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Monday, July 11, 2005

Hurricane Dennis Makes a Visit

this is an audio post - click to play


July 11, 2005
At Fannin's Cafe on Hwy 83 this morning our waitress summed up our experience."We got more wind and rain after it went ashore than before." Everything is getting back to normal. A few limbs blown down in the yard. Everyone, safe and sound.

Sunday 02:00 AM - drizzling rain and very little wind.
06:05 AM - drizzling rain and very little wind. The monotony contrasted with expectations. Beginning to think that the storm though reported is imaginary.
Sunday 08:30 AM

- Higher winds (note the 21 miles per hour on the picture above) and more emphatic rains. Reports suggest that the storm will make land fall near Gulf Breeze, rather than Mobile bay. A strange repeat of Ivan?
Sunday 10:44 AM
Our front yard from the porch.
The rain continues to fall. We are seeing winds of 30-35 miles per hour. The storm is aiming landfall between Pensacola, Florida and Mobile, Alabama. Last week on our way home from Mobile we transversed this area along the coast marveling at the power of Ivan just ten short months ago and here we go again!
Sunday 12:00 Noon
Rain is falling in buckets and the wind is clamoring. The house is groaning a little. Small tree limbs are falling beneath the syacamore in the front side yard. Power has held up well except for one momentary outage of the cable television and high speed internet. Not much to report. http://www.wmmb.com (Channel 13 in Panama City is streaming its coverage to the WWW)
Sunday 12:05 Noon
Check out the Hurricane Dennis photos on FLICKR that people are uploading as the storm happens.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/hurricanedennis/
Sunday 12:45 PM

Click on the picture and watch a short video of Hurricane Dennis's winds from my front porch.
Sunday 2:00 PM

As Dennis sits 30 minutes away from making landfall near Pensacola (about 100 miles from us) one of my cats waits out the storm in the wheel well of my truck.
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Images taken in downtown Defuniak Springs during one of the pre-Dennis thunderstorms that swept through the area on Saturday.. Click on these thumnails to see larger images in my Flickr Photostream.

Saturday 8:30 PM - Waiting for Dennis to arrive, eyes and ears glued to TV, the radio, and the internet.
Saturday10:15 PM - drizzling rain and very little wind.

posted by Axile Himalo at 8:30 PM