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