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Storms Down Trees, Overturn Trailer, Cause Flooding
December 3, 2009
Storms that roared through the area Wednesday left some damage.
In Cantonment, a tree fell onto a garage on in the 2000 block of Country Place Circle. The tree damaged the roof over the garage, and it caused cracks to appear in walls of he home.
On Kinzie Lane in Enon, the wind flipped an unanchored trailer upside down. The 50-foot trailer was an old office that Mark Pitts was turning into a fish camp home. The trailer came to rest on its roof, stopped by a set of monkey bars (pictured left).
“It is amazing that our home is less than 25 feet from this and the things around it that were untouched,” Pitts said. “I never expected this out of a thunderstorm.”
Residents from areas that include Molino, Walnut Hill, Canoe and Bratt contacted NorthEscambia.com to report other impacts from the storm that included downed trees, damaged lawn furniture and other minor damage. Many residents lost power, with Gulf Power reporting as many as 8,000 Escambia County residents without power early Wednesday morning.
Numerous roads across the area were reported flooded. Flooding shut down Highway 29 at Kingsfield Road for several hours. Water covered the roadway and even caused some of the lumber at Pensacola Salvage to float away.
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2 Responses to “Storms Down Trees, Overturn Trailer, Cause Flooding”
This is what happens when we tear down paradise in order to build parking lots.
Highway 29 just north Kingsfield road floods every time that there is a big thunderstorm, which happens quite often around here. What makes this a disturbing problem is that this is the only true north bound evacuation route out of Pensacola and it becomes paralyzed with every storm while the state and county sit on their hands year after year doing nothing to correct it. Wake up FDOT and BOCC, and do something proactive for a change by fixing this!