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Heavy rain and flooding are expected as Hurricane Idalia barrels across southeast Georgia toward the coast.. The powerful storm — packing maximum sustained 120-mph winds — made landfall in ...
Tybee Island is a city and a barrier island in Chatham County, Georgia, 18 miles (29 km) east of Savannah. The name "Tybee Island" is used for both the island and the city, but geographically they are not identical: only part of the island's territory lies within the city. The island is Georgia's easternmost point.
Tybee Island Light is a lighthouse next to the Savannah River Entrance, on the northeast end of Tybee Island, Georgia. It is one of seven surviving colonial era lighthouse towers, though highly modified in the mid 1800s.
It is the location of a hydrogen bomb lost by a B-47 Stratojet bomber in 1958. This lost hydrogen bomb is also known as the Tybee Bomb.On the night of February 5, 1958, a B-47 Stratojet bomber carrying a hydrogen bomb on a night training flight off the Georgia coast collided with an F-86 Saberjet fighter at 36,000 feet.
Ominous storm clouds briefly blocked out the sunshine, but many beachgoers continued to enjoy the beach on Saturday May, 25, 2024 at the start of Memorial Day weekend on Tybee Island, GA.
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Tybee National Wildlife Refuge Located in the mouth of the Savannah River , the 100-acre (0.40 km 2 ) refuge began as a 1-acre (4,000 m 2 ) oyster shoal, Oysterbed Island, used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a spoil disposal site to support their mandated harbor dredging activity.
The Tybee Island Polar Plunge of 2012 was notable for making it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the “largest gathering of people wearing swim caps” when 2,049 of the 2,400 ...