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Post Ivan Part 2

September 17th, 2004 | Category: normal

Liz is alright, but two miles of the westbound lanes on Okaloosa Island are missing, 50 feet of the eastbound lanes are too. Navarre Beach is now cut off from the mainland.

So far I’ve been unable to get a call through to Katie’s family. I just get the rapid tones of a phone system error.

People seem to be saying this was “worse than opal”. Above is a photograph of dozens of soda machines hurled from Navarre Park into the eastbound lanes of U.S. 98. Okaloosa Island’s structures have been, literally, decimated. Those 9/10 not destroyed were likely to have been damaged.

Now begins the cleanup. I’ll post when I hear from Katie’s folks, or hear something of them.

4 Comments so far

  1. Carmen September 17th, 2004 3:46 pm

    Geez… =\

  2. Crunch September 17th, 2004 3:57 pm

    Holy Shyte

  3. Crunch September 17th, 2004 4:38 pm

    Ya know.  I first heard the actual definition of “decimate” on the TV show Monk.

  4. Tempest September 18th, 2004 9:51 am

    Hope everyone you know is OK, and that it doesn’t take several weeks for power to come back.

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