Posted on 09/17/2004 7:04:29 AM PDT by commish
Since we have had numerous FREEPERS in the area effected by Hurrican Ivan, I thought it would be good to start a thread for FREEPERS to check in.
Please place any damage reports, requests for assistance, etc here.
Midday Saturday, and still no check-in from blam. Keeping him in our prayers--Godspeed.
There is a list of videos on the right hand side. I believe you can see the Fort Morgan area in them. They don't have voice overs, so you have to look for landmarks.
As to Fort Morgan, there have been few reports given, that I've heard. Mostly underwater. The video showed those places looking like houseboats, 2 days ago. I hope the water has gone down. They saw the sea took about a mile or mile and a half of Gulf Shores, back. I've read they are going to have to get cartographers to replot the place.
The title of the video was "authorities fly over area," I think. I'll go look and make sure they are still there and available.
I heard from a friend, who has a friend, who lives half way down Fort Morgan Road. She was fine. Had some roof damage, etc., but was okay. I hope this helps.
CWW checking in from Montgomery. No power for us yet. Lot's of trees down in Old Cloverdale and around Huntington College. Some houses damaged. Friends homes and condos at Orange Beach and Perdido Key are wiped off the map. Very sad. But hope endures.
Yikes! Heads up, Louie. The Geers may have lost their place (hope not).
Well-Known Montgomery Woman, Two Others Killed by Carbon Monoxide from Generator
The effects of Hurricane Ivan have killed three women in East Montgomery -- one of them well-known philanthropist Ida Belle Young.
On Friday morning, a groundskeeper found the bodies of Young, 85, Edwina Capleton, 60, and Eva Trawick, 50. Capleton was Young's caretaker while Trawick was a nurse.
I am looking for news about Grayton Beach, Seaside, Seagrove, Watercolor area.
My beach home is in Seacrest - between Seagrove and Rosemary Beach. There was mild to moderate damage there. Beach erosion is just horrible. Really cut into the dune line. No power but sometimes phones work. Stairway to beach is gone but home is just fine. Seaside, Watersound, Watercoler had mild damage, if any. Heard, this is rumor, that in Dune Allen along the west end of Highway 30A there were some homes lost. As you may know, it is low in that area. I have not seen one picture of South Walton anywhere. Maybe the 'powers that be' are keeping the media outside. Money talks.
Sad news ..Ida Belle Young Park is just a couple miles down the road from my house. She was a Grand Old Dame cut from the old Southron cloth.
Major Beach Erosion Causing Problems at Cape San Blas
Ivan's storm surge caused tremendous erosion problems at Cape San Blas outside of Port St. Joe. Some of the exclusive waterfront homes there have gone into the Gulf.
Two of the homes, worth close to a million dollars each, were apparently built too close to the water and collapsed and fell in.
Several other homes at the Cape have extreme foundation erosion and will probably have to be condemned.
The Cape San Blas homes were almost inaccessible after the storm and some residents say there is a lesson to be learned here, that Mother Nature does not want us to build to close to the Gulf of Mexico; build behind the dunes.
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Got to talk to my sister in Summerdale, AL this morning. The house has two holes in the roof and the upper part of the chimney collapsed but the horses are all alive and in relatively good condition and the fences did okay. They have power and water but not in abundance.
Turns out my mother in Fairhope slept through the hurricane (a fringe benefit of being an octagenarian) and the nursing home suffered little damage.
Thanks, everyone, for your thoughts and prayers.
all --Blam has checked in on the Alabama page. One of the last ones we were looking for :-)
Just got my power back. We're all okay, doggies too. We lost the lake house by the bay...fortunately, I moved out of there this past April. My present residence and rental houses made it through with a minimum of damage (no insurance claims) and am grateful that we didn't have the full force of the storm here. Glad to be back.
Thank you. I'm back, see my post above.
No, but, I heard that every house on the west end was totaled or severly damaged.
I'm worried about Eagle Eye he is from the Pensacola area and he is presently in Iraq. Last time I spoke with him he had sent his family to Montgomery. Has anyone heard from him?
Got power in the Dalraida area around 2:00PM. Ahhhhh...air conditioning.
Whew! Glad to hear you are safe, and damage is minimal for your property. That "jog to the right" saved a lot of folks west of the FL panhandle.
What? Worried about me? (sniff) I am so touched....lol!
Family is making a road trip out of it. They've gone from Montgomery to Tuscaloosa to Santoa Rosa county to heck the house and now at Tallahassee waiting for some electricity back home.
House is ok, fence is not. Found the lost cat that didn't want to evacuate. Oh well, can't have everything go right.
Okay, Thanks.
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