Hey wolfie. When they measure hurricane wind speed it's measured in sustained wind speed, not gusts, and it looks like where you are you can expect wind speeds between 75-85, sustained. Looking like it'll make landfall shortly after dark with the worst of it not until shortly before dawn.

https://zoom.earth/storms/beryl-2024/

And I get a bit green just watching them so no way I would do wolfie's job

I would expect wind and tidal surge would be the big issue pushing barges. Lots of sail area to push around likewise for storm surge pushing.

Don't know how those boats are ballasted but the ones I regularly dodged on the warrior were pretty much self righting with weight down low.

Taking on water though is never good for anything that's supposed to float.

Be careful and if something breaks loose steer clear. I've seen barges freewheeling down river on the flood that had broken loose from the port. Not much stops them until they pile up against something solid.

I was on the Coast Guard Cutter Unimak in 1967 and we went through 100 mph winds for half a night. Got thrown out of my rack. Boat was 327 feet long. Waves were so large that we would run down the back side of a tall wave and plow headfirst into the next wave. The second wave would completely engulf our ship, bow to stern. We went over one wave and under the next for hours. The ship shook but held together. Was a WWII seaplane tender the Navy transferred to the CG. Coast Guard used it as a high-endurance weather cutter and later as a training ship.

Red line down is what usually underwater if that helps any. As far as the barges we have another boat as a fleet assist boat Incase stuff gets a bit "western". We're on loads though she its only 6' out the water total where as the empties are 12-16 I think

LOL welcome to the coon man club,,,,
I am supersized there are not depth marks???/

That is a few tons of displacement,,....

Steady 40mph top gust of 50 something so far Looking about like 1.5' chop shes staying at more of a Cat 1 best pic I could get of one of the boats across the way I and apparently we got a good 50% chance of a tornado in the area lol.

Hang in there Wolfie! Thanks for the pics, you are our new River Birch. Stay safe.

So did you survive the night?

Yeah where still hanging on and putting it roll on through . Where doing good but the boats ride up on their sides are getting a hammered

So en d up maxing out at 68mph , lotta rain lil lightning ect every ones ok no barges brokes out the fleet as far as I know so

Did the fried chicken ..end up on the deck ? ...or was it Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches for Dinnah ?

Steak today

Nice ! The ship steady enough to cook a nice meal