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Hurricane Dennis Arrives Near Pensacola

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Posted on Sun Jul 10, 2005 at 11:51:51 AM EST
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Bump and Update: The Gulf Coast is hunkering down. CNN says the eye wall has made landfall in Fort Walton Beach, Florida in Santa Rosa County. Landfall looks to occur within the next hour devastating the Pensacola area. CNN says It's a category three, 120 miles per hour right now.

CNN's Anderson Cooper is back from London recouping his role from Hurricane Ivan and is down in Pensacola in his rain gear, shouting over the rain and wind.

For personalized late breaking Hurricane Dennis updates, check out the Central Florida Hurricane Center 2005 - it's run by weather hobbyists. For official news, check out the National Hurricane Center or National Weather Service.

Are any talkleft readers in Dennis' path? If so, please keep us updated in the comments.

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    Hurricane Dennis Arrives Near Pensacola | 6 comments (6 topical)
    Re: Hurricane Dennis Arrives Near Pensacola (none / 0) (#4)
    by DawesFred60 on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:52:01 PM EST
    You will see much more of this kind of thing happening. earth is fighting back, long live earth, I can only hope earth win's.

    Re: Hurricane Dennis Arrives Near Pensacola (none / 0) (#5)
    by john horse on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:52:01 PM EST
    Very little damage in Tallahassee. Lots of rain, some heavy winds, and power outage for a few hours. Looks like the worse of this storm is being saved for Pensacola. You've got to feel for them. They've had more than their share of bad weather lately.

    Re: Hurricane Dennis Arrives Near Pensacola (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:00 PM EST
    This just in by e-mail from a friend in the Keys:
    I'm ridin' it out. we will probably get 60-75 mph winds tonight but key west isn't looking good. it blew down the guard towers at gitmo that were rated for 90 mph. wouldn't castro love to have those trained muslims if they escaped. the electricity will go soon but the phone lines usually stay on. this is my 6th hurricane. come on down for the next one.


    Re: Hurricane Dennis Arrives Near Pensacola (none / 0) (#2)
    by roger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:02 PM EST
    Three last year. I hope that we dont get this one

    Re: Hurricane Dennis Arrives Near Pensacola (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:02 PM EST
    Lots of wind and rain off and on all night--at one point all the power went off at my home in the south of Miami-Dade County for awhile, and was flickering on and off thereafter for about ten minutes. This morning I just had another power blink. Lots of branches down--driving home from the law office after 10 last night on US 1, it was "middle of the road" time, as the left lane of the three lanes southbound (the east side of the road, basically) was likely to have the most palm fronds and branches in it, and the right lane had the deeper puddles. The best web site to look at for hurricane information and tracking is the Sun-Sentinel newspaper weather center, I find. There are still sustained winds of tropical storm strength (39 to 72 miles per hour) on the northern edge of Cuba, yet the eye of the hurricane is now up west of Key West, and tropical storm winds are reaching all the way up the west coast of Florida to past Ft. Myers--so winds over 40 m.p.h. are now blowing all the time over hundreds of miles of land and sea--awesome and awful=awe-inspiring. We are having tornado warnings and watches for two-thirds of Florida today. Here at home I had power for the night, and have it this morning--the electricity is off for more than 100,000 homes in South Florida, including most or all of the Florida Keys. Be thankful you don't live where this storm is coming to land--after last year, hurricanes are no longer an excuse to party in Florida, if they ever really were. And consider pushing for national support for faster home restoration after storms, especially for the poor, handicapped and elderly--in the Florida panhandle, people are still living under blue tarps from Hurricane Ivan's landing last year, and so more people are needing to evacuate even if not living directly in the path--they have no true shelter in their own homes. Amazing that we can't find the resources to employ people in restoration efforts for those who are truly needy. All the people and material deployed overseas, I suppose.

    Re: Hurricane Dennis Arrives Near Pensacola (none / 0) (#6)
    by MikeDitto on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:01:03 PM EST
    My uncle lives in Ft. Walton. The wife and kids drove up to Macon, GA to relatives, but he's riding it out in his boarded-up house. His cell phone was working up until about an hour ago, but now it goes right to voice mail, so the power must be out at all the cell towers near him.

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