Hurricane Opal in 1995
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Hurricane Opal in 1995 may be remembered most for forming fast in the Gulf of Mexico and growing to near Category 5 strength before making landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a Category 3. It was an evacuation nightmare for many Floridians.
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My parents had about 50 pine trees in their yard just north of fort walton.. opal took out all of them leaving 3 pines. All the trees fell on their house. Living in a rural area, all the neighbors up and down the road helped move the trees off their home. Didnt go to Walmart to buy stuff they didnt need.. so all the neighbors and my oarents would cook what was in their freezers on cookers & gathered water from the creeks.. lights was out for 2 weeks . Took years to remove the debris.. The yard has no pines anymore due to Ivan taking out the other 3 pines. Thanks for sharing Alan!
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Navarre, Ft. Walton Beach, Destin, Niceville, Miramar Beach, Mexico Beach. How did Panama City Beach escape that list?
Otherwise, a nice video. I have a documentary video on Opal on my channel.
My mom lived in Pensacola at the time she told me about the storm
Rode this one out in Milton as a kid. I had no idea it was this destructive.
I remember seeing Navarre beach afterwards it was pretty bad i was a kid as well and couldn’t believe what i had saw
Thank you for posting this. I survived this in Pensacola and remember driving around a few days later to see massive upheaval devastation everywhere.
I lived in Navarre when Opal hit. Stayed in Shalimar with my parents. LONG night. Navarre got pummeled.My place, 0 damage.
Navarre was without power for a couple of weeks.
The house featured in the video, in the sound, sat there for 2 or 3 years before being removed.
Thank you for the footage.
I moved to Ft. Walton Beach in early May of 95. Hurricane Erin was my first hurricane on August 2nd. My apartment was on the second floor and our balcony was quietly out of the wind. So we sat and sipped coffee and watched the stuff blow down the road. Across the street there was a gas station that was converted into a Subway restaurant. The roof over the gas pump area was being torn apart by the wind. I thought it was pretty intense. There was a lot of damage but I had no reference because it was my first hurricane. Then Opal came along. Opal was crazy. I wanted to stay at the apartment and watch like we did last time but a 'next of kin' insisted we drive our two crappy cars out of town in the evacuation. We were stuck in the traffic and both cars had radiator leaks and the kept overheating. We were running out of water. The ‘next of kin’ kept breaking down. It was hell for pretty much the entire day until we made it to Opp Alabama and found refuge in a church. And that story alone I could write a whole book about. Crazy times. The next day was beautiful. Sun was shining and it was peaceful. Fist chance we got, we drove back to Ft Walton and saw all the devastation. Boats and cars were strewn across the roads and in peoples yards. It was insane. Then we went and explored the beach on Okaloosa Island. The fist few stories of all the hotels were gutted and filled with sand. The pier was mostly gone. The beautiful sand dunes were pretty much gone. That was the saddest part for me. Those sand dunes were amazing! In the spring of 96, I got a temp job planting sea oats on the beach as a hurricane restoration project. That was my first year in Florida in a nutshell. Thanks for making this video!
Thanks for your account!
All the Beaches named EXCEPT Panama City Beach...we were on the Back side of the Hurricane and had extensive damage. I find it particularly strange that so many times when something is mentioned about the panhandle area...somehow Panama City Beach gets excluded...not just Opal, but other storms and Hurricanes. Appalachicola is always saying they are in the Forgotten Coast...I think PC is in the CENTER of the Forgotten Coast!
On the other hand, multiple national media claimed Panama City Beach was the epicenter of Hurricane Michael...which was absolutely incorrect.
Opal, in 1995, was the last major storm impacting PCBch. Before that, it was Eloise in 1975. Michael barely brushed the dust off of PCBch's collar. Towns to the east: Springfield, Callaway, Parker, Mexico Beach were hit HARD. Even Panama City proper got hit pretty hard. Panama City Beach...not so much.
@@Vector_Ze I've been all over UA-cam comments correcting people on this. Folks don't understand that PC and PCB are completely different cities.
@@agibitable It seems likely that residents of Miami and Cocoa face the same issue. But, it's really irksome when Panama City Beach is the hot item on media, when the damage was almost entirely 10s of miles to the east of there, at least in the case of Michael.
Although Opal was not as intense as Michael, it was enormous! Actually making landfall near Pensacola, it ravaged most of the Panhandle coast. I had co-workers in Panama City who bought "I Survived Hurricane Opal" T-shirts. Although wind speeds in the county barely reached hurricane intensity, the storm surge and beach erosion would indicate a direct strike if you didn't know better.
I have my own first hand documentary on Opal, recorded in both Panama City and Panama City Beach, on my channel.
@@Vector_Ze Oh my God, you have so many videos of my beautiful hometown in the era that I was growing up there, back when it was still a small town. I'm going to watch all of this, thank you so much for uploading.
I lived in Navarre when it hit i was a little kid though we went near Montgomery alabama but it was just as bad there will never forget being huddled in a hallway while tornadoes were all around us
I was little when opal came through. I used to live in Dothan, Alabama.
My Grandparents lost both of their ponds due to the rain Opal dumped in the area here in Enterprise, Alabama.
This is where I live. I was 8 years old
Tore Atlanta up.
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