Well the weather did end up being kick ass but not in the way I had in mind! A storm came in around dusk and brought ~50 mph winds. Fairview is located out on the Potomac and that's a very large open body of water. When the wind shifts and comes down the river it gets tremendous wave action. I was taking on 5-6' waves where I was anchored in about 12' of water. As you can imagine, everyone drinking all day and well over 1000 boats packed in a relatively small area all hell broke loose. I saw motoryachts getting slammed into the seawall, boats drifting into raftups and lots of anchors being tangled up / cut etc. Several boats were left unattended which is just crazy! Small boats that took off as the storm began took on lots of water and their bilge pumps couldn't keep up. I'm surprised the local media hasn't picked up but I imagine they will. They did give adequate warnings but many were so drunk and/or wanted to try to ride it out to catch the fireworks. I saw some pics of some damaged boats on clubsearay.com
Two deaths were from being crushed b/t boats and one girl had her leg severely severed she fell under a boat and it was evidently making contact with the bottom from the waves, she didn't make it
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