Earl F Hampton wrote: > Yea, I've got a friend at the Naval Air Station, and he says, they > still have generators on line there. Shockingly, his boat survived. > Unfortunatly, his house didn't do so well, so he said, he's living > off his boat right now. He said, on the good side his wife is no > longer complaining about the new cushings he bought a few months > back. The Escambia River flows into Pensacola Bay on the extreme northwestern side. There is a very broad marsh area, several square miles...I guess it's an estuary...and I live on the other side of this from Pensacola. To get to Pensacola side I have to cross a 3 mile section of raised causeway, bridges, and finally a high bridge over the Escambia River. It was over swept by the storm surge and there were washouts in several places. It's been mostly repaired and other than bumper to bumper traffic that artery is reopened. Anyway, driving across the bridge today, I saw several boats (some quite large) had washed up the river and been deposited hundreds of yards away from the river and sloughs, some were right side up, some upside down, but all will be a real *itch to re float. Later I saw a boat that was standing on it's stern leaning up against a house at the end of a bayou. It must have been floated up and driven up onto land a good 30 feet before being stood up against the house. Man! It's a mess down here! Eris
