It's sooooo hottttt!!!!!!!!! The heat index is like over 100!!!!
The power is out. I'm bored out of my mind, so I'm using the battery for my laptop...OMG I feel like my skin is cooking & my blood is boiling.
Dennis came ashore on the barrier island between P'cola Beach & Navarre Beach....since that's an area of about 10 miles of sand and sand (it's not a residental or business area), no one lives out there really, so technically the town where it made landfall is uhhh mine, Gulf Breeze/Midway/Oriole Beach.
The winds started realllly picking up around 2pm....and we got into the eyewall around 2:20pm....the northend of the eyewall was thee worst. 120mph sounded like the wind was whistling against the house, seriously! It was weird... The power box on the other side of the street started sparking the the power inside the house started flickering on & off. Since it was such a condense storm with hurricane force winds near the eyewall that extends from the center out 40 miles & the rest of storm was just tropical force winds, it was nothing like Ivan. Ivan's hurricane force winds were like over 100 miles from the center or something like that... Around 2:30pm, the power box exploded & started smoking & releasing a bunch of sparks that looked like fireworks in all the wind...that was scary coz we thought it would bust up in flames or something and of course, the fire dept isn't gonna respond in a raging hurricane. A tornado came thru the backyard. Then the calm eye came around 3pm...The southend of the eyewall wasn't as bad though...that was good.
Sooo the result?
The back of my house is like completely smashed, destroyed, ruined, devestated, obliterated, demolished, and every other word you can think of calling as flat as a pancake. Our roof is wrecked with missing shingles and it is causing leaks within the house. There's leaks at the windows for some odd reason. There's a lot of debris from other houses that landed into our property...there's a trampoline stuck in the tree. The metal shed is completely trashed, like it came off of it's foundation. Trees are slit in half. Some trees in the neighborhood have been uprooted. At least we never lost any water pressure and the water was never contaminated like how Ivan did it. But we don't have any hot water, so it's cold water showers...ewwww... And we have the landline & so that's how I'm online... Oh one of our columns on the front part of the house almost came out underneath all that weight...gosh it was that windy. If that came out, like half of the front of our house would be sagging on one side or something...i'm not even sure how my house is designed around the columns..
There is no power anywhere in Gulf Breeze. My neighborhood is entirely dark, PITCH BLACK. No street lamps, no nothing in my subdivision. In town, the street lights are out, so everyone has to treat them like 4 way stops. There's already a fatality coz a driver blazed thru an intersection. Totally stupid and sad at the same time. It's completely black in town, it's awful & scary like a ghost town... I hate it... the only light is from headlights...that is if ur even on the streets. Curfew ended this morning at noon. And curfew is from dusk til dawn due to all this darkness. The only gas station with gas is the WalMart one and the lines are ridiculously long like a snake thru the the WalMart parking lot.
Grrr....I want the power back on!!!! There were some places during Ivan that didn't get power until 3.5 weeks later... We did loose the phone line for a couple hours though. Over 100,000 Gulf Power customers are out of power in Escambia, 56,000 in Santa Rosa (my county), 64,000 in Okalossa county. So basically, we did better this time than Ivan... coz with Ivan, he moved like ridiculously slow and such a huge 'cane force field & even larger tropical storm force field; we were stuck in 100+winds for over 10 hrs straight....and with Dennis, we were only in 100+winds for about 45 mins. Plus Dennis was moving at 18mph too. So thankfully it was went by really fast. It was scary going to bed on Sat night when it was 105mph, and waking up on Sun morning at 8am and it was 145mph...thankfully Cindy's cold rain water from the Gulf of Mexico cooled it down to 120mph right before landfall.
PS: there is nothing like ice cubes on your skin...
PSS: alright, thee best news, my Ethics class has been canceled UNTIL AT LEAST NEXT MONDAY!!!! hopefully class won't be extended at the end of the semester.
So everyone pray that next storm spinning out there now doesn't hit here...out of the first 4 named storms, 3 of them have aimed here along the Emerald Gulf Coast...
PSS: it's tooooo hottttt....I can't stand it...
PSSS: Well the scary part in all of this was def when we went to bed the night before at around 2AM and Dennis had left Cuba a couple of hrs ago, so it was down to like 105 mph...I wake up at around 4:30AM CT meaning that the thing was released at 4am ct/5am et, and it had sky rocketed to 170mph...and we all like flipped out because by then landfall was projected tomorrow afternoon, but b/c of Cindy's rain had cooled the water, as it got further into the Gulf, the cold water cooled it down to 120mph THANKFULLY...
Dennis came ashore on the barrier island between P'cola Beach & Navarre Beach....since that's an area of about 10 miles of sand and sand (it's not a residental or business area), no one lives out there really, so technically the town where it made landfall is uhhh mine, Gulf Breeze/Midway/Oriole Beach.
The winds started realllly picking up around 2pm....and we got into the eyewall around 2:20pm....the northend of the eyewall was thee worst. 120mph sounded like the wind was whistling against the house, seriously! It was weird... The power box on the other side of the street started sparking the the power inside the house started flickering on & off. Since it was such a condense storm with hurricane force winds near the eyewall that extends from the center out 40 miles & the rest of storm was just tropical force winds, it was nothing like Ivan. Ivan's hurricane force winds were like over 100 miles from the center or something like that... Around 2:30pm, the power box exploded & started smoking & releasing a bunch of sparks that looked like fireworks in all the wind...that was scary coz we thought it would bust up in flames or something and of course, the fire dept isn't gonna respond in a raging hurricane. A tornado came thru the backyard. Then the calm eye came around 3pm...The southend of the eyewall wasn't as bad though...that was good.
Sooo the result?
The back of my house is like completely smashed, destroyed, ruined, devestated, obliterated, demolished, and every other word you can think of calling as flat as a pancake. Our roof is wrecked with missing shingles and it is causing leaks within the house. There's leaks at the windows for some odd reason. There's a lot of debris from other houses that landed into our property...there's a trampoline stuck in the tree. The metal shed is completely trashed, like it came off of it's foundation. Trees are slit in half. Some trees in the neighborhood have been uprooted. At least we never lost any water pressure and the water was never contaminated like how Ivan did it. But we don't have any hot water, so it's cold water showers...ewwww... And we have the landline & so that's how I'm online... Oh one of our columns on the front part of the house almost came out underneath all that weight...gosh it was that windy. If that came out, like half of the front of our house would be sagging on one side or something...i'm not even sure how my house is designed around the columns..
There is no power anywhere in Gulf Breeze. My neighborhood is entirely dark, PITCH BLACK. No street lamps, no nothing in my subdivision. In town, the street lights are out, so everyone has to treat them like 4 way stops. There's already a fatality coz a driver blazed thru an intersection. Totally stupid and sad at the same time. It's completely black in town, it's awful & scary like a ghost town... I hate it... the only light is from headlights...that is if ur even on the streets. Curfew ended this morning at noon. And curfew is from dusk til dawn due to all this darkness. The only gas station with gas is the WalMart one and the lines are ridiculously long like a snake thru the the WalMart parking lot.
Grrr....I want the power back on!!!! There were some places during Ivan that didn't get power until 3.5 weeks later... We did loose the phone line for a couple hours though. Over 100,000 Gulf Power customers are out of power in Escambia, 56,000 in Santa Rosa (my county), 64,000 in Okalossa county. So basically, we did better this time than Ivan... coz with Ivan, he moved like ridiculously slow and such a huge 'cane force field & even larger tropical storm force field; we were stuck in 100+winds for over 10 hrs straight....and with Dennis, we were only in 100+winds for about 45 mins. Plus Dennis was moving at 18mph too. So thankfully it was went by really fast. It was scary going to bed on Sat night when it was 105mph, and waking up on Sun morning at 8am and it was 145mph...thankfully Cindy's cold rain water from the Gulf of Mexico cooled it down to 120mph right before landfall.
PS: there is nothing like ice cubes on your skin...
PSS: alright, thee best news, my Ethics class has been canceled UNTIL AT LEAST NEXT MONDAY!!!! hopefully class won't be extended at the end of the semester.
So everyone pray that next storm spinning out there now doesn't hit here...out of the first 4 named storms, 3 of them have aimed here along the Emerald Gulf Coast...
PSS: it's tooooo hottttt....I can't stand it...
PSSS: Well the scary part in all of this was def when we went to bed the night before at around 2AM and Dennis had left Cuba a couple of hrs ago, so it was down to like 105 mph...I wake up at around 4:30AM CT meaning that the thing was released at 4am ct/5am et, and it had sky rocketed to 170mph...and we all like flipped out because by then landfall was projected tomorrow afternoon, but b/c of Cindy's rain had cooled the water, as it got further into the Gulf, the cold water cooled it down to 120mph THANKFULLY...