Posted on 10/15/2018 8:33:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
I have been through Elena (85), Erin and Opal (95), Ivan (04) and Dennis (05), and NOTHING COMPARES TO THIS!......................
Everyone should take a sight seeing trip down there as soon as possible. What could possibly be hurt by a few thousand more vehicles on the road in a hurricane devastated area?
To fellow Alabamians and others who live in tornado prone areas, I heard from my family who moved to near Panama City that the damage is similar to a tornado only more widespread. He said it’s like after a tornado when everybody is amazed how many houses can be completely destroyed while houses across the street have little more than a mailbox blown away and a few roofing shingles missing. It’s the same with the hurricane only it’s entire blocks and suburbs destroyed, while nearby suburbs are just fine.
My thoughts exactly.
The worst I have seen were typhoons in the Pacific in eighty two. Hugo was pretty bad too, but I was on the southern edge.
I lost everything in Andrew (stored at Homestead) and then again everything in Katrina. People cannot FATHOM this sort of devastation. You cant begin to imagine the costs associated with simply becoming a city again. I hope that they will begin to bring in the Katrina cottages and travel trailers for people soon. There simply isn’t anywhere for folks to go in the effected towns. I’m having some PTSD symptoms from this.
For hurricane Florence here in Wilmington,NC, 35 miles inland was much worse due to flooding.
A major USAF base is destroyed by a Hurricane and closed and years later another one is basically destroyed just the same with billions of dollars in aircraft at risk. Hurricanes wipe out communities as if a nuke were detonated but buildings are rebuilt rapidly and things return to “normal” until the next Hurricane. It is a curious way to live and as far as the Air Force base and other building not being up to code to withstand Hurricanes, a major lapse in judgement and pure idiocy.
Newer buildings, those built since Andrew and Katrina, that have the 140 MPH standard in place, were the least damaged.
But a tornado will destroy anything, no matter the standard.
I would say that the buildings on Tyndall were mostly built in the 60’s and 70’s under the old 120 MPH standard if even that....................
What a report! I would want to get out of town until the power is back on or at least getting there. Leave my house behind with all kinds of plywood tacked on saying “Looters will be shot on sight”
Some looters were shot overnight...................
For real?
Looting leads to deadly shooting in Panama City following Michael:
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/looter-in-panama-city-shot-and-killed-by-authorities/1522803371
For real....................
Glad those you care about are OK
My heart goes out to everyone affected by the storm...the pictures I saw are disturbing and devastating. I could not even imagine life STOPPING as it has for these people only to find their property gone or ruined....It will take many a year or so to get back on their feet. Horrible...
Think..............suddenly you find yourself living in the 1870’s..................No electricity, no running water, no flushing toilets, no streetlights, no TV, Radio, Telephone, Cell Phone or Internet...................
The moral here is that in a time of hurricane chaos don’t loot your Heineken beer, other liquor, flat screen TVs and other stuff in Panama City. It can get you killed.
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