[From the Northwest Florida Daily News, Sept. 20, Ft. Walton: Navigational Aids Status]
In the meantime, the Coast Guard has established a 500-foot security zone around all barrier islands from the Florida-Alabama state line to Destin Pass, about 50 miles east of Pensacola, to try to keep recreational boaters and rubberneckers away.
That is very interesting. It's not like recreational boaters and rubber neckers on the water would be interfering with highway traffic or recovery operations.
And terrorists would not be interested in devastating a region that is already devastated.
The only reason I can think of is that looters are coming in by water, since it is so hard to get there by land at this point.
