The people in the Panhandle have been dealt a horrible blow. Right now they're just visiting their homes and trying to salvage what they can from the rubble. They're going to need some help.
Reuben Lewis, 49, sifts through what's left of his living room after riding out Hurricane Ivan in Pensacola's Old East Hill district. He and his grandmother sought shelter in a car just before the roof collapsed.
Lillie Bogan stands by her destroyed house in Pensacola, Fla. At right, her granddaughter, Connie Hendrix, is helped down by Connie's boyfriend, Ken Shelby.
A news crew videotapes what's left of a tractor-trailer that fell over the edge of a missing bridge on Interstate 10 near Pensacola. The rest of the truck, and the driver, are missing.
Nikki Dawsey holds a dog in Blountstown, Fla., while trying to find its litter mate amid the rubble where her uncle and cousin died on Wednesday, when a tornado spawned by Hurricane Ivan picked up a mobile home and flung it 100 yards.
Among the wreckage Devon Rabon, 19, finds a photo of himself with his mother, Mary Marshall, who was killed late Wednesday when a tornado spawned by Hurricane Ivan destroyed their mobile home near Blountstown in the Florida Panhandle.
Posted by floridacracker at September 18, 2004 07:31 AM
omg. I know they will pick up and go forward but...
omg. :(
I cannot begin to imagine how difficult it is for those that went through this. My heart breaks for them.
I have a couple of friends whose entire families are up in PCola, and they were slated to get married early next month on the beach there. Everything is on hold right now - no one is capable of making a complete thought at this time.
It's going to be a long long road to recovery. And it's going to take ALL OF US to help get past this.
Posted by: Tammi at September 18, 2004 11:42 AMMan, you have to just feel for those people after all the hits they've taken in the past thirty days.
Posted by: Dick at September 18, 2004 05:45 PMThis is what it looks like to have your life in tatters.
Posted by: Donnah at September 20, 2004 08:43 AM