Question for PCC student

[JRG39402]

For those who have attended Pensacola Christian College, how often are hurricanes a problem? Let's please limit the discussion to the weather.

 

[El_Guero]

Wellllll

I guess that means discussing SEC football is out of the question . . .

What other huricanes would you want to know about?

 

[El_Guero]

I doubt that you really want to ask a student . . . their overall experience of four years could have been good or bad - since hurricane weather is like that.

You probably want a life long veteran - like a farmer that makes his living off of knowing how bad or good it has really been.

Or you can check out the Tribune article.

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

For those who have attended Pensacola Christian College, how often are hurricanes a problem? Let's please limit the discussion to the weather.

My daughter was there for four years (2002-2006). The only problem was Ivan who hit PCC just about head on. There is a huge debate about how it was handled, but there were no students injured as a result of the storm.

 

[dh1948]

Just Curious

Wellllll

I guess that means discussing SEC football is out of the question . . .

What other huricanes would you want to know about?

What team in the SEC is known as the Hurricanes??

By the way, P'cola was devastated by Ivan. The recovery process has been slow but steady. It is now mostly business as usual.

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

By the way, P'cola was devastated by Ivan. The recovery process has been slow but steady. It is now mostly business as usual.

I was there in May. The campus looks splendid. I did notice some of the scars of the storm in the city.

I was impressed that despite all of the prophets of doom classes were only cancelled for a couple of days. My daughter went back to Alabama on Friday after the Thursday and I think they were back in class on Tuesday or Wednesday.

I am not a big PCC fan. Would not be in favour of my other kids going there, but IMHO they did a fantastic job with Ivan and its aftermath.

 

[Paul33]

I was going to say that there are bigger problems than hurricanes to worry about, but this was only supposed to be a weather related thread.

C4K, could you PM me and tell me why you are not a big fan and wouldn't want your other kids to go there? Thanks in advance. I'm a pastor and this information is helpful.

 

[El_Guero]

I was going to say that there are bigger problems than hurricanes to worry about, but this was only supposed to be a weather related thread.
C4K, could you PM me and tell me why you are not a big fan and wouldn't want your other kids to go there? Thanks in advance. I'm a pastor and this information is helpful.

True, but the poster is from the vicinity . . .

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

Apologies for any of my comments which may have been taken as off topic. Mods feel free to delete or edit any of my posts.

 

[El_Guero]

http://www.hurricanecity.com/city/pensacola.htm

baker,Florence,flossy,debbie,irene,eloise,frederic,elena,juan,alberto,erin,opal,Danny,Helene, Hanna,Ivan,Arlene,Dennis,

How often this area gets affected?
brushed or hit every 2.93 years

Average years between direct hurricane hits.(usually within 40 miles to include small hurricanes)
(17h)once every 7.94 years

Statistically when this area should be affected next
affected in 2005

Last affected by
2005 July 10th Hurricane Dennis hit with 120mph winds but most of Pensacola feels 100mph as worst conditions arrive in Navvare bch. Santa Rosa County, which took a straight hit from the eye of the hurricane, has the most damage. The courthouse had its roof blown off and the Santa Rosa and the causeway at Navarre Beach flooded. Pensacola downtown did not suffer substantial damage, compared to other areas. Several homes and business were damaged at Pensacola Beach and numerous power lines were knocked down. The wind blew off the roof of Crabs We Got ’Em, a restaurant.

This areas hurricane past
1877 80mph sept 19th
1882 sept 9th 13 million dollars damage many lives taken 115mph
1896 well to east but winds here still over hurricane force harms vessels
Nov 1906 a hurricane well to the west causes a 10 ft storm surge here causing heavy damage to coastal areas 34 killed
1911 80mph aug 11,
1916 a hurricane well to the west causes winds here over 100mph & a 10 ft storm surge july 5th
1916 Oct 18th a similar path to Opal 1995 115mph winds at landfall
1917 105mph bar 28.50,just east
1926 tides of 9.5ft with a cat 3 100mph winds for over 24 hrs press 28.56almost every pier & boat destroyed. Newspaper headline
1936 90mph July 31
aug 30,1950 Baker a 5.5ft s.s with a cat 1 gusts to 100mph
1956 hurricane Flossy sept 24th 30 miles to south with 80mph winds causing minor damage here.Pensacola vaval air station 64mph sustained gusts to 88mph press 28.93
1979 hurricane Frederic sept 12th just west of here with 130mph winds95mph winds here causes suprising damage to coastal structures by a 8 ft storm surge 515 homes left uninhabitable. Newspaper headline
1985 hurricane Elena over 50 miles to the south moving towards mississippi causes gusts of 92mph here. Police station 70 ft high 123mph
1995 erin 85mph bar 28.76 inch moderate danage with some coastal homes having roofs blown off. Newspaper headline
1995 2nd hurricane to affect this area this season Opal hits just east of here with 125mph winds after earlier having winds of 150mph barometer 27.86 at landfall at least half of the homes destroyed on pensacola beach ,all hotels damaged, Newspaper headline | Newspaper headline2 | more on Hurricane Opal here
2004 ,sept 16th very early morning,Hurricane Ivan passes approx 20 miles to the west with 130mph winds moving NNE over Eastern Alabama with Ivan having a wind field approx 85 miles out.Heavy beach damage,heavy flooding all around Pensacola. 54 dead with 29 as a direct result,damage over 14 billion in the U.S. In Santa rosa county 1,064 homes destroyed.In Escambia county over 6,000 lost.Seven oil platforms offshore destryed.108mph at the Pensacola Naval Air Station,In the 200,000-acre Blackwater Forest, just east of Pensacola in the western Florida panhandle, more than 1.5 million board feet of timber were downed across 185,000 acres. .We would like to commend Kenneth Lamb of WCOA radio in Pensacola. Kenneth has a two radio shows on weekends in the mornings. Kenneth contacted Jim Williams of hurricanecity to be a guest on his shows "13" days before Ivan hit Pensacola. Kenneth Lamb insisted that Ivan would be a threat to Pensacola and those shows brought awareness to this potential disaster. Kenneth had jim on the show again on the 11th & 12th with the official forecast as a Big bend Fla hit. Kenneth still insisted he felt it would come in further west & we discussed what could happen.Kenneth is now one of the victims of Ivan whose home was flooded, we wish Kenneth and wcoa radio the best of luck in recovery. Great work Kenneth!! S.W sections of Pensacola had 4 people drown in storm surge.
Hurricane Ivan newspaper headline 1 | Hurricane Ivan newspaper headline 2 Hurricane Ivan newspaper headline 3 |Newspaper headline 2 | Ivan article#1 | Ivan article #2 | Ivan radar at landfall | Ivan wind swath map | Hurricanecity live coverage at landfall,part 1 (rp) | Hurricanecity live coverage at landfall,part 2 (rp)
2005 July 10th Hurricane Dennis hit with 120mph winds but most of Pensacola feels 100mph as worst conditions arrive in Navvare bch. Santa Rosa County, which took a straight hit from the eye of the hurricane, has the most damage. The courthouse had its roof blown off and the Santa Rosa and the causeway at Navarre Beach flooded. Pensacola downtown did not suffer substantial damage, compared to other areas. Several homes and business were damaged at Pensacola Beach and numerous power lines were knocked down. The wind blew off the roof of Crabs We Got ’Em, a restaurant.Official highest gust in Pensacola was at tower FCMP at 93mph

 

[El_Guero]

You might want to add hurricanes like camille that almost hit pensacola and killed 5,000 people . . .

Andrew . . .

Donna . . .

Hugo . . . (a 'smaller' one that did a lot of damage )



I was 820 - 880 miles away . . . and I remember a few of these . . . did I say a few - I remember all of them . . . the one I slept through was bigger than andrew, hugo, and might have been bigger than camille . . .