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To: rustbucket
It was the intention of General BRAGG to make an attack upon Pickens on Friday night,

Drove thru Pensacola Beach on my way to Cape San Blas, FL, just to see what it is like after the wake of Hurricane Dennis (I think). It is "all played out", let the yankee's have it.
266 posted on 07/08/2006 12:58:01 PM PDT by smug (Tanstaafl)
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To: smug

We took a road trip along that coast in May and spent a night in Navarro. My intention had been to visit Fort Pickens and buy books there about local history. However, my trip had been delayed by a day, and I wasn't able to make it to Fort Pickens.

We did drive past Cape San Blas on our way east along the coast.

I had been along the upper Florida coast a year earlier, and hurricane damage was much more in evidence then. Some recovery has been made.

Thirty to forty years ago that coast was much less developed than now and probably for good reason -- hurricanes seem to prefer going across that section of coast to get from the Gulf to the Atlantic. Beautiful coast though.

I was surprised on my most recent trip to find very little rebuilding along the Mississippi coast next to the coast. House ruins had been bulldozed down, leaving blocks and blocks of foundation after foundation. Jefferson Davis' home still stands, but was damaged.


273 posted on 07/08/2006 1:20:53 PM PDT by rustbucket
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