustine Lighthouse. We have interviews with some of the individuals who were stationed here during this 1944 hurricane. In an interview, one recalled climbing to the top of the lighthouse during this hurricane to give a weather report every 15 minutes. With wind speeds that could be upwards of around 150 mph, it is safe to say that’s way higher than our current limit for letting people out onto the top of the lighthou...