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Five Years Later: Watch Hurricane Ivan Move Across North Escambia
September 16, 2009
The image above shows Hurricane Ivan a at 4:01 a.m. on September 16, 2004. Note that North Escambia is on the northeastern edge of the hurricane’s eye. To see an animated version of this radar image to watch the landfall, click the image above. Radar estimates indicated sustained winds about 100 mph with higher guests about 4 a.m.
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7 Responses to “Five Years Later: Watch Hurricane Ivan Move Across North Escambia”
All of you are right. I hope to never see anything like that ever again. There were over 400 trees down on Pineville road in just three miles. It looked like someone had dumped pick-up sticks out. We were without power for 17 days. But I also saw houses that were not touched by the wind next to barns that looked like a pile of tin and 2-by-4’s. We were all blessed. God is good!
Janice Parker
We ate popcorn during Frederick. We made ice cream on the front porch when Elena blew through. When Opal came calling, everybody peeped out the windows and doors, oohing and aahing at the wind.
Then Ivan came. And we experienced something that we didn’t know was possible this far inland (Flomaton).
I guess we’ll never know… but professionals with years of experience recorded gusts up to 145mph for four hours in Brewton. Gusts of 100mph were reported in Camden – over 100 miles inland. (The weather service discounted those wind speeds because it wasn’t their instruments that recorded them.)
100mph winds on the coastline at landfall just don’t explain the terror we experienced inland that night. I had two 8 foot tall blueberry bushes in the backyard that were completely uprooted and taken away by the storm. I don’t think you could have pulled them up with a pick-up truck, but Ivan took them! And out of 12 huge oak trees in the yard, not one was left standing. But our house was not touched. Trees down on all four sides in different directions, all falling away from the house. God truly blessed us that night… and I give Him the glory, honor and praise.
I feel the same way, I was terrified and still say I will be the first to head for the hills if we ever have another one like it headed this way. I have been in Pensacola-Cantonment all of my life and have never seen any thing like it and hope to never again.
I agree that it was the longest night of my life. Five years later and it still brings back bad memories – we had no clue what we were getting up to that morning. I am thankful for my many blessings, but it taught me that all the things you collect over the years is “just stuff”. It can be gone in a moment.
One of the most frightening and longest nights of my life. I hope I never have to face that again.
I agree. I lived near downtown Pensacola during Hurricane Fredrick and just never considered leaving for a hurrincane. Ivan truley put a new spin on things.
One of the scariest things I have lived through.