ScrubJ

After living through five days of rain courtesy of tropical storm Fay the weekend cleared for a ride. Our group ride runs on A1A between the Indian River and the Atlantic Ocean. As their dwellings had been flooded out by the 12 inches or so of rain we had, the land crabs were out in full force. We spent quite a bit of effort trying to dodge the carcasses of the dead ones run over by cars and the suicidal attacks on our wheels by the living. Coming on to their mating season this situation isn't going to get any better I guess.

Austin in So IL

Wow. That could've been taken wrong.

aidanpryde18

I guess that's better than land sharks

Mazama

I'm guessing it will start stinking soon over there.

ScrubJ

ScrubJ

I'm sure you know the smell well. How well did you make out during the storm?

Aside from the crabs, today's ride (different route) got slowed down some by flooded areas along Old Dixie.

ScrubJ

Candygram

teacherbill

Saw a couple of them running, stalking on-coming cars on US1 after church. Didn't hang around to see how well the stalkers made out.

Indie

Poor little buggers. When I was a kid and I lived on a lake in cottage country, the highways were always covered with frogs after a rain. I'm glad I didn't ride my bike on the pavement back then.

westlafadeaway

CNN just ran a piece of a 6 bike-car accident by the pier in Miami (I could see a cruise ship in the background). Is that by you? Something about the bikes doing something and not seeing the taxi, and just at that time the taxi driver fell asleep at the wheel and took them all down. Someone went through the front window.

And yes, I anticipated this thread to about you biking to a local brothel.

Neil_B

Yum. Nothing beats a Maryland crabcake.

Jynx

Man I would freak out if I saw something like this.

Indie

Good grief. The sight of arthropods doesn't freak me out, even in large numbers, but hearing their little shells crack under tires would make me want to run out and scoop them all up.

That said, are they edible? I don't eat meat myself, but if someone went out and took a bunch for food it would at least be less wasteful than letting them all get flattened. Or is this breeding season so you don't want to be thinning the population at this time?

smsimpson83

I am from Sanford, FL Originally (living in Nashville now) I had the misfortune of taking my vacation to visit my family during Fay. It rained the whole week practically. Lots of rain in my town... some streets flooded and my sisters work (a law office owned by a guy my parents went to church with) was flooded... All my family's property was ok though, thank god.

ScrubJ

I don't think you'd like these crabby patties

We do have blue crabs here in Florida, the land crabs are quite different.

ScrubJ

The locals don't eat them but, the Haitians seem to enjoy them. Technically they are a protected specie IIRC but that doesn't seem to stop the islanders. As I understand it, they need to be put in clean water and allowed to flush the mud (they live in mud burrows along the shoreline) from their system before you would want to eat them.

ScrubJ

Nope, I live about half way up the coast from Miami. Missed the story, hope everyone was OK includin the rider who went through the windshield.

Would that be the Cat4 Cat House or Bob's Biker Barn and Brothel?

ScrubJ

Now, imagine that on a two lane road.

v1k1ng1001

Wogster

I would figure if 4,294,967,296 crabs start to cross, about 8 make it to the other side. If this is a common occurrence, then what would probably help is a crab crossing, could be implemented like a drain pipe, that goes from one side of the road to the other, in several places, to give the crabs somewhere to cross under the road, rather then over the road.

bcc

That's a very specific choice of number...

arleban

well, +/- 2.

Wogster

Yeah do you know the significance of that number? Hint, IT guys should know it...

Tom Stormcrowe

integer overflow?

bautieri

That's the limitation of unique addresses using IPv4.

I still want to see this land crab march in person.