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Originally Posted by whitekat
figured the landing would close after the old man would die.
i used to fish out of his landing....he would collect his 5 bucks himself.
it was a few months after the hurricane , the last time i seen him, and used his launch.
he told me,...... him and the wife tried to ride it out.
rescue had to come get them.. me and momma had to be taken out of
this tree....he was prob in his late 70, said momma was big to get up in
the tree, he had to push her up.
i planted this tree 30 years ago.
he had his hand on it. made me want to cry. rip old man
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I had been going there since i was a kid. He passed away in August of '08 we put in the morning he passed. From what i was told is that his kids did not want the hassle of maintaining it.