Posted on 09/18/2004 7:25:51 AM PDT by Eagle Eye
President praises resilience, neighborliness of storm-damaged communities
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/blogs/stormteam/2004/09/president-praises-resilience.html
Your black humor is noted...and appreciated.
Good to have you back online.
My family decided that they're headed back tomorrow even if hte power is still off. Hopefully it will get back on today, some of the area has it, our doesn't.
Be really careful at the 4-way stop intersections, the idiots blow right thru 'em. There've been lots of wrecks.
It will still be weeks before I can possibly get back to the area, so the 4 ways ought to be controlled by then.
How did the area behind the walmart fare?
And I've hear two sories about the high school, one that the lost the roof to the gym, the other than they also lost the roof to the cafeteria. Know anything?
This may help on the second question:
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/blogs/stormteam/2004/09/need-to-know-schools.html
I just got back in to Austin from P-Cola, I'm tired and jumping in w/out reading all (sorry). I'll catch up more and post more Sunday.
I got in to P-Cola Sunday night and didn't recognize the Pine Forest road area at all. Many, many trees down ALL over the entire area. I was in Gulf Breeze, Cantonment, downtown and the Nine Mile road area. Damage along the water/coast was from the storm surge and further in land there seemed to have been tornados all over the place.
Huge pine tree snapped off 80 feet up or sanapped off at the base and some were just pushed over and twisted at the base, huge oaks were up rooted. In one yard (1 acre lot) we ended up with a pile of wood stacked up the entire 150+ foot length of the front that was about 7 feet tall.
I have some really good pictures I want to show everyone but I don't have a host location, and I'm too tired right now to mess with it. Freep mail me with a real email address and I'll email them to you later Sunday.
Everyone HAS to see the pictures of this one house in Gulf Breeze. I was driving through looking for people who needed generators (I fit 6 5.5kw generators in my Durango) or trees cut up. The amount of damage was starting to really get to me, just thinking of how devastating it must be to the families there. Then I saw two late teen girls in their front yard painting the trunk of a HUGE old oak that fell across the front yard. The tree was laying there facing the street and their art work could be read like a billboard. They painted a base coad of white and then painted "VOTE BUSH '04"!!!! I had to stop and get pictures. Those kids were awesome! It turns out that they had been pen pals to about 1,200 soldiers in Iraq and some of the soldiers were now there helping with the recovery efforts.
More later... I need some sleep.
Wow. Thanks. I don't have a host site but I'll freepmail you an email.
My family promised to send me some photos they took of the house, yard and neighborhood they don't have emial up yet (cable is still out, just got electicity beck Friday) so I still rely on the PNJ and their unbelievable photo galleries.
I know this is a little late (I'm posting this on Oct 21st, lol!) I only just now discovered this thread when I searched "Pensacola"
I am a native Pensacolian, and still living here. I cannot begin to tell you how much it means to me that there are so many caring people in this country (and around the world too--we had power crews from Quebec!) who have helped us so much during this catastrophe. May God bless you all abundantly for your generous and loving hearts. Reading your posts brought me to tears, because although we were very fortunate to only lose our part of our privacy fence and back yard shed, so MANY people have lost their homes and in some cases their livelihood. But I have a feeling most of those have found work elsewhere, since there's so much to be done around here now. ;)
I just wanted to say thank you. If you are (or were) thinking about vacationing here in Pensacola, please don't change your plans! We are recovering marvelously (with a lot of help from our friends) , and would love to see visitors very soon. Pensacola has a wonderful, strong spirit and we will (and are) coming back!
Thanks so much, Freepers (and lurkers)! I appreciate it.
Hi,
I live in Pensacola too.(southwest Esc. county) I've also heard there's been looting in the Grande Lagoon area, so much so that the owners are having to stay on their properties at night without power.
There's a special place in Hell I think for those who steal from people who have already suffered so much.
One year anniversary bumps.
Ivan, Amelia, Dennis, Katrina...all in the last 12 months.
http://pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
One year later we're still fixing things. Still hundreds of blue roofs to replace and property to clear.
My place would be OK if the storms would let me get my privacy fence fixed, my neighbor & I have stood it back up 3 times now. I'm thinking of hinges!
Denis just blew my gates off the hinges!
I learned my leason from Ivan and knocked the pins out of my gate hinges, layed 'em in the yard.
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