Sorry it took me so long to reply. We've been busy all day trying to get a hold of them. We've not heard from them since 10 30 this morning. We're a bit concerned naturally. My parents are going down there Saturday morning even if we don't hear from them. They are part of a disaster relief team and were supposed to go down there on Sept 25 but now that it's personal, they're going earlier.
They live in West Pensacola. They live off of Fairfield. Do you know where that is? It's been a couple of years since I've been there and the best I can remember is when you're on Fairfield coming from Hwy 29 going west, their neighborhood is right before you get to that split to go to the base and the beach. I just remember seeing signs saying Eglin and Pcola Beach.
Oh, btw, I have heard more since my last post. If I can remember correctly, the last I posted was everyone was okay but couldn't see the damage just yet. Well, at 10 30 am, we got a report from them and they said there was some damage on my aunt's roof. Her next door neighbor's house was damaged badly. The cousin who is the retired Marine with very bad rheumatoid arthritis lost his pool. That pool was his prized possession. They installed it for his therapy. All of their trees are down. Luckily none of the trees fell on their houses. But everyone is okay as of 10 30 this am. We have not been able to contact them on their cell phones since this am. It's nervewracking especially knowing that the storm wasn't really over til this afternoon.
While typing this out, I just remembered more specifically about where this neighborhood is. That split I was talking about, once you go towards the beach, you're on 9th Street going all the way down to where you get to this curve and you go under a small bridge and then you get ready to get on the Three Mile Bridge. God, I love that Three Mile Bridge.
I live in Knoxville and yes, we are getting slammed. At five pm this afternoon they had already closed our schools even some colleges for tomorrow. Luckily, we live on high ground so we shouldn't get much flooding however, we have trees all around us but we should be okay. The worst of it is supposed to hit us sometime late tonite.