Follow-up on Hurricane Ivan news:

Spoke with a friend in Pensacola, FL earlier today. She works at a downtown property management firm, and she shares some disturbing if not very somber news about the destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Ivan.

She shares President Bush visited the area and stated portions of the city looked like it had come under aerial bombardment. There are some very large buildings downtown that are no more, just very large piles of brick and debris.

To the west of Pensacola, somewhat closer to the Mobile Bay area where Ivan stormed through, there where sightings of up to 17 twisters at a time moving here and there during Ivan's passing. Reports have also come through that Interstate Hwy 10 was "taken out" in one or two parts. CNN has an aftermath photo of an interstate-trailer truck, hanging off a broken segment of I-10. Looks like it is on the eastbound lane, which is the south portion of the roadway.

Some parts of Pensacola will get electricity back in an estimated three weeks.

Out nearer to the Gulf of Mexico coast part of Pensacola, on the island, some land areas and houses are totally submerged.

Luckily there are no reports of deaths. The most severe property loss appears mostly due to Ivan's category-3 wind strength, tornadoes and coastal wave activity.

--Bennie

Hurricane Ivan.

After spending a lot of time tracking Ivan, by checking the latest posts at the National Weather Service, I stumbled upon the archive section (see below). This saves me mucho time in checking updates, scribbling out the numbers, and then adding them to my blog site. So for all your Hurricane info mojo, check out the links.

See Information from National Weather Service, Tropical Prediction Center.

Also see 2004 Tropical Cyclone Archive for historical information.

Outta-here.

Updated: 6:46 AM (PDT) 9/16/04

Greek Festival this weekend! Woo-hooo.

A summary of Hurricane Frances. All times in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

8 p.m. Sat. EDT, Frances' center position is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east-northeast of Palm Beach, Florida:
Lat: 27.0 N Long: 79.4 W Max winds at 105 mph (165 kph)

11 p.m. Sat. EDT, Frances' center position is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of Palm Beach, Florida. (The eye of Hurricane Frances made landfall near Sewall's Point, 35 miles north of West Palm Beach, on the eastern Florida coast early Sunday.)

Lat: 27.1 N Long: 79.7 W Max winds at 105 mph (165 kph)

SUNDAY
2 a.m. EDT center position is about 7 miles west of Stuart Florida.
Lat: 27.2 N Long: 80.3 W

Information from National Weather Service, Tropical Prediction Center.


5 a.m. Lat: 27.2 N Long: 80.5 W
11 a.m. Lat: 27.7 N Long: 81.2 W
2 p.m. Lat: 27.9 N Long: 81.7 W

-2:44 PM - Sis called and shares they've headed over to Aunt Ds, due to power going out at Sis' place. Chatted briefly with Aunt D. Family is keeping in touch.

5 p.m. Lat: 28.0 N Long: 82.2 W
8 p.m. Lat: 28.1 N Long: 82.3 W
11 p.m. Lat: 28.3 N Long: 82.7 W

Tropical Storm Frances, continued...
Monday

2 a.m. Lat: 28.6 N Long: 83.3 W
5 a.m. Lat: 28.7 N Long: 83.5 W
8 a.m. Lat: 29.1 N Long: 83.6 W
11 a.m. Lat: 29.5 N Long: 84.0 W
2 p.m. Lat: 30.1 N Long: 84.1 W

- 4:17 PM (EDT) - Talked briefly with Sis and J-man, since it's J's B-day. Power is still out at their home and Aunt D's place just lost power. A tree was uprooted and "took out" a room in Mrs. White's house. Kept conversation brief so Sis could conserve cellphone battery for later on. Happy Birthday Jonathan!

5 p.m. Lat: 30.6 N Long: 84.3 W
8 p.m. Lat: 31.1 N Long: 84.5 W

Updated: 7:55 PM (PDT)