“Alabama and Mississippi were completely unscathed!”
That’s always been one of the great under-reported stories about Katrina - the damage to the MS and AL Gulf Coast. The damage there was absolutely beyond belief and it didn’t get 1/10th of the coverage that NO did.
Ft Myers Beach pier still has an operational webcam. 3 idiots in the surf. One went to end of pier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwTGxbOjZhQ
There’s a webcam in Plant City, about 30 miles east of Tampa.
It’s not as cool as one of the webcams facing the water - but as Ian approaches, you can see the changes in the weather.
Also, for those of you who like trains, it’s on a diamond where two CSX lines out of Tampa converge there. as of this morning, CSX was still running trains in and out of Tampa.
I can’t post the link here because my work computer has blocked YouTube - but if you go to a search engine and type in PLANT CITY WEBCAM, you’ll see it.
The AL MS Katrina damage was from the storm, not caused by corrupt building practices like New Orleans.