Thank you for your prayers, and I hope you had a wonderful time in Orange Beach on vacation....after we clean up and rebuild come back! I am trying to think of the good new in all of this...:)I think almost, if not everyone left Orange Beach ahead of the storm....even the "old timers" seemed to sense this was not one to ride out!
I live in Mobile, but am staying in Florence thru the weekend.
My home in west Mobile is fine...trees down in yard and across power lines, but nothing on any houses in the neighborhood. We came thru well under the circumstances.
I've talked to people who've been to Dauphin Island. West end is really bad, as one would expect. But the Ft. Gaines end seems to have come thru much better than we had hoped. The marina is wiped out but the bridge is apparently OK.
I'm really worried about the area north of Mobile, Atmore area. News crews have not gotten up there and the storm track looked pretty wicked where it passed over them. Anyone heard from that area?
I remember the summer after Opal, that the Okaloosa Island beaches were prettier than ever -- the dunes were gone, but the beach was a nice flat pristine white.
Of course the areas where houses and condos had been was a nice flat pristine white too (oops).
We had a great time! My brother was stationed at Keesler in Biloxi in the late 80's and my wife and I visited the area between there and Pensacola several times. This was the first time we'd been back and WOW, what a change! Sure has grown up around there! We definitely plan on going back.