...about 15 years ago, when the 5-8 day closure for "routine maintenance" of one of the railroad bridges in Norfolk was scheduled for sometime in early-mid May.... Precisely at the height of the northbound migration of snowbirds running north on the ICW...

I never got caught up in the blockage, but in Coinjock they still talk about that week, where they had scores of boats rafted 6-8 deep, almost totally blocking the canal...

UFB... Was that where you were planning to go?